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Useful Garbage: May 2009
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All that got a second chance. Saturday, May 23, 2009. He looks into the mirror and asks - ' Do you wish to become a monster? The mirror pauses for a moment and then says - ' No, I'd rather remain a human being. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Rodion Raskolnikov, Salim Sinai, Moses Herzog, Siddhartha Choudhary, Bertie Wooster, Agastya Sen, Apurba Roy, Mohun Biswas, Gail Wynand, Abhinav Krishna. View my complete profile. Sum of Parts or Guess Who. The Old Man's Last Words. What do I Desire? A shot in the air.
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Useful Garbage: February 2009
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All that got a second chance. Friday, February 27, 2009. On a summer afternoon in the capital, the Young Urban Indian. Happened to be in the company of the Young Jhola Krantikari. At perhaps the only place this could actually happen. On a DTC bus. Their destinations are same, and for a change, they have taken the same path too. Excerpts from an unlikely conversation:. Do you think we’re shining? Well…that’s a good question. On the face of it, we are, aren’t we? Somehow, people like you never seem to look...
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Useful Garbage: September 2008
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All that got a second chance. Tuesday, September 23, 2008. My name, you ask? What do you want my name for? When it’s all over, and the whole place seems immersed in sudden, complete silence once more, I pick up everything from the stage and put it inside the store room. My work for the day is over, and I leave on my bicycle, for my home in a village just a few kilometres away. This is what I do. Clean. Assemble. Dissemble. Thursday, September 11, 2008. 8216; Jeep hi hai…police ki hai kya? This was a cruc...
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Useful Garbage: January 2009
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All that got a second chance. Tuesday, January 27, 2009. The Wrong in Being Correct. Let me take the liberty of making a distinction here, a dividing line between the ways in which we react to situations, between the decisions we might make. The reader will forgive me in my choice of words for the same, if they don’t appear to be completely dichotomous to him/her. There are two ways of responding to a given situation. One is the right. Thing – of resorting to peaceful methods of protest, of hartals.
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Useful Garbage: November 2008
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All that got a second chance. Thursday, November 20, 2008. The Booker, eh? Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger. Yes, that’s the bait. By Amitav Ghosh is believed to be selling more copies in India than this more recent award-winning novel. And that too is not surprising. For the Indians of the ‘true’ India know better. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Rodion Raskolnikov, Salim Sinai, Moses Herzog, Siddhartha Choudhary, Bertie Wooster, Agastya Sen, Apurba Roy, Mohun Biswas, Gail Wynand, Abhinav Krishna.
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Useful Garbage: Boring Road
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All that got a second chance. Monday, July 27, 2009. The house wasn’t far from here. About a kilometre and a half. But it was still drizzling, and Amir called out a rickshaw-wala. Reluctantly (as afternoons were meant for siestas), the man agreed to take him to his destination. ‘Only 20 rupees’, is what the man asked in return for his sleep, and Amir found it hard to deny him that. 8216;How are you, Puku mausi? 8216;Is Nani at home? 8217;, he now asked her. 8216;Where else will she be? 8217;, she cried, ...
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Useful Garbage: October 2009
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All that got a second chance. Saturday, October 3, 2009. Isn’t is shameful that I, Siddharth Tyebji, son of a Muslim father and a Hindu Bengali mother, neither can speak Urdu nor Bengali? What shouldn’t it be? Most importantly, education should not solely be a means to livelihood, it should not only be the process one has to undergo to earn a living in this world, it should not only mean the passing of an exam or the stamp of a degree. This has perverted the whole intention behind imparting knowledge abo...
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Useful Garbage: The Death of Familiarity
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All that got a second chance. Thursday, June 4, 2009. The Death of Familiarity. 8220;Why don’t we ever learn that all changes of place are for the worse? It’s not love for the place; it’s the familiarity, like old winter clothes.”. How does he start? It was like being in the presence of an old lover, there was familiarity but also the knowledge that he didn’t belong here anymore, that it. The place almost felt eerie, naked and abandoned. To think that not so long back, this place had been full with c...
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Useful Garbage: Ignorance, Kundera
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All that got a second chance. Saturday, April 4, 2009. I imagine the feelings of two people meeting again after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think they are linked by the same experience, the same recollections. The same recollections? April 7, 2009 at 11:54 AM. April 7, 2009 at 10:15 PM. Can we have an elongated version? April 11, 2009 at 9:06 PM. April 12, 2009 at 1:52 AM. Well i guess thats what we humans do, don't we? May 14, 2009 at 9:11 AM.
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Useful Garbage: December 2008
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All that got a second chance. Monday, December 1, 2008. Angrez Chale Gaye II. If we Indians happened to be white in skin colour, like the firangs. And if someone saw one of us walking down the street, would he be able to guess our nationality? Would he be able to tell whether we are Indian, or American or European? Probably not. And why? Is what is best for everyday consumption. Some of the best in the world, Levi Strauss is. The last word in casual wear, McDonalds does. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Rodio...
