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A little mood music for Saturday night. Along with an absurd realization that I haven’t heard anything earth-shatteringly new in the last few years. At a certain age, you discover new bands by the week. Like how in one summer, Janis Joplin and Steely Dan became more than just names. Not to say I don’t [...]
Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Music, Film and Art, Rants and Rambles, Self | 9 Comments »
They’re in Ayodhya. In this very holy city, they smear everything on their foreheads. The guide (for tourists and pilgrims) points to a slab. “Here, Sita made rotis for Rama.”. She wonders if Rama liked his rotis fluffy. And round. Perfectly Round. If like her, Sita too let her eyes rest on the gentle curves [...]
Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Photographs, Poetry and Fiction | 20 Comments »
He tells her that she must keep good company. For names are ruined thus. Without warning. Which is why, nobody names their daughter after the woman who sent a good man to his exile. Even if, it was only her confidante, who started it all. The corruption of Kaikeyi, not her own doing, has now [...]
Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Poetry and Fiction | 25 Comments »
Their bags and backs face me, I can only hear parts of whispers. One pint down. The other half drunk. The woman on the left attempts a SWOT analysis of a potential love affair. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and those terrible invisible threats. His genes are good, but perhaps there is a history of high and [...]
Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Photographs, Poetry and Fiction | 9 Comments »
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