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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
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
baul brityanto…
another year-end, another poush mela, and another bout of listening to baul-s and fakir-s from across bengal performing…
poush mela is this fair that takes place during 23-25th December in shantiniketan, with shops selling clay pots to tractors, coffee and pastries to state emporia… since high school days, one of the major attractions has been listening to the baul-s and fakir-s…
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Tags: baul, gender, music, performance, shantiniketan
me and love… at last!
there is so much warmth this world offers me… and all in unexpected places…yet all i cause is sadness… i am a great leaver… fought against myself forever on the path… fought not to leave… yet… ‘leave’ aint the right word perhaps…i dont leave…does the sun leave the earth at night? lover of sun, i […]
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Tags: k d lang, kari, love
kari and angel…
inished reading amruta patil’s kari yesterday… utterly moving…
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Tags: amruta patil, angel, kari
‘m’
recently started attending classes of a course on ‘cinema and the city’… it is a mphil level optional course for those doing mphil in cinema studies in jnu… my entry point is of course through the city part of the course… we saw the film ‘m’ today… directed by fritz lang… of the german expressionist school… made in 1931… one of the earlier movies on the serial killer theme…
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Tags: borges, cartography, cinema and the city, encyclopedia, excess, fritz lang, m, mapping, modern, urban
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