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caretaker
Photo by Vivek Shah. Suvari Village, Ghimtoli, Garhwal. Feb 2012. Cross posted on Vivek’s photo-blog, Driftwood. http://vgshah.wordpress.com/Filed under: fotoos, kaphal, Teja Tagged: Kaphal shoot,...
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just another day
Teja bought me an orange reading lamp, a big one, to suit my aging eyes. I loved the effort he went through to have it delivered home without me catching on, since his pet grouse is that nothing he...
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magnum photographers
This actually happened. Though, Teja had to ask them to freeze for a moment. http://vgshah.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/shobha-set-point-ghimtoli-rudraprayag/ Filed under: fotoos, kaphal, of shoots and...
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lessons on womanhood while buying a car
If you earn a fair amount of money, you are in an equal relationship with your partner, you move in a social circle where almost everyone has a similar world view as you, you live in a city where you...
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phata poster nikhla hero (2013) – twinkle, twinkle, little star
These days when Dhanno summons us to spend some time with her, we go, even if it means driving back from Bandra after 3 hours with the CA and dreadful tax penalties, to Goregaon, and then back to...
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premchand – karma and the real world
Premchand (1880-1936) is not an author most of us pick up eagerly to read. This is a fall-out from having to study him in school, as part of Hindi literature. Dhanno said the other day, while watching...
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of flying kites and apples
In the last year, Teja and I, between us have erased entire hard disks 3 times, by mistake. There have been smaller misdemeanors on my part, erasing files, moving them around, which specially with...
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oranges and lemons, sold for a penny
3 days before Republic Day, the hawkers were cleared off the streets of Bumm-Bumm-Bhole-Land. Then yesterday, after all 52 apartment complexes around had blared Lata Mangeshkar, AR Rahman and Mahendra...
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city le lo, bhai, city ..
So while I write several words about hawkers, Teja does this. The hawker selling the city by the lake. City-wala, would we call him? Or builder? Acrylic on canvas, 24″x36″, Painted by Vivek ShahFiled...
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holi outside ftii
There were quite a few of us missing FTII like crazy. I mean, it’s Holi night, you are dancing, and you ought to be near the Wisdom Tree, not an air-conditioned banquet hall in Bumm-Bumm-Bhole-Land. It...
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in the father’s name
Reading this article http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Single-moms-quest-for-no-fathers-name-on-passport/articleshow/53246715.cms – Priyanka Gupta’s fight for a change in passport rules that...
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