…and thank god. Not one of my favourite years, this. And yet this date-to-date construct is misleading. Some months were good, some bad. Really, some days were good, others bad. But we need our spans, our lengths, our life measured out in new year parties (if not coffee spoons). And the events of the past [...]
Entries from December 2008
December 8, 2008
Poetry with Prakriti
Poetry with Prakriti is on between the 16th and 30th of December in Chennai. I will be reading on the 20th at Vastra Kala and Goethe Institute, and on the 21st at Oxford and Apparao Gallery. I don’t know the timings yet but they’ve promised that the schedule will be up on their site soon. [...]
December 2, 2008
Horror and memory
Perhaps it’s time I talked about something else. But here is OJ tracing memories of her home:
And that one over there was my perennial threat from Nana. “If you don’t eat like a lady, how will I take you to the Taj?” And so I fed my face like a well-trained robot lady at 6, [...]
