Monthly Archives: March 2009

Reading clubs again

Posted on March 10, 2009 by prashant bhatt

Reading Groups in Tripoli..He beautifully wrote of the two slogans which the Khmer Rouge used –
“Power flows through the barrel of the gun”…and ‘You cannot make omellettes without breaking eggs’
What he saw in Cambodia, he had read in Calcutta, in the early seventies.Maoist rhetoric.
As one old Bengali friend, a sensitive human being, a keen photographer and teacher
-Tirtha Das Gupta (TDG) once told me, sipping tea in the School of Fototechnik at Bhogal Delhi,
“The Naxalite movement put the people’s movements back by decades” Continue reading →

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Music at Benaulim

Posted on March 9, 2009 by prashant bhatt

Guitar at Benaulim-Goa   “Can he play classical music” I asked Ossie sir about his student Sagar, who has been dedicatedly learning the guitar for two years. “He knows the language, the base. Once you know that, you can play … Continue reading →

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Toast With Trees

Posted on March 8, 2009 by prashant bhatt

The morning sounds of a forest are so pleasant. Richshaws and horns of the city which we hear, are exchanged for the cuckoo songs and you can hear your own footsteps and crunching on the dried leaves.   Are you … Continue reading →

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