tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36328317642627708102024-03-14T20:06:54.025+05:30Nila TamaraaTRAVEL. FOOD. FASHION. BOOKS. ART & CULTUREAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911074172785075554noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632831764262770810.post-21693312703391607072015-03-16T06:30:00.000+05:302015-03-16T08:50:00.535+05:30MALDIVES: PARADISE ON EARTH. BY GUEST BLOGGER DEEPA SUBRAMANIAN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Deepa Subramaniam enjoying her holiday in Maldives</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 15pt;">I
was this person who would admire the sea from afar or sit on a cruise boat dressed-to-the-nines and delicately dip my hands into the clear blue water...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Until
I went on a solo trip to the coral sea to experience The Great barrier reef in Cairns, Australia, one of the seven wonders of the world. Even as I got into
the submarine boat, and seeing the breathtaking scenes from underwater, I
wasn’t even remotely imagining that I would be able to get into the water.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Clearly
it was a rash decision , instigated by one and
all who have done it before , I braved the deep sea and dived from the
boat which was tied firmly to a pontoon and my hand firmly holding the
lifeguard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Needless
to say, this life changing experience left me breathless and then there was
no looking back and I was officially declared a water baby…and a water
destination holiday became a lifestyle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Maldives
remains a distant dream for many even for those who live in Asia because of the
misconception that it is not an affordable holiday destination.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> Maldives is </span>frequented
by wealthy resort-goers and famous people like David Beckham and Michael Phelps
and the <b>room rates can go up to or over 2000 USD per day</b>. So for my friends who would
love to see and be seen the right spots could be the beach villas on the land,
the water villas built on stilt over the lagoon or tree villas perched above
the ground at Four Seasons Resort Maldives, Kuda Hurra & Landa Giravaaru ,
Taj Exotica Resort & Spa ,Cocoa Island Resort, Park Hyatt Maldives Hadaaha,
Jumeira Devanafushi , Six senses Laamu, Angsana, Ihuru, Shangri-la’s Villingili
Resort.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can’t go wrong on any of these and trust me, the return on investment on this expensive
holiday is worth every penny.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #444444;">At the same time, it’s just like any other destination which
has varying deals to suit budgets.</span><span style="color: #444444;"> With a bit of research, a
bit more bravery and leaving decisions to the last minute, is how you can get a
great deal. <b>Kuredu , Baa Atoll,Bandos, Angaga Island,Komandoo , Irufushi etc are
affordable island destinations </b>with nonetheless the same breathtaking beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And
my dear single friends, Maldives may be a romantic destination but please do
not let this deter you from seeing this supremely gorgeous island of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And
finally, it’s a safe place for a holiday with the awesome local Maldivian
people who just make it easier for you to have a great holiday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So
with all the basic concerns clarified, all you have to do is to book the <b>shortest
flight to Male via Kerala or Colombo (ex India)</b> and you are ready for an
awesome water adventure that you cannot forget for life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If
you land at the Ibrahim Nasir airport after 10 pm make sure you have a proper
reservation or you will be in for a surprise because the airport is shut after
10 pm and you have to book yourself into a local motel for the night until the
islands open in the morning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The
success of a Maldivian holiday is defined by the resort and the island you
choose because the resort-stays are a package deal that includes a mandatory drop
and pick-up from the Male airport, room rate and food which
is paid as an advance. So once you decide the resort you are more or less
trapped in the island for the rest of your stay..Of course they offer to take
you to other islands if you wish to see them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The
unique feature of Maldives is the concept of “one island one resort".</b> The minute you set your foot on the island of your choice of stay you
instantly become the owner of the entire island. No outsiders can enter the
island except the ones who stay in the resort and your privacy is intact.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 15pt;">The
archipelago in the Indian ocean has 1190 islands </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">renowned</span><span style="line-height: 15pt;"> for its natural
pristine beaches to choose from. Although, each island has its own distinct feel
and character, all islands are blessed with perfect coral beaches, lush
tropical vegetation and warm shallow
waters. No matter where you are ,
Maldives will never let you forget that you are in an island surrounded by
breathtaking turquoise blue water and
white sand which overwhelms you with a sense of calm and tranquility
that transports you to another world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What
I loved the most was watching the sunrise from the backyard of my own private
