The Bubble Gum Of Memories

The Bubble Gum Of Memories

Ofcourse, you remember The Wonder Years, the television series (1988-1993) that gently nudged us back into  the 60s, to the years of the first moon landing, the Kennedy saga, the Vietnam war filtered through the adolescence of Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage). You remember because the series captured not just for America but for all of us the days of our innocence.  This longing for the […]

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A Romance With Glass

A Romance With Glass

    It was love at first sight. A instant romance. There they were; suspended from a high ceiling, covering the atrium with a riot of colour. The incredibly alive forms and their inner light instantly took me in. I couldn’t stop  glancing back to take one more eye full as I walked to the suite ahead to meet my doctor, […]

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Everyday..

Everyday..

Everyday, I die a little – for I haven’t told you everything Everyday, I cry a little – for the beauty of you breaks me Everyday, I battle with demons that haunt my unsleeping spaces And pray to unseen gods who pull the strings that make us dance Or lose the chance to say or […]

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Tom Cowan: Moment Of Truth

Tom Cowan: Moment Of Truth

Acclaimed cinematographer and film maker Thomas Michael Cowan is a man of truth. Of that moment when stiff pretences and masks are peeled off and the real person emerges. So he pays a sudden compliment. Caught off-guard, I react and he amusedly observes, “See? I get a smile!” It is a game he plays often with the film narratives he directs. […]

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A Random Number Called 27

A Random Number Called 27

It’s easy to be superstitious. It provides us with the comfortable closure that we often look for. It’s easy to ascribe grandiose significance to numbers and dates that would otherwise only be notches in the general randomness of the universe’s being. In chemistry, they call that natural sense of randomness; Entropy. And Entropy makes hard […]

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Art Beat: Let Them Play

Art Beat: Let Them Play

Kanchi, Chicklet, Son Pari, Parachute, Pitcher, Gol Chakker, Chunniwala, Mickey Mouse…wondering why we are rambling about these unrelated words? Well, these are just a few names out of the 40 odd games that children of Khirkee village – a semi-urban area of South Delhi – have invented as part of outdoor playing. Nothing unique about this, […]

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