Arbitrary Obsessions. Cities. History. Music. Feminism. Maami-isms. Patterns. Halwa. Identities. Free Verse. The Internets.
I spent some time today reading Michael Ondaatje. Ondaatje is probably better known for his book, The English Patient. But far better than his prose, is his poetry. Filled with the minutiae of relationships and gestures. I felt like reading aloud one of my personal favourites – “Bearhug“.
Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight
I [...]
Posted on March 20th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Borrowed Words, Podcast | 9 Comments »
DR flies back to India today. Uncharacteristically, I find myself wishing she was in this country for a while longer. When we got to London in July 2005, the first few months away from familiarity were unusually hard. But in a few months DR was in Reading. It’s not like we met too frequently, but [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Family and Friends, Podcast, Self | 5 Comments »
Reading out poetry is a bit addictive. In fact, it feels like a discovery of sorts. Like when you go back to a city after a few years, and refresh your memory by printing how the streets turn or how the tree was a bit smaller than you thought it was.
The poem from Ardh [...]
Posted on June 21st, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Borrowed Words, Music, Film and Art, Podcast | 17 Comments »
I am horrendously busy. To the point where every minute, I should have added about 50 more priceless words of wisdom to the project I am working on. Of course, at this point, I feel compelled to blog. You see, the urge to blog is extremely high when the whole world is waiting at your [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Borrowed Words, Podcast | 14 Comments »
I miss reading out poetry. When I was still in college, it was something I did off and on and got away with. You discover more of a poem when you read it out aloud. You end up replacing terms that you think are more appropriate. You curse the poet for those extra punctuation marks. [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Borrowed Words, Podcast | 13 Comments »
For a while now at Global Voices we’ve been contemplating if much like our weblog posts for photographs and text posts, more could be done to push podcasts from various parts of the world. Georgia Popplewell did just that – in her incredibely icecreamy nutty (which I first used to describe her voice!) voice presents [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Global Voices, Music, Film and Art, Podcast | Comments Off
With this, we put forward our very first videoblog (vlog) post. Walking today on Oxford Street, the music made by these very enthusiastic musicians had me very excited. Quick photographs were taken. I am too much of an amateur to be able to capture the essence of music onto a photograph. However – idea came. [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: London, Music, Film and Art, Podcast, Random Links | 9 Comments »
www.flickr.com
|
