Archive for November, 2004

A very Happy Diwali ….

Posted by gargi on 13 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: And Finally ...

…. and a peaceful and prosperous new year to all the readers of this blog.

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The festival of light….

Posted by gargi on 13 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: India

…. turns into an orgy of noise.
Maybe it is just me, when I was younger - the lights and the sound were definitely a part of Diwali. But, in recent years - it has been less light and more sound.
Our neighbourhood sounds like something out of the West Bank or Iraq. A complete war [...]

Little Nuggets

Posted by gargi on 11 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

The trouble with trying to run 3 lives without letting any of them collide with the other is that something has got to give. and that something is personal space. I have had absolutely no time or energy left for myself - between teaching, Cogito and Sahara One.
I have truly missed blogging. But, the brain [...]

The End of An Era

Posted by gargi on 11 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

Yasser Arafat died today. I hope that he finds the peace that so eluded him in life.
He, more than anyone else, ensured that the Palestinians were not forgotten. They didn’t become another statistic in a desire by the West to assuage their collective guilt over the Holoucast .
However, I wish that he had the [...]

Fear is the Key

Posted by gargi on 11 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: India

I was shooting for Power Trip. Our guests that day were Kumara Mangalam Birla and Praful Patel. IT was the 4th of November. and the US election results were out.
Bush won, as expected. There is nothing quite like using “fear as the key” as a tactic for winning elections.
I remember being in school when Rajiv [...]

An interesting Fortnight

Posted by gargi on 09 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

My life continues to move with all the twists and turns of a bad soap.
A week ago I was contemplating taking it easy for a few days. It seemed very likely that we would only shoot at the end of the month - the second schedule of Power Trip.
There is a complete breakdown in communication [...]