Arbitrary Obsessions. Cities. History. Music. Feminism. Maami-isms. Patterns. Halwa. Identities. Free Verse. The Internets.
In the end – what really counts? Intentions or actions? Or this, hidden messages in songs posted on a blog? S&G to soothe the soul right now.
When you’re down and out,
When you’re on the street,
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you.
I’ll take your part.
…
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
In the [...]
Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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Possibly my most favourite song ever. Am sort of listening to it on endless repeat. Fearless by Pink Floyd. Meddle is the one album that I fell in love with instantly. It’s an album that doesn’t really feature in conversations about Floyd. In fact, since everyone claims to love the band, one of the easiest [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Music, Film and Art, Self | 10 Comments »
From my childhood to the point I actually left home and rented my own place – we’ve moved through six homes. Well, we’re in the sixth one now. My parents are, that is. Over the years, some pieces of furniture have been discarded. They no longer fit, and the presence of two hyperactive children and [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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Kitchu and Vitchu were friends from very young. Or perhaps they weren’t. They didn’t really play together as children, or even know each other’s families. But the familiarity of the situation and the shared memories of afternoons, festivals and grandmothers provided a strange sense of kinship. They met as equals. Both of them retired. Both [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: More Words, Poetry and Fiction | 12 Comments »
Why do people from a certain city that I otherwise love make me cringe everytime they say “All of you all are fabulous ” or “You all are fabulous“, when they are talking to a sum total of two people? Where do they think they are? In the deep South of the US?
Some people [...]
Posted on October 26th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Funny, Rants and Rambles | 20 Comments »
Words: Glass, freeriding, Mumbai, separation
This was the curse of IT firms. They had offices in Bangalore. And many of those who worked in the glass-kissed buildings were from places like Mumbai and Delhi. The ones from Madras were alright. They had a right to be in Bangalore. But the others annoyed him. The girl on [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: More Words, Poetry and Fiction | 15 Comments »
I think I am going to get myself a pet monkey. This follows the discovery that no matter how much your spouse/ lover adores you, they only put up with a limited number of scratch-my-back requests. You can emotionally blackmail them into longer scratching sessions, but they can be easily distracted by the television or [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Funny, Self | 8 Comments »
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