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Saturday, 10 September 2022

Lessons from comedy

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I was thinking the other day about the arts and making a living doing art. And I went from there to thinking about stand-up comedy as an ...
Wednesday, 7 September 2022

Making art, making a living

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The problem with artistic / creative pursuits is making a living doing them, especially early in a career. A few, very few, will make...
Tuesday, 6 September 2022

Home

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I just realised that one of the things I miss most about Chembur, where I lived between ten years old and mid-20s, is the number of peop...
Monday, 5 September 2022

Thinking about conversion

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There are four reasons (that I can think of) why people change religions. 1. A change from within, a new belief system. Faith cha...
Saturday, 3 September 2022

Plastic lotus

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I realise how your allies deceived me With cooked-up books that I mistook for growth So take away the vikas that you gave me And send the...
Monday, 15 August 2022

An idea of India

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Whatever your opinion of the politics or policies of independent India’s first crop of leaders, the ones who had fought for independence,...
Tuesday, 9 August 2022

Less-known musical directions

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(Taking off from this list .) Alcapone: Percussion with a baseball bat. Aldente: Signal to the soloist to just noodle a bit while th...
Tuesday, 2 August 2022

World Anglo-Indian Day and all that

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This a more-links-added, lightly edited, slightly rearranged version of a Twitter thread I made, which starts here . My parents Clar...
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Friday, 29 July 2022

Women loitering

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Last night, I went for a walk pretty late; it was midnight when I started out. The roads were almost deserted, as is natural in a resident...
Tuesday, 7 June 2022

Indie bookshops in India

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Welcome to a little crowd-sourced project, mapping and listing indie bookstores in India. There are 131 of them so far. (Last edit: 7th O...
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