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Rising to Divinity from Sea Level 17 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
It was a saturday morning but the line was not long at the shoe-keepers'. Less than a minute was what it took to hand in our two pairs and collect a single token for them, in spite of a busload of sch...
The Devanhalli Fort in Bangalore 26 Jul 2013 | 02:58 pm
The 500 year old fort is in excellent condition in many parts, specially at the front section. It is six kilometers further north after the exit to the International Airport on Bellary Road, and less ...
An animal sacrifice that I allow 11 Jul 2013 | 01:15 pm
I sponsor the slaughter of a goat each year, and my conscience is clear It should be a goat, and it should be black without blemish. It should be taken round the bungalow of the planter first, with i...
The Canterbury Cathedral 4 Jul 2013 | 10:36 pm
Three swords, the length of them jagged like lines of lightning. They are the shrine to Thomas Becket. A light that comes in at a slant from an adjacent wall completes the meaning of that work of art....
The Price of Water 13 Jun 2013 | 08:08 pm
Cities have died after they've dried up their water. How long will Bangalore live? It was once supplied by hundreds of lakes, and at the time its population was a fraction of today's, and now there ar...
UB City 14 May 2013 | 09:54 pm
The terrace at UB City is where I’m happiest hanging out. It is across the street right after the east gate of Cubbon Park, and I pass the place twice daily* while commuting to work. The terrace is a...
My Spaces in Bangalore: UB City 14 May 2013 | 09:54 pm
The terrace at UB City is where I’m happiest hanging out. It is across the street right after the east gate of Cubbon Park, and I pass the place twice daily* while commuting to work. The terrace is a...
see London a bit, perhaps… 11 Mar 2013 | 08:04 pm
Cleopatra's Needle at the Victoria Embankment, London I’m seeing it for the first time, it is just as I saw it years ago in the opening scene of Lawrence of Arabia. Except, I can now see the stone t...
staying present on Tarka Rail 27 Feb 2013 | 04:33 am
The sun was out. A gibbous moon was out also. It was cold outside the train, of course, and the horses in the meadows had coats draped over their backs. Sheep sat together in some pens and in some oth...
hunting for metaphor 10 Feb 2013 | 07:32 pm
Clowes Wood, near Canterbury I went to Clowes Wood hunting for inspiration, which I needed for some text to be sent somewhere in twenty-four hours. But my mind stopped seeing in the “feels like zero”...
