Lighted up Originally uploaded by anitabora. During the Bangalore Habba, the palace looked especially pretty, decorated with lights. Last year, the celebrations happened against this backdrop. This year, however, they constructed the stage on the other end of the ground, so to look at the palace I had to keep turning! This was taken on Dec 11, after the Strings performance.
Dance like a man Originally uploaded by anitabora. Prior to their departure for the Deaf Olympics in January 2005 in Australia, Astad Deboo and his troupe have been performing in different cities including Chennai, Bangalore, New Delhi and in Mumbai. Got a chance to watch him in action along with dancers from the Clarke School of the Deaf. It was amazing to watch the young girls in action. Especially considering they couldn’t hear the music they were listening to. This one were taken during the Bangalore performance. A few more are here…
Everyone who’s been bungee jumping usually has one thing to say, “It’s better than —” (fill up with whatever gives you the greatest thrill)! If you haven’t tried it yet, go for it at the Palace Grounds. It’s on till December 19th. It’s a high you won’t get to experience otherwise! I remember my first jump. It was on New Year’s Day, 2002. I thought I’d do something different to start off the year. Along with a friend of mine (the rest all chickened out!), I went to Mumbai’s Andheri Stadium where the event was being organized. It was amazing to watch the expressions of folks as they came off from the jump. Priceless! I had seen a line of screaming, ecstatic men and women, till my turn came. It was a little scary as the ascent to the jumping point began. I concentrated on the view around the stadium as the crane took me higher. I had never seem Mumbai from such a height (it looked rather beautiful too!). At the top, the instructor, …
It’s that time of the year! For introspection. For looking inwards. Outwards. In fact, for looking in whatever direction you want. Think a little. Laugh a little. Cry a little. And what’s more. Gear up for yet another revolution of the earth around the sun! Now for the questions: Your ‘high’ moment of the year. Your ‘low’ moment of the year. Faux pas/greatest regret. Something that got you ‘almost famous’ and nearly catapulted you into the Hall of Fame. The 3 things you wanted to do the most this year, and did! The 3 things you wanted to do the most this year, and couldn’t/didn’t! Number of resolutions you made for 2004. And how many you actually stuck to. The list of cities/ places/ countries you visited in 2004. Your movie of the year award goes to… A friend lost? A friend found? A friend made? You will remember 2004 as the year of … The 3 things you really want to do in 2005. A set of 13 words that will be your keywords …
This photograph, taken by Jace in Pune reminds of a rather funny (in hindsight) encounter I had in Guwahati, when in college. There were 3 of us who decided to go for a movie – afternoon show. The name seemed pretty innocent (in fact we thought it was Bond movie) – Licenced to Kill. We should have known something was amiss when there wasn’t a single woman in the queue for tickets. But we were too preoccupied with girlie chatter to really worry. Plus, the hall wasn’t known for showing ‘sidey’ movies. Anyway, we got into the hall. We could actually feel the strange vibes from the men giving us looks. But we still didn’t realize something was amiss since we were used to men behaving that way when they see anything that resembles a female form. It started off innocently enough. A car chase sequence happened. We were actually beginning to enjoy ourselves. About ½ hour into the movie, we realised that there wasn’t much of a story and the woman who kept appearing …
Seems to be the season of plays! After Tumhari Amrita and Zen Katha, watched another one called Class of 84 last Friday. Directed by Rahul da Cunha, the play deals with a set of 7 friends reuniting after many years when one of their group dies. They realize that though they thought they were thick pals, they might not have known him (Jojo) so well after all. Especially enjoyed the performances of Sohrab Ardeshir, Rajit Kapur and Radhika da Cunha. It reminded me of my school pals… There were 5 of us, thick buddies. Out of the gang, I only keep in touch with one of them and she’s in distant New York. One is married with 3 kids (I think, but it could be 2!) and lives in Calcutta. One eloped while in school and we never heard from her again! One is in Bangladesh, the last I heard. Though highly unlikely, it makes me wonder how it would be if we all reunited now. Sunday, attended a Tamil wedding and had great fun …