beach and enjoying the breakfast sitting close to the edge of the water and
never getting out of the shallow cool blue water till sunset, hammocks in the
ocean and a table for two in the middle of the ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Awesome
local food with a bit of an Indian/Srilankan influence and the daily dose of
musical entertainment at the lobby for the
in-house guests.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dive
centre, scooter driving, underwater photography , snorkeling, shark point
views, shipwreck views, night spa with kundalini rituals for tantric
traditions, kite-surfing..the list of things you can do in Maldives is endless!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> So put off that buzzing city holiday for now…. blend with
nature and see how naturally you fit into that world.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911074172785075554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632831764262770810.post-57614297417877176202015-03-13T14:00:00.000+05:302015-03-13T14:00:01.283+05:30MASABA GUPTA'S MONOCHROME COLLECTION IS FOR THE FUN AND FEARLESS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This was definitely an OMG! moment for us — when we came across this beautiful Masaba Gupta creations from the Monochrome Mania Collection for <a href="http://www.stylista.com/" target="_blank">Stylista</a>.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The cut, the flow, the structure and the contemporary prints (knife, television, typewriter and the bicycle) — Masaba had us at 'mono'. We also loved the pop of colour — yellow, pink and mint green — in the monochrome palatte. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">About this collection, Masaba had said: </span><br />
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"This is my most fearless and free-spirited collection yet, and is designed for women who represent that attitude."</h2>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, looks like the lady has hit bull's eye. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Take a look at the pieces, among the range of jackets, skirts, shirts and dresses that caught our attention... (photographs courtesy: stylista.com)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Final Cut Pallazos</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911074172785075554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632831764262770810.post-51152241317770518412015-03-13T06:12:00.000+05:302015-03-13T06:12:33.772+05:30 PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: GASTÉ IN INDIA : 1905-1910<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A photo exhibition paying tribute to the people and the magic of India at the turn of the twentieth century through the works of Georges Gaste who was born in Paris in 1869 and died in Madurai, India in 1910 — this one's for photography enthusiasts and history buffs.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">Over a century after Georges Gasté’s death in Madurai, the Institut français in India offers a new life to the photographic work of this French Orientalist painter. The project — </span><strong style="border: 0px none; line-height: 19.5px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">GEORGES GASTÉ IN INDIA : 1905-1910 </strong><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">— comprises of 34 remarkable photographs taken by Georges Gasté during his sojourn in India in the first decade of the twentieth century. And they will be showcased at the National Gallery of Modern Arts in Bengaluru</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The artist as an inspired reporter captured the daily Indian life — religious scenes, celebrations, crowds and markets. The pictures are 'strong' in its narrative, which is as close to reality as possible. There's a depiction of pathos of human life in the frames. This could also be the reason why these photos still have contemporary relevance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The exhibition also showcases colour reproductions of his paintings and a few of the letters written by the artist. A documentary film on Gasté’s life will also be screened in the gallery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Constant-Georges Gasté was born in Paris in 1869 and died in Madurai, India in 1910. </span></span>Trained from the highly selective Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) in Paris, Gasté was a noteworthy painter of his time. Reputed among the French Orientalist movement, which focused on foreign -especially Nothern African and Middle-Eastern- cultures, he received multiple awards at the Orientalist Salon in his lifetime. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pilgrims by the Ganges, Benares, (c) G. Gasté, circa 1906</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Two retrospectives of his work were organized at the Grand Palais after his death, in 1911 and 1913. His most famous canvas, The Brahmins’ Bath, is conserved at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Following a trip to Northern India in 1905, he settled down in Madurai in 1908 where he breathed his last. In the nineteenth century, while the theme of the journey to the East was most often adopted as a way to excite the fantasies of a few Europeans, artists like Gasté refused to fuel this perception – certainly exotic and fascinating, yet far from reality. In addition to the remarkable composition and lighting effects, his work presents an ethnographic interest: due to the proximity between the painter and local populations, those photos narrate the everyday life in Agra, Benares, Delhi and Madurai at the turning point between two centuries.