tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105585722024-03-14T05:23:01.371+05:30Finding the Centreof things, people and places. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10558572.post-11712853529081938042014-11-23T00:13:00.000+05:302014-11-23T00:13:05.022+05:30Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra: Aug-Sep '14<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Vaan Village (Tharali, Uttarakhand)</b></div>
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<b> Bedni Bugyal (Grassland)</b></div>
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<b> On the way up from Gairoli Pataal towards Bedni Bugyal</b></div>
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<b>Met this lovely 75 year old lady on the way up from Gairoli Pataal towards Bedni Bugyal</b></div>
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<b> Chatoliye Baba yelling at pilgrims for stepping in front of the Medhu with shoes on</b></div>
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<b>In the mountains you are on your own, these people were carrying supplied worth 7 days on their backs, including firewood for fuel because the higher you the less trees there are. Just vast grasslands followed by miles after miles of barren land till the eyes can see. (On the way to Vaan Village)</b></div>
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<b>Gairoli Paatal</b> (If there is a hell on earth then this is it, seriously, I am not sure how I made it to this place alive. The climb up the mountain is extremely difficult, it had been raining, the track was full of mud, you could slip to your death at any second and no one would even know. The night we got lost in the absolutely dark forest for hours was the only time when I felt like I had made a huge mistake, thankfully those feelings passed as soon as we saw camp fires at a distance)</div>
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<b> Vaan Village</b></div>
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<b>Beautiful mountain Bhotiya Dog chilling in the last rays of sun before it set, Vaan Village</b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10558572.post-26467292648283748682014-04-09T23:25:00.000+05:302014-04-09T23:25:38.270+05:30You know what I love?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10558572.post-16938362187076390462013-10-02T20:42:00.003+05:302017-02-17T17:06:28.752+05:30Worried about Sanjay<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the past 6-8 months, several people, mostly old and always Marathi have been calling my cell phone looking for Sanjay. They call from mobile phones, pay phones and land-lines. But there is no Sanjay to be found. I have patiently and calmly told them hundreds of times that they have the wrong number. I have had the same number for the past 8 years and no Sanjay has ever used it. They are always polite. Often they sound disappointed. Sanjay has fake numbered his parents. An old lady and an old man used to call in the beginning. I recognize their accent now. They are from a village near Aurangabad. These days they make other people call but I can hear them in the background. These other people question me for a bit long, always apologizing genuinely when they hear what I have to say. The call always comes, 3-4 times a week at least. The only thing that bothers me about this whole thing is that Sanjay hasn't been tracked yet. No one knows where he is. All they have is a wrong number.<br />
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I too am worried about Sanjay.<br />
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Sanjay, won't you please call home...<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10558572.post-82042741959463501822013-05-09T01:05:00.000+05:302013-05-09T01:07:22.247+05:30Jeet Thayil: Premonition <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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the smell of rainwater in your hair,<br />
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wearing the ring I placed on your finger,</div>
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in Hindi, a lover's lament from <em>Pyaasa</em>.<br />
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Your lips, clear of the color you wear,</div>
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and our old argument still burns.</div>
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<em>How soon will you forget me if I die?</em></div>
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I swear, If I forget you, let everything die.<br />
