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the stare | In-spyral Café
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Can’t hold the look in your eye for long. Too scared to find what’s not there. And sad that you won’t what is. You’re currently reading “the stare,” an entry on In-spyral Café. December 4, 2011 / 9:12 am. Jump to comment form. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Boston, MA, USA.
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under the influence of nothing | In-spyral Café
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Under the influence of nothing. Like the arms of a clock chasing one another. It’s a hard test. But I’ll wait, to be. Under the bright winter sun. Or a star-studded sky. Being aware of the air between our fingers. And under the influence of nothing. You’re currently reading “under the influence of nothing,” an entry on In-spyral Café. December 26, 2011 / 11:41 pm. Jump to comment form. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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because it’s not a cheesecake | In-spyral Café
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Because it’s not a cheesecake. I couldn’t breathe in water. Or run to save my life. I couldn’t ride a bike. Without giving my foot for offer. At 27, I couldn’t fall, and I cannot still. So here’s my design for a gift –. To myself, and to me alone. Here’s my offer. For the decade to close. A 21kilometer between my name. 12 laps (in a pool of any shape). A ride on a bike that moves, for a change. And fall, and fall and fall again! And if this is what really awaits…. Here I come, the third decade! Anshu Jai...
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Multiple personalities | In-spyral Café
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I prioritise things I would do, or I could do today. During the ten minute walk from the metro station. I sit and sit. and sit through, till the list depletes. And become invisible to sneak out. For a quick lunch with friends. The 7 courses of meal and conversations follow. My hands are full with the fresh paan I want and pencils I don’t need. And meet you with people you call friends. And realise you also only just met them. We share a drink. or two. or three. And find you in my house. You are commentin...
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the most important love story | In-spyral Café
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The most important love story. There are love stories and then there are love stories. In a lifetime, you fall in love for the first time. Then the second. Then the third, and if you’re lucky. Even the fourth time. Great each one is,. As love always is. But,. All these become inconsequential,. When after fifteen years you look back,. Standing next to the love of your life. It is the most important love story of my life. That I await, or who knows. Is in the making. August 17, 2011 / 8:03 am. Because it&#...
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Kathmandu | ‘No-more-disaster’ Planning | In-spyral Café
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Kathmandu ‘No-more-disaster’ Planning. The key research questions we started the mission with included:. 1 What are the key causes of damages, and what can be done to abate them in the future? 2 How can we build people’s capacities and knowledge about earthquake resistant building technologies? And yet, how can we ensure proper shelter for the displaced people before the upcoming monsoon season? 4 What are the gaps in planning instruments and their implementation? In such soil conditions, additional stru...
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End of an Era… | In-spyral Café
https://inspyralcafe.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/the-end-of-an-era
End of an Era…. Just took my last ride. On what 10 years ago, I had my first. 8216;The Blue Streak’, ‘Funky Ferrari’,. 8216;The Official Fest Car’. And ‘Mera Chalta-Firta Ghar’. You helped me record my-world’s shortest time. Of mere 11 minutes for changing a flat, after you had given. Me (AND my friends) enough practice at that. And who says you were slow, afterall. I got my first speeding ticket riding you. You’re gone today in the most unceremonious way –. For a Maruti Ritz and a mere 20K. Kandy, Sri L...
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jugaad – I | In-spyral Café
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Jugaad – I. In their book, they convincingly argue that jugaad has 6 principals :. It seeks opportunity in adversity. It does more with less. It lets you think and act flexibly. It includes the margins and is equitable. It stems from passion. Maybe there is a need to learn more from contexts that have less resources and do more jugaad – in turn giving rise to solutions that are contextual, and in most cases are more ‘green’. But can jugaad not be scaled up? Or do they already? And shouldn’t they? A struc...