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A Dancer and Musicians near the Pond of Teppakulam, Madurai (c) Georges Gasté, circa 1909</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sita's Terrace, (c) G. Gasté 1906</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Boatman and the Taj, (c) G. Gasté 1906</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">This spunky designer handcrafts gorgeous artisanal footwear, because she wants you to contemplate your contribution to the environment. "Are you adding to the colossal waste that is swallowing the world or are you being a responsible citizen of this world?" she asks. The footwear is sold under the banner <a href="http://pleasemachine.me/" target="_blank">Pleasemachine</a>, founded by Zaboeva. Pleasemachine is based on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">the concept of sustainable </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">living by recycling or up-cycling discarded materials. Each shoe has a unique character.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">At 16, Zaboeva went to study "light industry engineering" in Novosibirsk University, but discovered a passion for "visual works". She discontinued her engineering course — just before final exams — to attend a "cameraman course" and began exploring the world of documentary films. The journey eventually brought her to Budapest, Hungary as part of a young filmmakers' workshop. She decided to stay in Europe to pursue her dreams. When in 2007 she won a scholarship to study at the University of Applied Arts and design, she chose to study about leather. By the end of the academic year Zaboeva was making basic footwear — "flat sandals and shoes of cemented construction" — but she was hooked on to shoemaking; a trade that would later become </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">a tool to promote </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">ideas of conservation and sustainability. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">In Europe Zaboeva encountered huge piles of discarded clothing and home furnishings in dumpsters. She began collecting cast-off materials — vintage carpets, colourful nylon dresses with funky patterns, upholsteries. She was addicted to dumpster diving.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911074172785075554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632831764262770810.post-82060020016559706132015-03-11T09:00:00.000+05:302015-03-11T10:20:42.562+05:30REGGAE & DANCEHALL SINGER WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD TONIGHT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He is a Rastafarian soul; body, Indian. King Jassim is a Reggae & Dancehall singer-songwriter with beautiful dreadlocks flowing down his lean back. He is also one of the founding members of India's leading hip hop band, Low Rhyderz. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2014 saw him release a track called<b> UPLIF</b>T with an emerging Russian alt. rock band. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On Feb 6th, 2015, which coincides with Bob Marley's birthday, he released his solo debut album, <b>READY FI RULE</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>READY FI RULE</b>, King Jassim's indie solo debut album has eight songs 8 songs </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and covers reggae, raggamuffin, dancehall, bass, world and pop genres. The musician has collaboorated with </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bharath Kumar and Subtracktor from Bangalore, Mukul from Delhi, Original Dub Master from Venezuela, Zafayah of Roots Rocket Label from Bulgaria, Odory Gs from Sudan on this album. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The music video to lead single,<b> TAKE IT AS IT COMES</b>, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> was shot on the beaches of Maharastra, Goa and Karnataka. Directed by a British film maker Sal Yusuf, the video will be released in April </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jassim followed his heart to make music his life, way back in 2006. He hosted India’s first & only exclusive Hip Hop show on the radio called Party At The Shack on SPIN #44 , Worldspace Satellite Radio Network, which beamed through out Africa, Middle East & Asia. He, along with the rest of LOW RHYDERZ, became the first ones in India to play caribbean and urban music in clubs as DJ sets thus forming Low Rhyderz sound system DJs. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911074172785075554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632831764262770810.post-25993694015702158342015-03-10T19:50:00.001+05:302015-03-10T19:52:00.216+05:30TURKISH AIRLINES LOOKING FOR AN EPIC SPORTS FAN. ARE YOU ONE?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Are you a sports fan? Would you ditch everything to catch a game? Then Turkish Airlines is looking for you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you are the 'chosen' one then you get to travel — from 28th March to 20th April — to seven different countries and watch 10 sports events. Hold your breath...you also get to meet Messi and Drogba in person. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The winner will get to attend basketball, football, tennis and golf events in Japan, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, France, UK and UAE.