- now if you wanna pose like mona lisa...i am gonna take my paint and brushes along...
- i was thinking this one would be based on intuition as well...just as everything else..
- i for the first time am having a go at your brains...
- no your sounding just right...bose...well tuned...
Looking Back: Some youngsters find it 'fashionable' to know about their city's past. Perhaps they are easily inspired by plans government representatives present every year at tourism fairs to promote Kolkata as a 'heritage' destination! Sometime back a couple of youngsters turned up Statesman House wondering whether prints of old photographs of the city were available. They went on to reveal their plans of starting 'heritage walks' in Kolkata. It was suggested that they should meet people like PT Nair and Rathin Mitra for information about the city's past. Their reply was 'interesting' ~ "Who?..." What are they doing these days? Why don't you find out!
In case you have made it this far and wondering where you are, I think I owe you an explanation. After all I must have done something that brought you here. Anyways....
About this blog - don't know what strange affliction it is to post random inconsequential snippets from the recesses of my demented mind. Its deliberate, but an accidental one. And it continues to evolve in that way. The word evolve should not be taken in a Spencerian understanding of things, it's perhaps a more random haphazard spurted 'growth' than anything else. Sometimes its just plain stagnant.
It is quite embarrassing at times to put up anything here on this blog. In any instance this self publishing exercise will always be a scarred reminder of how stupid one can be. Therefore, without deprecating my efforts further, I want to say that this blog isn't about my photographs (that's what I primarily engage in - photography), it isn't about whether the opinions I have on certain issues matters less, it isn't about how I made a discovery by the way of a film or a place I just happened to have visited, it isn't about all those things I just mentioned and also isn't about those things that could corroborate with the above mentioned disclaimers. So what is it about? Well, I think, its about the emptiness that surrounds me, the emptiness of thoughts and memories and afflictions - by the way of a person, a place, a music, a film. Not much into analysis, more into observations. More visual than literal. Although sometimes the two mix well, at other times they're like oil and water. It's abstract, and its how I feel about life. Don't try to make sense of it. You'll probably be very disappointed. So what's the point of being here? None ~ Zilch. It's very personal and very selfishly so.
Peace & love.
Siddhartha
Namaskar bhai! Apnakey ki blogroll-ey add kortey pari? Rather anumoti paoar agei korlum!
Ebar sojasuji anurodhta korei feli … amar blogti (actually I have three) muloto Kolkata niye, kintu real city-ti noy, ekti mythic Kolkata. Amar kichhu original pics peley boro bhalo hoto; ami apnar chhobigulir su-byabohar kortey ichhuk, of course with due acknowledgements and probably also a separate page used as a gallery.
Janaben, ar anumoti na dileyo amar blog-ey uki martey amontron janalum
Dear Siddharta
Firstly, I think you need to be a student of JU to be part of that club. I can enquire more.
Primarily, your photos on the city is great! I have already requested few of my friends to visit your blog.
My blog (the one you arrive clicking my name) is a hugely literary and personal one which I am planning to turn into a novel of sorts. It needs photos of Kolkata; otherwise my blog is turning out to be a faceless one. I was actually in lookout for photos, when I stumbled in your blog I thought they were brilliant.
You don’t need to distribute anything now. Do you have a Flickr/Picassa account? If you permit I might hyperlink to those images, no need of downloading/sending things. And I will always acknowledge you.
But still, that’s not an issue. Keep up with your good work. These things can wait. More later.
Hey! That means you are on the friendly neighborhood! Konodin choley esho FS Dept-ey, adda mara jabey. I will be a bit busy next month; but if I use your photos I will do that after having a chat with you.
Surely we will meet some day! Cheerio!
Surely we can meet up someday…
Siddhartha
as i suspected,
your name is siddhartha, and not siddharha. but why does your posts say “posted by Siddharha Hajra? and the comments too? is it your web name? i feel embarrassed because i wrote siddharha in my previous comment.
so, apni bangalee? arekjon bangaleer torof theke one-e-e-ek shubheccha.