#Ideastory: Artist of Reality

March 23, 2016 9:59 PMSeptember 16, 2023 4:36 PM Fiction, Map Of Emotion

He’s an artist of reality.

He shoots
seconds after the shutters click
when people aren’t posing anymore.

Only with his eyes.

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A Laundered Life

June 3, 2010September 21, 2023

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I feel like my life is being scrubbed with a very hard brush and industrial-strength detergent.

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I actually wrote this post five months ago. But instead I published this one, in its place. I guess this post felt too raw, too out-there and (fine, I admit!) I was a tad superstitious about sounding too smug-happy. I feel a lot more confident about bringing this out so…

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Photographs

July 9, 2008March 14, 2023

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I was burrowing through my closet the other day. Buried beneath the long-forgotten scarves and shawls and tee-shirts, I found an album. Just before he left for his first trip back home to Delhi, he asked me, What shall I get you from there? And I said. Yourself. Lots of yourself….

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And Today Was Better…

July 18, 2015September 10, 2023

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I ate two eggs this morning, breaking my week long vegetarian diet. The idea came to me when I was researching ‘Depression diet’ after my post last night. I’ve lived among so many people who claim depression and tried to support them in my inadequate, fumbling ways that it never…

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A Voice To Shatter The Glass Ceiling

December 17, 2020March 18, 2023

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I broke a glass ceiling of my own, as a student representing my college on the campus festival circuit.

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History

October 1, 2007March 21, 2023

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These things never go away.If there has ever been history, it will show even if you are in the same room. Yes, very dramatic. And perhaps romantic. Heartening, even to some. But reality seems to indicate otherwise. Attraction, like everything else, is impermanent. Or perhaps I’m only thinking of fancy…

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Anu says:

March 23, 2016 at 11:00 PM

And you became the artist that could capture him 🙂

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Kunal on Barbie vs Oppenheimer: Commoditised Identity: “Quite apt when you say “Does having a woman director negate the millions of girls who have lived their lives…” Jul 24, 11:10