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911074172785075554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632831764262770810.post-85594777788990875302015-03-10T08:38:00.002+05:302019-02-20T12:22:13.891+05:30THE AMAZING RACIST BY CHHIMI TENDUF-LA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Witty and poignant. Two words that best describes Sri Lankan author Chhimi Tenduf-La's debut novel The Amazing Racist. It is warm and filled </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">with pathos in its depiction of the lives of two men — a racist, cancer-stricken Sri Lankan father-in-law and a British son-in-law. The men</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> draw the readers into their lives. And unknowingly, Thilak and Eddie grow on you. We spoke to the 40-year-old author who sports a polished pair of funny bones. But before that, here's a synopsis of <i>The Amazing Racist</i>.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">The Amazing Racist</b></i><span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><em style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If Eddie Trusted, an English schoolteacher in Colombo, wants to marry Menaka, it is Thilak Rupasinghe, her orthodox terror of a father, whom he must woo. Eddie tries to connect with Thilak in desperate ways. Even after marriage Eddies endures Tilak's taunts. And when Menaka leaves Eddie for another man, Eddie becomes the caretaker of the old man. </em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><em style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But will he ever be good enough for Thilak who calls Eddie a "white bugger" and who hates the colour of his skin?</em></span><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><br style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><strong style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Published by Hachette India. Rs.399 </strong></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Let's start at the beginning. You are half-Tibetan and half-British and have lived in many countries. How did you land in Sri Lanka?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My (British) mother was born in Simla, India, as her father was working there at the time. My father was born in Darjeeling and went to St Joseph's before being sent to Phillip's Exeter Academy in the States. He was actually commissioned by Doubleday to write a book about being a Tibetan in difficult times - but he never finished it. His family left Tibet because of the Chinese.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My paternal great grandfather was a favourite of the 13th Dalai Lama. His name was Sonam Laden La and he was known as Sardar Bahadur (a British title conferred on him). He would also answer to titles such as Lord Chamberlain of the Court of Tashi Lumpo (a title specially conferred on him by the 13th Dalai Lama) Depon (meaning General Commander in Chief) and Dzaza (meaning Lord).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was born in Oxford and moved to Hong Kong aged 6 months, then back to England at 5. A year later we moved to Delhi because my grandfather died and my father wanted to be close enough to help out with the family hotel, the Windamere in Darjeeling. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whilst in Delhi, I am told we played often with Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi’s kids at Vivek Bharat Ram’s house, but I was too young to be able to say for sure whether my parents exaggerated this story or not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My father wanted to settle down in a Buddhist country and we knew Sri Lanka well from holidays; a few months after arriving my parents had set up the Colombo International School, where I was educated myself until I went to Eton College. Amongst my peers there were Jeffrey Archer’s son, James, Bear Grylls and Prince Dipendra of Nepal who gunned down his family years later. I went to Durham University and then worked in London for a couple of years before returning to Sri Lanka to help run Elizabeth Moir School, my mother’s third school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>And you are now married to a Sri Lankan...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My wife, a former criminal lawyer, was born in Australia to Sri Lankan parents, so she is a good mix of East and West. She speaks to me in an Australian accent, and she speaks to her work colleagues with a Sri Lankan accent which she thinks is authentic but she sounds like an American trying to mimic an Indian accent. We married in 2011 under a banyan tree. She was the one who encouraged me to take writing seriously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Are your in-laws in The Amazing Racist?</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sadly, no. We’re building a house at the moment so had to sell our apartment and move in with them, so it would have been a mistake to write about them. My father-in-law is the most laidback non-racist man in the world. My mother-in-law is as original a character as you will ever meet. Comedy gold. She will be the subject of my third book as long as we have moved out by then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Where and when did The Amazing Racist come to life? </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am not one hundred percent sure, but I think it was at a traditional wedding of a foreign friend to a Sri Lankan girl. He had no idea what was going on; the priest was dressed up in sarong, but wore a Madonna headset and was chanting gibberish in a helium voice. I could see my friend trying to follow what he was saying but he was doing all the wrong things, his father-in-law cringing next to him. There, on a stage in front of me, was a showcase of how different cultures can be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My father would sometimes blast his employees, whilst wearing a wig, fake nose and