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Charming evenings at Tripoli

Posted on March 15, 2009 by prashant bhatt

Here is a late evening shot of the big mosque at Maidan Al-Jaziyer of Tripoli And after that, a lovely evening of poetry with Snehi Sahib..who says in style.. “I am a chef, not a cook…An Orator, not a speaker” … Continue reading →

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Mathew

Posted on March 13, 2009 by prashant bhatt

SUNSET OVER THE SAHARA-GHADAMES-LIBYA NOV 2004 Party invitation   Last week I could not go to a party which he was hosting in his house. I got the invite on the net, but told him that as I am in … Continue reading →

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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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