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The Real Fine Retro Cameras in The Rum Diary

Given that The Rum Diary is on my mind, I couldn’t help but notice a couple of retro cameras that pop up in the movie. Johnny Depp’s character Paul Kemp slings this camera on his shoulder and uses it...

22 may 12

Notes on Film: The Rum Diary

Over the weekend, I went on a movie marathon watching You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Fantastic Mr.Fox, Rango, and The Rum Diary. It was The Rum Diary to which I ke...

21 may 12

Thank You BBC Two

For featuring my post on Pan Am‘s retro cameras in the Pan Am microsite. It’s an incredible honour. Pan Am is a wonderful show that needs to go on. Thanks to the inexplicable ways of the ...

02 may 12

Announcing Thursday Texts

I have been thinking for a long time about doing something that would help me delve deeper into the ideas I love, bring some structure to the blog, and discipline me into blogging regularly. Ergo, Th...

30 apr 12

Lomo Diary: Travels in Baul-istan

The first time that I heard a Baul song was not in Bengal but in Madras. The songs stayed with me. I remember being surprised because it was quite feminist in tone about the rights of women in a farm...

20 apr 12

The Proliferation of –ists

Of late, I have noticed this proliferation of the suffix –ist added to a verb. I have seen it in popular ads of anti-ageing creams (regenerist), blog names (imaginationist), world music groups (the d...

26 mar 12

Pan Am & Those Real Fine Retro Cameras

Pan Am, the TV series based on the American airline has totally captured my interest. For starters, I couldn’t take my eyes off the beautiful cameras that are shown in the Pan Am TV series. Pan Am cu...

13 mar 12

Beliefs Behind This Blog

When I had just started blogging in December 2004 (oh yes, this blog goes way back), I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what to say on a blog. And more importantly, how to say it. It was thro...

01 mar 12

Lomo Dairy: Ghore Baire – The Home and the World

I trace my lineage to the beautiful city of Calcutta, which has been described among other things as “a city that makes decay seem like an art.”1 I don’t remember where I read that. But the words hav...

16 feb 12

Lomo Diary: Journeys that Lead Us to Ourselves

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unposses...

30 dec 11

Notes on Books: The Scandalous life of the Lawless Sisters by Philip Ardagh

I discovered Philip Ardagh in a nondescript bookshop in a traditional part of town known for its temples not books. I couldn’t get enough of his writing. His Eddie Dickens and Unlikely Exploits serie...

06 nov 11 1 person likes this

Lomo Diary: The Charm of Open Air Markets

Click to view slideshow. There’s something elemental about an open air market. I mean a market where the merchants sometimes shout out their wares, where the sun shines benevolently, and people come ...

31 oct 11

Lomo Diary: Theatre of Light

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge What is this need for stories? What is this need to willingly suspend our disbelief? To ...

17 oct 11

Lomo Diary: Suno! Suno! Suno!

Accidental Fame Junkie’s (that’s me!) Lomo diary starts today. I will record my thoughts on anything and everything accompanied by pictures taken with the Diana Mini along with a sometime...

17 oct 11 1 person likes this

A Dream Come True: The Diana Mini

Sometime last year an idea caught me by the neck and didn’t let me go. It was surprisingly nothing to do with writing or books, though you could say it was peripherally connected. The idea was ...

10 oct 11

Shubh Puja

Loads of wishes for Navratri and Durga puja! PS: More pics and an announcement are coming up.

03 oct 11

Notes on Books: Manikda: Memories of Satyajit Ray by Nemai Ghosh

This is not a book that screams for your attention but it gets it anyway. A compact pocket-sized book, it records one man’s close encounter with Satyajit Ray (also called Manikda). Nemai Ghosh is a f...

06 sep 11 1 person likes this

Notes on Books: The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht

 The Tiger’s Wife is not about the tiger’s wife. It’s about a story, a quest, history, and incidentally also a certain wild animal with stripes. Obreht juggles the different subplots deftly hint...

15 aug 11

The Book that Peeps into the Well

Note: This piece was also written for a column sometime early last year, which did not take off. As an event, the Holocaust is a literary well. And yet, it has not been looked into enough. So many o...

10 aug 11

Of Insects Among Other Things

Note: This piece was written for a column sometime early last year, which did not take off. I cannot let it languish somewhere. So here it is. There is something vaguely disquieting about Kuzhali Man...

07 aug 11

The Revolutions

Note: I had this dream on the night of 26 July 2010. I was rummaging through an old notebook and came across it. I am at a writer’s retreat where authors from all over the world have come toget...

06 aug 11

Notes on film: The Neighbour

Note: Written for the Samsung Women’s International Film Festival 2011, Chennai. Director: Naghmeh Shirkhan Time: 104 min Country: Canada/Iran Genre: Feature The Neighbour is an unconventional ...

24 jul 11

The red umbrella

The red umbrella, originally uploaded by *Moushumi*. I was on yet another road trip to a neighboring state. En route, we stopped at a Cafe. There was a big red umbrella under which I took shelter fro...

30 jun 11

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