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CARRY A COMPASS: Moving Up
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My travels in pictures and words. Friday, 28 May 2010. As the Nainital bus was just about to leave, we quickly boarded without any further invitation. Pic: Priyo, my travelling companion (Bibek Bhattacharya). To Haldwani, some 120 km, is a dead bore of a drive as the majority of that distance involves travelling through northern UP, which is nobody's idea of a beautiful place. Pic: The sprawl of Moradabad is symptomatic of northern UP in general (courtesy Wikipedia). And upper West Bengal and. And Yamuna...
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CARRY A COMPASS: Up and Down the Dhauladhar Day 1
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My travels in pictures and words. Tuesday, 31 August 2010. Up and Down the Dhauladhar Day 1. At an average height of 14,000 feet, the Dhauladhar range isn’t as big as the other Himalayan sub-ranges of Himachal Pradesh, but it is certainly one of the most dramatic. Rising up some 12,000 feet from valley floor to ridge-top, this serrated range looms over everything, clad in a thick coat of snow and ice that only relents in the monsoon months. Picture taken by Amrita Dhar. Department runs a new bungalow on ...
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Roma Koma: Rainy Day Movies
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A place to clear my head, and yours. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. I had high hopes for Nowhere Boy. Of every rock biopic worth its salt nowadays from I'm Not Here. This is even more surprising since she shares a screenplay writer with the superb Control. The Confessions of Robert Crumb. Demon-Woman) by the director Kaneto Shindo. It has to be one of the most atmospheric films I've ever seen, right up there with Night and the City. His biopic on Ernesto Guevara in two parts. I saw the first one yester...
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Roma Koma: When FC Bayern met India (not sparks, but chips flew)
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A place to clear my head, and yours. Friday, January 13, 2012. When FC Bayern met India (not sparks, but chips flew). Date: 10.1.2012. Venue: Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi. Rudder, Mandakini, Dipyaman, Mehul and I. And so here we are, at the floodlit, massive, yet curiously lifeless Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. My first live football match in Delhi, and (OMG! It’s Bayern Munich! 8221; followed by, “Oh No yah, I thought, like, Dhoni would, like, be playing yah! Oh, it’s only Bayern Munich. And first o...
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Roma Koma: Shahaj Songs
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A place to clear my head, and yours. Monday, February 18, 2013. Stretch out your arms. See how far the ridges run. Certain shadows in certain seasons. Lay your bed in the meadow. By the moon rock. Taut like a thunderbolt. Swing down on me with a roar. Sing, Kanha, your secret heart. We hold our breath. Slaves to the rhythm. A molten rush of light. Look, the candle. Welds our heaving shadows. Feel, my hands around your heavy buttocks. Your legs around my neck. Your voice, and mine. As we dance out of time.
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Roma Koma: June 2010
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A place to clear my head, and yours. Thursday, June 10, 2010. Songs about the Rain. This morning I was casting about for something silly to blog about, when Harman. Suggested that I do one on rain songs. I know, we're all burning right now, but it pays to be ready right? So here goes my highly subjective list. Not all these songs love the rain, but no matter. Bob Dylan- High Water (For Charlie Patton). Memphis Minnie- When the Levee Breaks. Jimi Hendrix- Wind Cries Mary. Doc Watson- Deep River Blues.
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Roma Koma: September 2010
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A place to clear my head, and yours. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. I had high hopes for Nowhere Boy. Of every rock biopic worth its salt nowadays from I'm Not Here. This is even more surprising since she shares a screenplay writer with the superb Control. The Confessions of Robert Crumb. Demon-Woman) by the director Kaneto Shindo. It has to be one of the most atmospheric films I've ever seen, right up there with Night and the City. His biopic on Ernesto Guevara in two parts. I saw the first one yester...
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Roma Koma: Binsar
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A place to clear my head, and yours. Friday, October 22, 2010. Water in the rhododendrons. Red tulips bunched into a heart. Gleaming red, snow framed, snow like the sky. When did that giant muscle into the frame? It believes it was always there. With its cornices, its cutting edge of time. With old rocks for crowns. Sea rocks, ocean rocks, once molten rocks. Light in the leaves. And a carpet below. New ones, thick and leafy, thick as life. The new leaves look in wonder. Of a ridge that taps the sky.
