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A sudden realization about the terminology ‘breakneck’ speed. Over the last one week, I have: 1. Gone to Delhi for a trip that lasted just about 48 hours. 2. Flown for dirt cheap rates to Delhi and back on Spice Jet. 3. Had the scare of maybe losing 250 odd books because Spice Jet stapled [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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Flashback – This is when you see the spirals and enter the loop with me. When I was about three and a half feet tall (so much easier to remember incidents and lifelines when you relate to height rather than years) and had about 14 and a half teeth, My Little Pony was dumped on [...]
Posted on May 23rd, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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Born to write, Constantly translate, and hate rhymes. Grind nibs and swallow, eat, tear the paper on which words haven’t spilled in circles, that threaten to eat you. Finding no paper, and then turned to write, lifting skirt, and on yielding thigh. Five and a half love poems, and half of a sour suicide. A [...]
Posted on May 23rd, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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Conversations between shuffling feet swollen, popping blue veins. My toes store most memories, and the instant in which the homophobia of Shikari Shambu has been deeply imprinted on the sole. And then while you were weeping tears and an adult-tree was whipping its leaves across faith, the toes curled into themselves, And I dug myself [...]
Posted on May 23rd, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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I had the misfortune of seeing Naina the movie last night. And it was a 2345 hrs show, meaning which we endured the movie till pretty late. Sri, his friend and I had gone with some hopes of increasing our cardiovascular rate (given that I don’t seem to exercise this is the only way to [...]
Posted on May 21st, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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The newspapers are full of reports on Chief Minister’s visit to the Infrastructure and Transport Project sites in Bombay yesterday. Yours truly plays a small miniscule role in the these projects. And while she is neither quoted nor even visible to the most observant eye in the reports that were flashed out, she remains passionate [...]
Posted on May 20th, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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What are your credentials dear blogger? A big almost semitic nose, curiously fast typing speed, free internet (yaay), talkative, thinkative blah blah! The ToI tells us that Shakuntala Mahawal, (Principal Information Officer) is trying to get a process in wherein bloggers would be recognized. Well. First of all I don’t like the term net journos. [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2005 by Neha Viswanathan
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