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The story is incredible. Scattered all over London are cemeteries known as the Magnificent Seven. The most famous one is the Highgate Cemetery. More than anything else, it offers a strange and creepy peek into the lives (no, the deaths) of people. The saddest ones are often the ones of little children. But mostly the [...]
Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: History and Monuments, London, Photographs | 14 Comments »
How can one visit ruins, and not marvel at the life inside. Apart from the customary mynahs, sparrows, ring doves, rock pigeons and lazy dogs, the parrots breathe a certain madness into old structures. Their blinding green colour, and screeching calls make you laugh. One is so used to seeing parrots in cages, that [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Cities, History and Monuments, India, London, Photographs | 11 Comments »
How can flying to India be devoid of drama. Hobbling on one functional foot, struck by the delay of the trains, I made it to the airport well in time to check in and buy chocolates thanks to Mumbaigirl. The way Heathrow is, by the time you walk to the departure gate, you feel like [...]
Posted on August 25th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Cities, History and Monuments, India, Photographs | 5 Comments »
I am experiencing the sort of gratification that amateur photographers hope for. In the post today, came a book that I had forgotten all about – Synagogen. Die Schönsten Gotteshauser des Judentums. Don’t ask me what that means, because I don’t know any German either. But a while back I was asked if two of [...]
Posted on July 17th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Books, History and Monuments, London, Photographs, Self | 25 Comments »
On Friday, rr and I went to the Crystal Palace railway station. Just so we could gape at it. It’s strangely old world, with huge arches and generous staircases thrown all over it. For some reason it reminded me of some of the railway stations in old towns in India. Slightly moffusil. Red bricks, with [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: History and Monuments, London, Photographs | 6 Comments »
In Delhi, as history students we would sometimes go on these wild goose chases. To try and step on the very site that some event had taken place. The ruins – even as they just that – in ruins offer some sort of a respite. They become a part of Delhi. Picnic spots, make-out spots [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: History and Monuments | 10 Comments »
Like any other city driven and shaped for tourists, Paris is abundant with souvenir shops. I don’t quite know how to react to souvenirs. When I was working in India, we used to pick up local handicrafts. But over time you realize that the notion of local is a bit ambiguous. You got the same [...]
Posted on April 11th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Books, Borrowed Words, Cities, Culture, History and Monuments, Photographs, Rants and Rambles, Travel | 6 Comments »
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