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<em>Note</em>: The poet <a class="imgScanned" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeet_Thayil" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jeet Thayil</a><span class="keyNavAnnotation" style="font-size: 9px; position: relative; top: -6px;" title="press 1 to open link">[1] </span>lost his wife, editor Shakti Bhatt in 2007. This is one of the 10 poems he wrote in her memory. This poem and more can be found on his poetry collection - These Errors are Correct, published in 2008.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10558572.post-62781250953007022572013-02-22T17:27:00.000+05:302013-02-22T23:21:51.473+05:30My resignation letter to the Cat-Hater's club.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10558572.post-89456285230718945362013-01-22T22:57:00.000+05:302013-01-22T22:57:42.979+05:30Accidentally Packed my Bags Beautifully<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>I am reading a Hindi translation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashapoorna_Devi" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Smt. Ashapoorna Devi</a>'s Bengali novel '<em>Swarnlata</em>' (Gyanpeeth Paperback). It is the second book in her greatest literary work – the <em>Pratham Patishuti</em> Trilogy. The books cover the lives of three generations of middle class women in pre independence India. Given below is an excerpt from ‘<em>Swarnlata</em>’, she is the <em>manjhli bahu</em> in a <em>bhadra</em> bengali family, at a time in history where it is frowned upon for women to read books Swarnlata can’t stop reading. Much to the chagrin of her family, Swanlata is educated, fearless and not afraid to speak her mind. The other members of her family struggle to understand her ways and are pretty much convinced she is mental because she talks back and tries to reason with them. The excerpt below is from a chapter about the men of the family and the company they keep. Every Sunday of the week is slated for endless rounds of gambling for Swarn’s husband, his 3 brothers and their extended circle of friends. On these days, the women and children of the family are reduced to mere servants, serving the men tobacco chillums, paan, drinks and non-stop snacks all day. These men think nothing of the women in their lives, they hold insincere allegiance to their mothers, are dismissive of the wives and sisters and indifferent towards the children. We can’t really blame them for having a limited world view because like the women, they too are a function of the society they were born in, a society which is intensely patriarchal in every sense yet upholding fallacies of devotion towards female gods. Anyway, not to rant too much, it’s an interesting read. Give it a try if you please.</strong></div>
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पृथ्वी इनके करतलगत है, ‘हस्तामलकवत’ | सब प्रकार के मामलों को तुच्छ कर देने का कौशल इन्हें मालूम है !.. देश जब स्वदेशी आंदोलनों की उत्ताल तरंगों से उद्वेलित है, ये लोग तब घर में बैठे बादशाह-वज़ीर मार रहे हैं | उस आंदोलन की चुटकी बजा कर उड़ा दे रहे हैं |</div>
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मुहल्ले के हर घर की बहुओं की खबर ये रखते हैं और उनकी आलोचना में तत्पर रहते हैं | इस घर की बड़ी बहु को ये गिनते नहीं, मँझली का मखौल उड़ाते हैं, संझली को दूर-छी करते हैं और छोटी की अवज्ञा |</div>
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अवश्य गुण के अनुसार ही करते हैं और मनोभाव को दबा नहीं सकते | पूरा-पडोसी ही केवल नहीं, ऐसा कोई मस्तक ही नहीं, जो इन लोगों के अड्डे में काटा नहीं जाता | ये ब्राह्मण को ‘वेम्मो’ कहते हैं, ‘ब्राह्मण पुरोहित’ को कहते हैं ‘वमना’ और विदुषी स्त्री का नाम सुनने पर कहते है ‘लीलावती’|</div>
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देश-नेता को पागल की आख्या देने में इन्हे झिझक नहीं होती, परमहंस देव की आलोचना में रस लेटे हैं, विवेकानंद के अमरीका में हिंदू-धर्म के प्रचार की बात पर हँसी उड़ाते और स्त्रियों की शिक्षा की प्रगति पर व्यंग से जब-तब कवी ‘इश्वर गुप्त’ की पंक्तियाँ उद्घृत करते हैं, “अजी, अभी और कितना देखोगे, अभी तो ‘इब्तदाये इश्क’ है|</div>
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घर, बाज़ार और दफ्तर – इस त्रिभुज करघे में आते-जाते उनके जीवन का माकू जंग लगकर सड़ गया है! यही लोग स्वर्णलता के स्वामी के मित्र हैं|</div>
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किन्तु उन्नीसवी सदी के ‘आफिस-बाबुओं’ का दल क्या इस युग में निश्चिंह हो गया? आज की दुनिया के दुरंतर कर्मचक्र की दुर्वार गति की ताडना भी असल गति और निकम्मे अड्डों में वो वे आज भी टिके नहीं हैं क्या? उनकी जानकारी की दुनिया में आज भी क्या सिर्फ यही बात नहीं है, औरत की ज़ात को व्यंग्य और अवज्ञ की दृष्टि से देखना चाहिए, पान के पास चुना रखना भूल जायें तो उन्हें समझा देना चाहिए | हैं वे! वे आधुनिक नहीं है, यही उनकी अह्मिका है, यही उनका गौरव हैं|</div>
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यद्यपि इनके अन्तःपुर का भी रंग बदल रहा है, आबरू की सख्त ज़ंजीर को वही ढीली करने पर मजबूर हो रहे हैं, ब्याह के बाज़ार में दाम बढ़ाने के लिये वही बच्चियों को स्कूलों में भारती किये दे रहे हैं और, पारिपार्श्विक के दबाव से लड़कियों के ब्याह की उम्र बारह से सोलह पर ले जा रहे हैं|</div>
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इनका नाम है मध्यवित्त| यही अपनी मध्यवित्ता और मध्यचित्ता से उस ढाँचे को बचाते चल जा रहे हैं| उसके साथ चल रहा है समय का स्र्तोत|</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10558572.post-18468915921707123962012-12-23T17:27:00.000+05:302012-12-23T17:27:49.700+05:30Watch the Rain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While trying to clean up my phone I found an old video of a rainy evening in Mumbai. The file information says that its from June this year.<br />
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How is it possible that everything can be totally awesome and suck at the same time? One would think that such a thing is not possible, but it is. It is. </div>
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Here is the poem. You can download it as well. Please feel free to distribute it in any way you see fit. Give it to anyone you want. No one and everyone own it.</div>
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यह धुप किनारा<br />
