Ranga

Evening tea in the bazaar( I should have hung a transistor radio in the frame)

I found a niche. Scenes from old movies that I can recall as first instinct and doing minimalist portraiture. These are not necessarily iconic scenes.

Here is baby Sridevi playing with her grandma (Anjali Devi) from Badi Panthulu singing Boochadamma Boochadu

My mum put her tenant's baby grand daughter's pic as her DP.

For many days I was wondering who is this person I saved as Amma

Devadas (1953), Telugu.

July.

"Fatigue" and "Corn Seller By The Beach"

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This is hilarious 😂

The DHR does not have an early hour departure at Darjeeling.

So I imagined one

April

Ghoom

Oru kattanchaaya kudichu samadhaanam paalikku

March 2025

When will they stop this? All my meetings moved to 10.30 pm

I am now obsessed with small airports with feeder services

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I need more magnets

Weekend

Bloody big glasses

Cardamom is an interesting plant. It bursts open its leaves in a flourish and yet hides its fruit closer to its roots in an inconspicuous and ignorable manner

A Mallu resort that quotes Virginia Woolf ought to have good food no?

My artwork got progressively shittier

Dindigul has a better bar scene than the pinnacle of human civilization, Chennai

Lesser crowds lesser traffic better air quality and more agreeable climate.

I think i will relocate to Dindigul

...food is better too

కారము (kaaramu)
సంబారం (Sambaaram)
ఘాటు (ghaatu)

Excuse me Mr Kandasamy
Oru coffee kudipom come with me

2025 began with a badly made coffee.

Tomorrow I shall resume my lost battle with the Employee Provident Fund Organization of India trying to coordinate between an ex-company whose HR team is nonexistent and and another company which itself is nonexistent and figure out who messed my father's name

Mohan Cafe in Durgapur, India Coffee House in Korba or Hotel Green in Vizag.

Clean floor, neon lights, formica tables and turbaned waiters in crisp white.

Smell of fresh filter coffee and potato masala lingering in the air.

The promise of fresh cocnut chutney

Leaving with q flavour of anise..

Vizag? I have similar memories too 🙂. Entire family on scooter. Watched Shaukeen in Sangeet, had lunch in Dolphin and rode along the beach from St Aloysius to MVP before reaching home

There is one good song I recall from this one. "Ghoonghat ki aad se". The other thing I recall is the man who played Juhi's dad. Regulation Mumbai Iyengar