Archive for January, 2009
calvin…
calvin has almost entirely changed hobbes’ life (and vice versa too, as hobbes guesses)…
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Tags: calvin, hobbes
on ‘home’ and jack sparrow…
this post directly takes off from recent conversations with wonder woman: the ultra-speed multitasking superheroe… the discussions were respectively on the difficulties of renting an appartment and on various issues related to love and politics (including love of politics and politics of love)… the latter discussion was inspired by a wonderful performance by kabeer sumon…
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Tags: calvin, captain jack sparrow, feminism, jnu, love, masculinity, mib, munirka, politics, wonder woman
darshan…
suddenly the cars and trucks passing by become metaphors of the obstacles and perils, and the street become the river or the sea or the subterranean chasms of moria…
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Tags: darshan, delhi, journey, street, temple, vision, yatra
both above 70… travelling in a ring road bus (delhi)…
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Tags: bus, chr(c)tr, delhi
chr(c)tr 1: the bridge player
‘bridge’ is this very difficult card game… mastering it requires keeping mental track of all the cards that are getting played by all the players, and what the act of each card getting played reveal about other possible cards in the hand of that player…
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Tags: bridge, bus, chr(c)tr, kolkata
all these pics are taken inside delhi metro cars… and they tell stories of spaces and genders… and often a single pic tends to tell multiple, even contradictory, stories…
this is not documentation… all the pics are constructed to tell the stories, like any other story telling medium… although by unaware actors…
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Tags: delhi, gay, gaze, gender, space
mark wigley – quote of the day
architects are builders who theorize – articulate builders…
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Tags: architecture, quote
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