Warhol
Pink eraser: I never fall apart because I never fall together. Also - "Everybody should like everybody," and "The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting,"
October 2013
September 2013
Athiru Kaakkum by Pathayam
Original from the movie 'Sarvakalashala' can ruin my day for some time. This is more easy on the ears than Nedumudi's rendition in the original, more easy on the soul [...]
Next Gangnam is here
I must be the the last one to see this. it's odd but fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
August time, not my time
Dear Yosemite is burning inside a rim of fire, the ash may reach San Francisco, it may not. Fire is only a symptom. Where are tourists swamping now?
August 2013
Portrait of a stranger – A.K.Ramanujan
the portrait of a stranger, date unknown, often signed in a corner by my father.
Egypt
sigh.....Middle East conflict was not resolved today
March 2013
Don’t Try – Bukowski
if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don't do it.
February 2013
Two day strike – what they want
A simple napkin calculation says an average household needs to make Rs.1.4 lakh a month to be in middle class in India by global standards of consumption. So if you make less than a lakh a month, you are struggling by global standards. Shouldn't everybody make at least Rs.10,000 a month?
Special 26 – Movie Review
There was a time when there were two types of hindi movies, and both were horrible. Those times have changed. Nowadays it is tough to say "a very good hindi movie in a long time", when Gangs of Wasseypur, Matru ke Bijili ka Mandola, and to some (arguable) effect Barfi and Shanghai release in a year's time. "Special Chabbis" is the best hindi movie I have watched in the past month, and Neeraj Pandey almost exceeds expectations with his second movie. When his first movie, "A Wednesday" released, I remember saying "a very good hindi movie in a long time"; times have changed.
January 2013
Neruda, Mountain and the River
And they say to me: "Your people, your luckless people, between the mountain and the river, with hunger and grief, they do not want to struggle alone, they are waiting for you, friend."
December 2012
Our time is a between time
Michael Palmer writes "Our time is a between time; best to stay out of it.", yes totally. Yes, I was born on the street known as Glass-as Paper, [...]
November 2012
Ajmal Kasab and Amish school massacre
Ajmal Kasab who is dead now, was given due process, and legal help by the Indian state. That's definitely something Maharashtra and Union governments can be proud of. We are not Somalia or Afghanistan or Gujarat. And we did much better than USA on prosecuting terror related cases. The Indian state can some more credit for the fact that they never gave up on due process in Afzal Guru's or Kasab's case despite the cacophony of 'Bharat Rakshak's on social media.