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Candles Lost in the Wind: 26/11 Rethoughtby 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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An Ode to the Obsolete — to Analogue, to Vinyl, to Polaroidby 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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Vera Okayby 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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Aarti in Rishikesh - Saffron Photograph Snatchesby 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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Abstinence in a time of Sex in the Cityby 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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To Live a Grand Loveby 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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Rickshaw Road Photos + Goa to Belgaum, Belgaum to Bijapurby on 8 Oct 2009
in Entertainment, FeaturedDay 1 – September 13 2009 – Goa to Belgaum
And so it began, a festival of colour and pageantry and good cheer. The rickshaws of the Run gathered at Colva beach for the start, nary a dry eye in the place, everyone raring with excitement and the spirit of adventure. The organisers had rustled a minister for the flagging off and he came dressed in his Sunday finery and let the chequered flag have it, and off we went.
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Pandagiri, Pushkar Eshtyleby on 30 Sep 2009
in Featured, LivingThe Pushkar Camel Fair comes up October 30th - November 2nd, 2009.
It began with a bus ride. Three of us — a lifestyle writer, a photographer and I — had overslept and missed our train to Ajmer (in Rajasthan) from where the small town of Pushkar is only a half hour bus ride. The short version of how we finally reached Pushkar (and only three hours behind schedule) involved that bus, a smaller bus and a vegetable cart.
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Twitter and the not so Sacrosanct Cowby 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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Goan Kick-Off - Cross-Country Rickshaw Runby on 28 Sep 2009
in Entertainment, FeaturedThe adventure: A rickshaw run from Goa to Kathmandu. The Purpose: Remains to be discovered. Some choice excerpts from my notes on the trip.
Goa, September 11 2009 - Goa was balmy but very pleasant, and my friend G2 who’s handling production for the project greeted me with a bearhug. I soon made the acquaintance of Gordon Torbet and Katie Campbell – British and Australian, middle-aged and young, pleasant and attractive respectively. Got in among them quite soon, celebrating the beginning of beautiful friendships with a swig of beer and then preceded to the hotel, on Colva beach in Salcette.
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