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• homistan

  i’m an alien, i’m a legal(?) alien, i’m an….

  08.07.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  What follows is the uncut version of an article i wrote recently about a hotel. the hotel is in Jangpura/Bhogal, a locality where I’ve been living for just over a year now. It’s not the usual CM style, but it says something about the city and its hidden histories, and its (even more hidden) traditions [...]

• homistan, imperial watch, talkies

  Pandy’s Hornpipes

  08.01.05 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  The intellectual level of HT City, the no-brain supplement of a rather no brain paper, the Hindustan Times, went up many notches yesterday. They actually had a sort of debate on Empire, history, myth and representation on their front page (instead of a model saying that s/he loves reading ñ s/he just couldnít put [...]

• homistan, imperial watch

  i read the news today, oh boy…

  07.31.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Itís been one hell of a week. Or is it two. Or just ten days?
  Sense of time warped by too many late nights. Have been shaken out of my long hibernation from blogging by the enormity of the disasters and calamities that have been hitting the News.
  Gurgaon sees the worst police brutality against labour [...]

• homistan

  And these boots are made for walkin’…

  06.01.05 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I have been sneakily meaning to disrupt Empire Week with a little meditation on walking as a mode of subaltern research for weeks now…
  On second thoughts, it really isn’t that much of a disruption. after all, who defeats the Galactic Empire but Luke Sky-walker… (aaghhh! that was terrible… I think i’m going to be [...]

• homistan

  Have a Blast at the Movies

  05.25.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  I am supposed to be researching film distribution networks in Delhi. So what is my take on the two blasts that have happened, perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not - at theatres showing Jo Bole So Nihal?
  In many ways, it seems like a circle of sorts being completed. The frisking and security checking that [...]

• talkies

  main course - in response to saladin dressing

  05.19.05 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Let me say it people, even at the risk of eternal damnation. I liked Kingdom of Heaven.
  I even liked Orlando Bloom’s second assay as a blacksmith. Has everyone forgotten ‘Pirates of the Carribean’ already?
  So am I, like Saladin, now destined to be a heathen in Limbo?
  What I like about the film [...]