An Ode to the Obsolete — to Analogue, to Vinyl, to Polaroid by on 21 Nov 2009
in Entertainment, FeaturedRecently I’ve been struck by an overwhelming wave of nostalgia for lost technology. From the hiss and crackle of snow on analogue television broadcasting and the swing of a rotary phone’s dial to the comforting weight of a VHS cassette, the obsolescence of these things stings more than mere nostalgia.
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To Live a Grand Love by on 9 Oct 2009
in Entertainment, FeaturedA love poem/ song, a template if you will, for a grand love - Para Viver Um Grande Amor.
Pablo Neruda was scribbling his twenty anguished love poems in Chile around 1927 – “Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window. The sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish,” he wrote. “Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” “I no longer love her, that’s certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long,” he wrote.
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Candles Lost in the Wind: 26/11 Rethought by on 21 Nov 2009
in Featured, PoliticsOn November 26, 2008, a billion people felt the helplessness and vulnerability of the kind we have never experienced ever. When 10 misguided young men held an entire nation to ransom and there was nothing the nation could do except live in disbelief and post that, in denial.
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Twitter and the not so Sacrosanct Cow by on 28 Sep 2009
in Featured, PoliticsCan a frivolous comment on Twitter be the downfall of one of our finest and most accomplished ministers of state?
Shashi Tharoor’s remark on Congress’s new austerity drive has not only raised an outcry among the layman but also among the so-called distinguished politicians of our country. In response to a question on Twitter, a micro-blogging, social networking site, on whether he would travel in “cattle class”, Tharoor responded with a rather unexpected quirky response - “Absolutely, in cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows!”
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Aarti in Rishikesh - Saffron Photograph Snatches by on 30 Oct 2009
in Art & Design, Featured, Photo EssaysAarti at the Parmarth Ashram. As sun sets. Lots of saffron-orange. River flowing behind. Young boys in orange. Lots of young boys looking devout, looking bored, tired. Boys looking around, toward the ceremony happening, a young boy reading out prayers. A throng of people facing the water.
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My Photographic Shrine to the Recoleta Cemetary by on 28 Sep 2009
in Art & Design, FeaturedI spent two weeks in Buenos Aires taking pictures of everything I saw, from the shopping district to beaches in Uruguay to a Gaucho Ranch. What caught my eye was the Recoleta Cemetery where Eva Peron is buried. I wanted to combine all the pictures I had taken and create _____ (something) that had a shrine-like quality that reflected the mausoleums in the cemetery.
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Vera Okay by on 20 Nov 2009
in Featured, LivingVera Pizza (by Tonino) has everything going for it – super location, good décor and decent service. The critical element missing, unfortunately, is good food, which at best is okay and worst is okay.
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Abstinence in a time of Sex in the City by on 30 Oct 2009
in Featured, Living
To every movement there is an anti-zeitgeist. Counter culture to the morally uptight, were the free love/sex movements that have come down through history. Caged gogo girls, decadent Parisian nightclubs, nauch bars and the free love of the flower child, are some of the few things that characterised the ebb and flow of our libido. The first decade of the 21st century is seeing a surprising trend. An increasing number of people in the West are choosing not to blindly ape the dos and don’ts of Sex and the City’s fantastic foursome. And it is surprising, when we consider the number of reports that have come out clamouring about how the serial has lead to the so-called ‘slutification’ of America.
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