carrying on from the last post, and because acd featured in a remarkable way in this.
where we got to hear about and see a great many instances of spirit photography right down from the middle of the nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. i wondered for a long time that a very reasoned and rational person is, of course, just as susceptible to losing a son in the trenches, and having no way to get that son back physically ever after, as anyone else. and that he wishes to reach out, possibly, as much as the next person does. so many people lost so much. (here, some of the much older people, for instance, never take their poppies off. some of them are wearing their poppy still, although 11 november is long gone.) and then, the 'extras', the 'ectploasm', the 'ether', the 'other', the 'one's very own' appeared beside their loved ones in the photographs.

strange leisure. but i have grown to like the strange friendship. and brilliant writing. no getting around that.

elections (which i had not thought to take this kind of interest over) and fireworks (sans any guys) over.

christ's is pretty. but to me special for strange reasons. their year.

i have read le clezio for a while and loved reading. i can't seem to be able to post the nobel link, for some reason. but my etoile errante he wrote on is now at home, and i suddenly miss it.

stranger

read.

amidst few and precious bijoyas.

r pointed out: this this and this.
makes me absolutely mad.

although we had a lovely time in delhi, and actually quite fruitful, even in the Places Where They Mainly Trust Figures.

Citizens' Initiative, Kolkata

and

Women's Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, JNU

request the pleasure of your company and participation at

Under Development: Singur


Panel Discussion on Displacement and Development

Amar Kanwar, Praful Bidwai, Tanika Sarkar

Committee Room, School of Social Sciences (1), JNU
Wednesday 10 September
5 pm to 7 pm


Photo Exhibition on Singur

School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU
Wednesday 10 September to Wednesday 17 September
9 am to 7 pm

Development Dialogues

by the members of the Citizens' Initiative, Kolkata

Tuesday 9 September
Lady Shriram College for Women

Monday 15 September
Women's Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Tuesday 16 September
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Wednesday 17 September
Miranda House

Thursday 18 September
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

All are welcome

citizensinitiativecal@gmail.com

t.

watch.

heh

Henri Cartier-Bresson a 100 ans



Venez voir

L'AMOUR TOUT COURT



le 22 aout 2008
15 h 45
AV Room, Department of English, JU

discussing.

reviews. most of the stuff isn't readily available here, is the trouble.

i never imagined i would be sorry with the olympics. this, though, is beyond shame. about the policing of the entire set of pre-monsoon weather windows, the non-allowance of all other climbers on any higher reaches while the 'torch' was being taken up by an 'assault' team, of the great 'mountaineering' at evidence in the effort, i don't want to say.

in any case, one won't find anything save the most wide-mouthed smiles here. i recall tacitus citing calgacus of caledonia: they create a desolation and call it peace.

today is a sad day for sport.

i am, of course, a very industrious person. so i was reading my old blind man, as usual, and cleaning up my stuff, as usual. when i read this.
i think i would much much rather be like the old blind man -- messed up though that may be, because of how bull-headed one may be in certain things and spend one's life urging those things -- than a good critic of the old blind man.

You cannot cross over into the world of magic until you put everything else aside and behind you—including your own desires and needs—and focus on bringing an experience to the audience. This is magic. Nothing else.

i can understand passion used like that. a function of love.

passion
c.1175, "sufferings of Christ on the Cross," from O.Fr. passion, from L.L. passionem (nom. passio) "suffering, enduring," from stem of L. pati "to suffer, endure," from PIE base *pei- "to hurt" (cf. Skt. pijati "reviles, scorns," Gk. pema "suffering, misery, woe," O.E. feond "enemy, devil," Goth. faian "to blame"). Sense extended to sufferings of martyrs, and suffering generally, by 1225; meaning "strong emotion, desire" is attested from c.1374, from L.L. use of passio to render Gk. pathos. Replaced O.E. þolung (used in glosses to render L. passio), lit. "suffering," from þolian (v.) "to endure." Sense of "sexual love" first attested 1588; that of "strong liking, enthusiasm, predilection" is from 1638. The passion-flower so called from 1633.

i am in awe.

it would be so lovely to have something like this done for the bangla. off the top of my head, i don't know nearly enough, and that's what i kept thinking.