This post made me laugh for a full five minutes. Go read. Pay special attention to the visual aids.
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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LOL!
The Evil Gora, smuggling and the 80s
If you’ve seen enough films through the 80s – you need no visual introduction to this man. Big, muscled and bald, this guy was our Evil Gora archetype. This guy slid into various roles with incredible ease. Evil Smuggler who wanted to destroy India. Evil Bodyguard who could chew through the arsenals of small desi [...]
Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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Fiction Fragment: Her Hair
She didn’t have a hairy head when she was born. Her parents were suitably scared. But after her first and only tonsure, her hair grew out dark and thick. Like all good mothers, hers obsessed about her hair. Her pride and joy was heavy and mostly oily. Her mother oiled it everyday. Her hair [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Photographs, Poetry and Fiction | 13 Comments »
On parakeets in London
Who would have thought you’d find the startling green of parakeets in London? I thought I saw some near Hyde Park but blamed it on the July sun. Or homesickness. But wandering through the Kyoto Gardens at Holland Park with rr, I thought I heard parakeets. I dismissed it. But as we wandered into an [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: London, Photographs | 11 Comments »
A mid-morning memory
Saturday mid-morning, a sudden rush of energy. The house feels like it’s been drowned in dust. Despite how I romanticized the far-away firang lands as being relatively dust-free, two days without dusting results in a gossamer layer of dust. I dust and sneeze. The unwashed utensils mock me in the sink, and are cleaned. The [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Family and Friends, Photographs, Self | 19 Comments »
Poem: An Ordinary Affair
Such was his pain. To be cheated
by a woman so ordinary. He wished
he could call her an adulteress.
No flames were licking lamps, and
they drank fruit juice. Two glasses.
He wishes the woman had chosen an
affair more passionate. If only she
had shinier hair. Or sat up all night
talking of Rumi to her lover. He [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Photographs, Poetry and Fiction | 10 Comments »
First film of the year – Gauri the Ghory
It says something when one of the first films you watch in 2008 is so bad that it makes you want to smash things around. To be fair, we knew how bad it was going to be. But nothing quite prepares you for the yawn-inspiring and cringeworthy film that is Gauri – The Unborn. The [...]
Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Music, Film and Art | 5 Comments »
