Now that I think of it, I have spent the last couple of years of my life in a sort of suspended animation, some kind of a make-believe, beautiful, intellectual world. I have invented excuses for being transported into this other-world. I have more or less shunned the realization that a 'normal' life outside of [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
The Ferry Rides
While discussing with a friend today about things unimportant and trivial, we happened to come across some old memories. Old college memories. He, of IIT Bombay with its panthers and crocodiles and snakes and crappy food and dingy hostels and fun life in general. I, of IIT Guwahati with its snakes and crocodiles and crappy [...]
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A photographer's dilemma
Its not the latest news that the world is a cruel and a partial place to live but nowhere does this cruelity and this partiality manifests itself with more force than in the field of photography. Consider an amateaur photographer, serenely proud of the latest Nikon digital SLR which shot a thousand dollars out of [...]
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Beauty
And I moved my face closer, the rose petal, shimmering in the redness of health, bent near the edges like a child streching his arms after having woken up from a deep sleep, smelling of diving fragrance, filled most of my view. A lone dew-drop, lying confused on its silky skin, reflected my captivated presence [...]
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