What Visuals!!!

"Stunning" is gross underststement.

(Check out the pictures on the site)

Baraka - A film / movie by Ron Fricke, Mark Magidson, music by Michael Stearns, shot on 70mm, contains World, Travel, Time lapse: "Visual images include...
Tibetan monks, Orthodox Jews, Whirling Dervishes, a solar eclipse, Buddhist monks, African tribal rituals, Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, rain forests, Ayers Rock, Big Sur country, Hawaiian volcanoes, Brazilian slums, time-lapse footage of car and pedestrian traffic, post-Persian Gulf War shots of Kuwait's burning oil fields, burning-of-the-dead ceremonies on the Ganges, refuse dumps of Calcutta, Auschwitz, Egyptian Pyramids, Angkor Wat, Mount Everest, Tuol Sleng in Cambodia, Indonesian factory workers."

On one hands there's maddening city crowds, sweat shops, multi level slums....and graves juxtaposed against chicken hatcheries and then there are peaceful faces of monks and tribals. Certainly makes you question the purpose of your own existance.

Makes me wanna go back to being a tribal for sure

Why I dont go back to being a tribal...

This is a question asked to me often.

So here is the reply

“ BACK!!!! What do you mean back? Where do you think I came from?”

(Here I am being totally defensive about the fat that my birth certificate reads my place of birth as Pasthal-Tarapur which happens to be the gram panchayat with largest tribal population in the most tribal tehsil, (Palghar) in Maharashtra)

The only problem I have is with the grass skirts.

I just cannot take the fact that my clothing is my goats food, which itself is my food in the first place.

I mean imagine, here you are nicely ironing your deep green grass skirt. You turn around to the closet to look for a matching tie and GRUB GRUB, your pet’s eaten half your attire.

Also, they don’t have any pockets. I mean, where would I keep my mobile phone and wallet and bike keys?

What good is a Zingalala Bantu without his MMS enabled GPRS phone and internationally accepted payable in Dollars credit card?” Me says….

Full Duplex

Heeding (succumbing) to world opinion that the place I am staying is not good enough decided to move to a better locality

Kind of place where neighbors would never come asking for a bowl of Sugar (Not that my current neighbors did but that’s because our kitchen is not too blessed and that’s a world known fact). So I am moving to a place where people don’t peep in see the holes in your sox. (Or tell you that the noose you are trying to tie to the ceiling’s got the knot all wrong)

Anyways, yesterday, paid the advance for new house that I am moving into.  And while announcing it to a friend, told her that it’s a Full Duplex.

Then stopped to think “hey, that sounds familiar” but could not remember exactly.

Took me one full day to recall.

Full duplex is name for a communication protocol we were made to read about in 5^th semester engg. (One of those damn electronics subjects)

And THAT was a Loooong time back.

 

PS: Rudresh, please give me the exact definition.

Memories....

Memories....
Originally uploaded by swapnild.

This painting frome Devyani reminds me of Karishma and Sadabahar. These are first two mares I met at Khatu farm house.

Devyani preparing porfolio for her NID interview. Her father is my childhood dentist. Please criticize, the molar extraction was really painful.

UPDATE: Devyani's, mde it through the first round. Congrats Minu.

Full Duplex

Heeding (succumbing) to world opinion that the place I am staying is not good enough decided to move to a better locality
Kind of place where neighbors would never come asking for a bowl of Sugar (Not that my current neighbors did but that’s because our kitchen is not too blessed and that’s a world known fact). So I am moving to a place where people don’t peep in see the holes in your sox. (Or tell you that the noose you are trying to tie to the ceiling’s got the knot all wrong)
Anyways, yesterday, paid the advance for new house that I am moving into. And while announcing it to a friend, told her that it’s a Full Duplex.
Then stopped to think “hey, tht sounds familiar” but could not remember exactly.
Took me one full day to recall.
Full duplex is name for a communication protocol we were made to read about in 5^th semester engg. (One of those damn electronics subjects)
And THAT was a Loooong time back.

PS: Rudresh, please give me the exact definition.

There are two types of ...

There are two types of people I have met in life.
One who tried to prove, in various ways, that god exists and good prevails...
and other who failed to convince me otherwise...

Life Spiked...

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Said Shakespeare
And Spike Milligan documented his really well.
Reading "Adolf Hitler- My Part In His Downfall" and this one by Asha, I had to List all the wisdom from Spike.
So o here it is.

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.
Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.
I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant
I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
I'm a hero with coward's legs.
Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.
It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.
(French Translation) - Apéritif: a set of dentures.
I can't see the sense in it [his honorary CBE] really. It makes me a Commander of the British Empire. They might as well make me a Commander of Milton Keynes - at least that exists.
I told you I was ill!
Spike Milligan