Posts from ‘June, 2006’

Monsoons are here. It has been almost 5 days since it began raining. It is lovely to see the sky in so many different hues and shades. Surprisingly the roads have been not as bad as I thought they would be. But, the quality of driving on the road is apalling. Everyone [...]

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From Dakshin Chitra on the first day we proceeded to Mahaballipuram -? I had been there as a child, almost 25 years ago. The first thing that strikes you is that? the roads are brilliant. Not a single bump or pot hole in the entire journey from Chennai. None of the suburbs of [...]

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And she did too. Lovely little necklaces, corals and keychains – by the shore of Mahaballipuram. She gifted me a necklace for taking her photograph and then proceeded to sell me a whole array of junk that i didn’t need. But, she was such a commanding persoanality and had such excellent selling skills [...]

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Visiting Chennai was an impulse. Patti just turned 83 – and I wanted to spend some time with her. Eversince I returned to India in 94, I have been promising her that I would come down and spend a week with her – but it wasn’t to be. One fine day I was sitting in [...]

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Woman at Dakshin Chitra Originally uploaded by calamur.
Just got back yesterday after a 7 day tour of Tamil Nad. Mostly visiting temples. But, on the first day we went to Dakshin Chitra. This is a museum dedicated to preserving South Indian cultural traditions. Homes have been recreated to great precision [...]

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