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Ze dissertation is over. At long last. It has been printed. Bound. The electronic copy uploaded. Now I shall go and hand in the physical evidence of my time wasting tactics to the department. I find it hard to believe that my Masters is over so soon. Compared to the effort it took in TISS, [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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On the train, we stop at
Vizag, and they load the
dinner trays. We know it
is Andhra. My eyes water.
Everything is spicy. Every
morsel burns the tongue.
The inside of my heart,
and throat burn. I curse
the water which isn’t cold
enough. Curse you for
loving me the Telugu way.
The train would then yawn
into the next state. I now
feed you curd and [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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Mood music for mid-week late-evening suspended by strings moment.
Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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I cannot get Lali out of my head for now. It’s impossible to articulate what she meant. That it was in the mundane nature of our conversations that saved me. I’ve never spoken to a stronger person. There she was, struggling to sit with the pain shooting through her body, and she would joke about [...]
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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It’s hard to make sense of this. Wonderful, wistful.. lovely Lalita passed away today. I don’t quite know how to express grief for her.
I’ve never actually met her. When her son came to stay at our place for a day last year, he seemed surprised that we hadn’t met ever. I had my tickets [...]
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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A blog that keeps an eye on Hartals. Awesome. I suppose they would never really run out material.
On that note, the dissertation is going well. I have more or less written what I wanted to, and now am sitting on a printout, making notes in bright red ink.
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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WA, Prema and Prema’s little one – Avni went out for an Independence Day Special lunch today to East Ham. Among other things, it was Avni’s first time in a Tam restaurant. WA and I pulled Prema’s leg nonstop about the ambitious post she had written once about her aspirations for her daughter.
First off, [...]
Posted on August 15th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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