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Time to pass it on

Last November I sat with Sagar through his vocal music class. He is now preparing to sing “Pucho Na Kaise Meine Rain Bitaaye” Do not ask me how I spent the night.. for a performance to be held in April … Continue reading

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Reading clubs again

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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A wish

Sagar and Sahil making sand mountains at Benaulim beach,Goa Papa, take me back to “Big foot” (The museum of the Alvares family which captures the pristine glory of Goa and has a very well preserved 25o year old house)  where I want to … Continue reading

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