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Am a prize idiot. When I booked tickets way back in November, I assumed ten days off. Booked return on the 1st of March. Realised a month back that 1st was Holi. Idiot.
That picture is from early mid-90s. I am not in it. Possibly somewhere in the periphery plotting world domination. But I loved [...]
Posted on February 28th, 2010 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Music, Film and Art | 7 Comments »
Could you love the sea if you weren’t introduced to it at a very young age? For instance, do you have to introduce dogs at a young age, when they are still wobbly kneed puppies to salt water? Is it then that they begin chasing the waves? Running into froth and diving for pebbles?
I [...]
Posted on February 27th, 2010 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Cities, Self | 5 Comments »
Sometimes you land up at a place that used to hold a lot of awe for you. Like United Coffee House. I couldn’t really afford their prices as a student, but would try and get there anyway. And so it is that when I am in Delhi, I somehow or the other find an excuse [...]
Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Cities, Food and Gastronomy | 6 Comments »
In Delhi. Yay! Weather is lovely, have had two wholesome meals and one plate of Golgappa already. Have already started shopping and felt its consequent fatigue. All in a few jetlagged hours.
In Mumbai for a few days next week, part of a last minute change in plans. Some people to meet, and some places to [...]
Posted on February 19th, 2010 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Self | 4 Comments »
Thanks to a few wonderful friends, I discovered the link to this – Binaca Geetmala. I think Ameen Sayani’s voice was somehow inescapable when I was growing up. But things changed at a breathless pace in the 90s. My sister who’s barely five years younger than I am probably doesn’t know as much about Ameen [...]
Posted on February 17th, 2010 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Music, Film and Art | 6 Comments »
Oh, the severe, languishing irony in this story.
In short, the daughter of an immigrant turns into a rabid anti-immigration politician. And then gets tired of the country she lives in and moves to another, because she’s looking for peace and contentment. (Of all the countries you can find peace and contentment in – if it [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2010 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Marketplace and All Things Current, Politics | 7 Comments »
A rather hypersensitive part of my head gets a bit agitated when random people feel free to tell you that Asian women look hot, or Indian women are pretty or some damn variation of the same theme.
Never mind the fact that it exoticises, trivialises and does a thousand other unacceptable things in the grand scheme [...]
Posted on February 13th, 2010 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Self, wtf | 13 Comments »
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