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Tuesday, January 02, 2007. Its been quite a while since i last made an addition to the blogging world. A long while actually - after the initial sense of elation, i've slipped into laziness. But its a new year, 2007, and i guess now is a good time to forget the laziness of 06 and start contributing. So whats up in my world so far? Now this was fun! Thank you all for making it a relaxed, fun and memorable new years eve. Tuesday, January 02, 2007. Magically worth the abstenance. View's from the other half.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006. Just saw this news bulletin about night-life in Mumbai. And how its dying or actually is dead, depending on your point of view and inclination. Further, it is said that this is the first sign of ‘impending death of the great metropolis called Mumbai’ or is the last heaving gasp before it rolls over and dies. Again depending on your p.o.v. Here are my two bits of musings on this issue. Musing 1: When does a city die? When he / she stops breathing. However, listening to all the urb...
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narayan's world
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Sunday, February 18, 2007. Pigs can fly and I took a ride on one. The Roger Waters concert and what it meant to me and what it meant to be there. Firstly the songs he played. In the Flesh, Mother, Set the controls for the heart of the sun, Shine on you Crazy Diamond,. Wish you were here, Have a cigar, Southhampton. Dock, The Fletcher. Ground who obviously felt similarly. In that order) who were responsible for. Gave him a special place in my impressionable mind. All my life.I remember having an LP of...
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narayan's world: November 2008
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Saturday, November 29, 2008. Tears for the Taj. I feel attacked. I feel disturbed. I haven’t slept enough the past 3 days. I am in far away Singapore, a safe haven in today’s anytime-terror world; yet I feel as if I’m still in Mumbai, India. I have many thoughts to dwell on - the attack, the perpetrators, the sheer insanity of it. But there is one that hovers in my mind, almost like a background to my whirling thoughts these past 3 days - The Taj. Cut to many years later, I started working and was to mak...
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Personal. Provocation. Proposition. No Prejudice.: October 2008
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Personal. Provocation. Proposition. No Prejudice. Tuesday, October 28, 2008. Notes to Self : II Contrasting, Confusing, Constricting, Conflicting. Alliteration(s) or Emotions or both but they say it all! Imagine writing a book with a Title, Introduction and no body. Is that going to sell? Saying it all in. Is it a draft. may be. publishing it nonetheless! Labels: Notes to Self : II. She lives in Mumbai with her feisty 8 year old son and persevering husband. Tuesday, October 14, 2008. Vignettes of a month.
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Personal. Provocation. Proposition. No Prejudice.: February 2011
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Personal. Provocation. Proposition. No Prejudice. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. We women are crazily biased. desperate really and we are so, as Moms! Our sons get away with murder when one tenth of the crime could have pinned our husbands to the permanent tag of an ex-boyfriend or worse! A sudden peek at my boy's Patriarchal aloofness came through (rather comically) today when he was phone-tagging someone on his (toy) handset, and I engagingly asked him "who're you talking to AAdi? An inveterate wordohol...
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Personal. Provocation. Proposition. No Prejudice.: January 2010
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Personal. Provocation. Proposition. No Prejudice. Friday, January 29, 2010. And so I dragged myself out of mourning today. exactly a month it's been since Baba breathed his last! Mourning, in some ways, is pretty notional as just about everything carries on undisturbed and continues unchallenged for those who live on. It has been the same for me. It's in the intangibles! What lies beyond mourning? What's lost are the ones purely between him and me in words, in nuances, in pure telepathy! A Life and Execu...
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Personal. Provocation. Proposition. No Prejudice.: My open letter to Anxiety
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Personal. Provocation. Proposition. No Prejudice. Monday, May 4, 2015. My open letter to Anxiety. I've been meaning to write to you for the last few weeks and today, finally, I had to! Please don't mind if I come straight to the gut of the reason - You dropped in a bit too often in the last few weeks! Either just to irritate me or to frustrate the other two who live with me. Such well placed civic sense and no social sense? Arriving unannounced, without a cue? This is the net-that-works, where you can ju...
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Personal. Provocation. Proposition. No Prejudice.: August 2009
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Personal. Provocation. Proposition. No Prejudice. Friday, August 21, 2009. Long cherished and short. Venturing into Chinatown today was a mixture of deja vu and self admonition. I guess it would've been much less so, if I'd imagined Chinatown in the context of this super-clean, manufactured and manicured Singapore! And what the modern. Only seen were a smattering of tourists from western and eastern European countries, looking at trinkets and porcelain stuff, old chinese paintings, old embroidered panels...
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Personal. Provocation. Proposition. No Prejudice.: May 2014
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Personal. Provocation. Proposition. No Prejudice. Sunday, May 4, 2014. A chance to recalibrate a new living. Oh, so I was a phone-widow for a week! Why, is that melodrama? Drama all right and there's nothing mellow in not having recourse to messaging ( WhatsApp. Included) anyone and no access to mail and FB on the move! Needless to say, I also did not have access to my entire contact list on my phone including Narayan's! Although he is denying he had a terrific week free of a snoop-gating. So today when ...