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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
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
synekism…
the word ‘synekism’ comes from the greek word ‘synokismos’… ‘synoi’ part means ‘coming together of’ (as in synthesis) and the ‘kismos’ part coming from the greek word ‘oikos’ that means ‘house’… synoikismos would mean the condition created by the material fact of coming together of houses, or in a general sense, by the increasing denseness […]
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Tags: architecture, delhi, munirka, private/public, space, urban
she danced all night and suddenly
it was all about being
loved like a woman ought…
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Tags: kyla pasha, love, poetry, wall
intimacy…
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Tags: architecture, delhi, munirka, urban
wall-ing the sez…
keeping the khiladi number 1-s away from the sez number 1…
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Tags: architecture, gurgaon, khiladi no 1, private/public, sez, space, urban, wall
street worlds…
diagonal splitting of worlds… speed and risks… comfort and safety…
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Tags: safety, space, street, urban
‘abhav’
‘abhav’ is a category of nyaya and navya nyaya (systems/philosophies of logic) meaning ‘presence of absence’… so if the pot is not in the house, the nyayayika (practitioner of nyaya) will say that the absence of the pot is present in the house…
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Tags: abhav, jnu, space
cartography – geo/body/temporal
was thinking about cartography and power gained by having dominance over it… and was reminded of this picture i saw in a photo exhibition in my first sem in jnu… late 2006… oct or nov… it was titled ‘exploring masculinities’… up there is that pic…
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Tags: body, cartography, gender, mapping, space
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