"A member of the working middle class. A bonafide contributor to the economy and to society as a whole, even. For the first time in my short and largely frittered life, I was going to be productive."
http://positivelylowbrow.blogspot.com/2006/04/lets-face-it.html
That's how I feel. Felt. Stifled. And this too:
"saw no reason to give up everything I held sacred (the right to loaf, the freedom to sleep till two, the liberty to watch television all day until my brain began to atrophy and so on). "
This I would have perhaps continued to do awhile, like Jaydeep continues to perhaps. If I wasn't shit scared of never landing myself a job at all. I miss the footlooseness, I do. Of not having any commitment, or responsibility. It's one of the things you teach yourself, to cultivate patience. For the sake of your own needs. For shelter, calmness. Though ever so often, you wonder if you don't want to hurl it all away, your own good, with a vicious kick (yeah, that's funny), to leave yourself completely bereft, and incapable of wanting. Why people love the desert, eschew lands of plenty, and want the aridness of not having. That dream I'd had once, of a desrt girl, and I was scared by the gleam in my own eyes. Because it didn't care to wait for anybody for what it/she wanted. I wish I could be that to get what I want.
And needless to say, I did not ask for the quoted person's permission to quote him. He goes by the name of Leo, apparently.
Bad English is my birthright
20 comments:
came back yesterday night...so feeling the back-to-the-grind blues right now...:(
yosemite blows you off man!
lovely. post all about it. can't wait to hear. y'know whether it matches up to what i imagined and all that.
Btw, am still processing the chobis, but have put up some here.
have seen chhobis. some lovely stuff, is it as beautiful as you thought? What did you do? And you love lemon green bandanas, don't you?
Have posted. Plis to check blog.
Aacha, btw, do you work with The Telegraph by any chance?
the terror the terror
yeah, the terror, ruddy.
@rim:
what made you think that?
Oh, just that I often see someone called Romila Saha covering events there.
ugh ugh, but you are supposed to be somewhere way away on the other side of the world, what do you read The Telegraph for? Don't tell me you frew up reading it, and it brings back the nostalgia and all that. It's The Statesman one grew up reading in Calcutta, so..
i mean 'grew', as you should realise
Sadly, The Stateman is well on its way to join the archives. Plus they have a most shitty web interface.
But fond rememberances I sure do have, like most Calcuttans, of CR Irani's editorials and the morning tea, but they're all things of yore now.
But why should that be a reason to not read The Telegraph?
one reads it cuz The Statesman is dying a sorry death, apart from other reasons. But you must keep clued in to events in Calcutta from other parts of the world, must you? If you did not, you would not have wondered about the hapless coverer of events.
You still didn't conclusively say whether you're actually with them or not. Thaakley would have asked for a chotto favour.
tell me, will try if can
The thing's this: a while ago, I came across this piece which I found not only quite disturbing, but also immensely irksome. It's bad photography, warped coverage and generally an overall ill-representation of the city.
So I've been thinking of doing something myself which places things in their natural perspective, a native's perspective (another friend will also prolly join).
We do have prospects for putting up an exhibition here later on, but I also would like to do a feature in one of the city dailies. Tai need some directions, as to who might be interested in such a thing.
We'll cover areas in North and Central Cal mostly, including our own baaris and thaakur-baaris too...and try to portray the pace and the ambience as we grew up living in.
If you know any fellow photographers/photo-journalists, editors, et al, who might be interested, do pass on the word and let me know.
And oh, all this's for the the winters when we go back for around a month.
Link.
i think an email id would be helpful here. saw the link. and i is it a photo feature or lekha or both that you are planning? will ask. i think we just might have place for a lekha in sunday metro: Calcuttan living outta Calcutta etc. will ask. but first arektu clearly bolo what it is that peeves you, what you want to write about, and what misrepresentation you wanna put right. so, e mail might be a faster option, thik achhe?
Can you mail here :
junkroot00 att yahoo kawm
Yes, diaspora perspective should be the general idea...but essentially through a photographer's eye.
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