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(I) Suppose it really was a sign that was carelessly left to float across the marine sky Or how for some time and squeezed space the birds opened up into winged patterns and shadows fell in mathematically chaotic directions, But all the while that I thought my toe was printing infinity on sand, You read [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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You are covered with dust today and the trampled, spat on and kissed by fish sand from a city’s beach. Finding you still, and then letting the inertia, make scratchy signs all over your ears. This is my muse. Much smooth now by the friction of lost years and inarticulate love.
Posted on April 25th, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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It’s impossible to not have a melodramatic reaction to Diarios de motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries). It left me awake and thinking. Both states are dangerous to an otherwise idle existence. I first stumbled on Che Guevara when I was in school, and found a copy of The Motorcycle Diaries in the second-hand book store on [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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I must I really must help my heart keep pace with my mind.
Posted on April 15th, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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I opened a bagfull of letters yesterday. Letters written to Sri over the last four and a half years, mostly in the first two years.. While technically speaking Sri and I met online, and then met in person, I used to still write letters to him. Some of this had to do with the fact [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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For years I have been very sympathetic to the Tamizh cause. A strange, intangible cause of fighting subversion. Of not wanting to associate with the the Hindi identity. Of protesting against being amalgamated into a hotch-potch Indian identity to the extent of losing the regional flavour. And yet, I am beginning to think the cause [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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So Sabeer Bhatia has come up with a new ware on the shelf. InstaColl is a small download given its promises, and it seems pretty interesting. Been doing the rounds for some time, but now is when I finally try it! InstaColl (or Instant Collaboration)had a plugin non-threatening UI I guess (strictly non-techie opinion) wherein [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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