शाम ढले<br />
मिलते हैं दोनों वक़्त जहाँ<br />
जो रात न दिन<br />
जो आज न कल<br />
पल भर को अमर, पल भर में धुआं</div>
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इस धुप किनारे पल दो पल<br />
होंठो की लपक, बाहों की खनक<br />
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जब तेरे समंदर आखों में<br />
इस शाम का सूरज डूबेगा<br />
सुख सोयेंगे घर दर वाले<br />
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कहीं रहता है एक कवी</div>
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वह रहता है जैसे कुँए में रहती है चुप्पी </div>
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और कभी कुछ नहीं कहता</div>
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सिर्फ़ कभी-कभी </div>
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अकारण </div>
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सादा-सा 'क'</div>
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'क' मने क्या </div>
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'क' मने क्या</div>
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सारा शहर पूछता है </div>
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और इस इतने बड़े शहर में</div>
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कोई नहीं जानता </div>
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की वो जो कवी है</div>
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हर बार ज्यों ही </div>
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उठाता है हाथ</div>
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ज्यों में उस साफ़ चमकती दीवार पर</div>
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लिखता है 'क' </div>
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कर दिया जाता है 'क़त्ल'!</div>
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मैं इससे अधिक उसके बारे में</div>
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कुछ नहीं जानता </div>
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<b>Note:</b> There is something about skyscrapers that I just love. They are clean, pristine and forbidding to say the least. Like little match box houses stacked on top of each other. In good humor and much science fiction led fantasy, I like to believe that the new city skylines are a testimony to the essential change in urban designs that the future holds. The movement in our lives is a function of change. How can we expect buildings not to. This is not to suggest that I am in any way unsympathetic to the preservation of historically relevant structures, but housing and places of business do need to evolve in what they seek shelter under. I find that there is a <span style="background-color: white;">lot of negativity surrounding the idea of new constructions replacing the old. But you only need to look and not just see to realize how beautiful they can be. Silent, monolithic and brooding. As if considering the human lives go past them without judgement. Embracing them when they choose to return. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Chawl next to the skyscraper. In between them lies the popular Laal Baugh Cha Raja Pandal Area, 2009</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As someone who has studied all her life in government schools and colleges, I must say how great it feels to see this happening. A bit late perhaps, but then again, better late than never. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is sad to see that things haven't changed much since I finished school almost 10 years ago. I went to a Kendriya Vidyalaya in South Delhi from class 1 to 12. The exact same shit was happening back then as well. We did sweep our classrooms (2 kids everyday, roll number wise), I did mind the class and teach lessons when the English teacher went to hang out with the Yoga Teacher and the teachers did humiliate and physically torture weak students.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Anyway, its high time this shit stops. <span style="background-color: white;">And like a friend of mine said on Facebook ,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">'<b>So much goes on under the radar, that just shining a light on the problem so the larger world gets wind of what's really happening makes radical changes happen. More power to the students!'</b> </span></div>
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<b>About the Photographs:</b> Garhwali people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group. who primarily live in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. There is documented evidence that the Garhwal region has been inhabited by mankind at least since the Vedic period. These pictures give us an opportunity to look into a world 54 year ago. They may or may not have been taken as part of the government documentation/census of different tribes living in the region. Regardless, they are pretty rare. Here you can see young Garhwali women dressed in traditional attire. The garment is basically a layered skirt with a long shirt and a head scarf. Though primarily black there are always vibrant streaks of color not discernible in these photographs. The traditional jewellery is made of unpolished silver and the main thing is always the big round nose ring. If I can find I will put up a picture of my mom's nose ring. It is beautifully set in gold with encrusted rubies and diamond.<o:p></o:p></div>
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