stick-on twirling moustache. People never knew when they were meant to laugh and when they were meant to be serious. He would terrify dinner guests with ghost stories and very rarely give anyone else the opportunity to speak. He was a real joker. He was also incredibly strong and brave and beat terminal cancer twice, like Thilak, whilst smoking, drinking and playing golf. That’s where the similarities end as, unlike Thilak, he was absolutely devoted to his wife and kids. We always came first, and God help anyone who ever tried to take us on if he was around. In fact, he always said cancer would never beat him until we were old enough to look after my mother and he kept his word. And he was not a racist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>What I love about this story is the relationship between the cranky, powerful, cancer-stricken, racist old man and the most ordinary, almost weak, Eddie -- it unfolds almost organically without being sappy and in-your-face Bollywoodish (it could've easily gone that route). How easy or difficult was it breathe life into them?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That’s very flattering but I honestly don’t know. I’m not sure if I had any ideas other than that this would be an odd couple relationship. I just sat down and wrote about two types of people I knew well. Their interactions seemed natural to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>By the way, did you go to a writing school?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have never been to writing school, but am fully aware that I have a long way to go as a writer. Thus, I take advice and criticism quite well; or if I don’t, I learn from it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>For an outsider, you have got the Sri Lankan culture down to a pat in the novel. What is it that you absolutely adore about them and what's the one thing about Sri Lankans. And what about them drives you crazy?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We arrived here just before the riots of 1983. I know the country better than I know any other; I feel like an insider who can make fun of the country, but if someone else did so I would defend it vehemently. Sri Lankans love a good laugh and very rarely take themselves too seriously; they can be self-deprecating, far too honest about weight gain and ageing, a bit sensitive, but overall just very kind. They are abysmal drivers though and old wives’ tales here hold a bit too much power over people, from drinking milk and eating white rice when pregnant in order to have a fair child, to rubbing cologne on your head if you have a headache. There are a lot of similarities with India. I also love that Sri Lanka is small enough that it makes it realistic to aspire to be the best in the country at something. Aged 11, I was national freestyle, breaststroke and springboard diving champion, then I went to England and got thrashed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Most debut novels are autobiographical. Even though 99% of authors deny it (but nobody believes them, really). How about The Amazing Racist?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A friend of mine said she struggled to read this book without thinking Eddie Trusted was me, until she came across the school owner, Jimmy Walsh, who looked like Keanu Reeves; then she knew that’s who I was basing on myself. She was right, even though I look nothing like Keanu- it was more the underlying vanity of it. I don’t think I could write Eddie as me without becoming too vain. However, a lot of set-pieces in the book did actually happen to me or to people I know. That is the only way I could be sure I was not getting carried away with unrealistic comedy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>The novel is laugh-out-loud- funny. I laughed aloud when Uncle Thilak says "But he's white" when he meets him for the first time and pat comes the reply from Eddie: "But, I tan well". Humour in the novel is organic. Not forced. Are you a 'funny man' in real life? Do friends and family say "Chhimi you are hell of a joker"?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That’s fantastic to hear that you laughed out loud. Wherever I go with my wife, she makes sure she laughs very loudly when I tell a joke with a straight face so that people do not take me too seriously. I embarrass her on a constant basis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My mother, brother, sister, niece and nephew are jokers; my two year old daughter is already a joker. She wakes in the middle of the night saying, ‘I’ve done poo poo,’ then when I rush to check she says, ‘Juuuust Joooking!’ That makes me very proud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will never say I am funny, but I do always try to be. Having said that, in writing the novel I didn’t go out of my way to make it humorous, so I am pleased that you say it did not seem forced. I just get into a zone and write and sometimes I read it back and can laugh at my own jokes which I cannot do in real life. I used to teach until I realized my classes were 30% syllabus, 70% jokes, but at least I think it kept the students awake and relaxed them a little. Actually it was probably more like 20% to 80%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>On the surface, in the novel it seems like Eddie takes a lot of beating due to his skin colour. But when you really listen to the way Eddie tells his story you notice that he too is racist in his own way -- in his observations about the native people, their behaviour and their country. Do you agree? </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I battled over whether the title, The Amazing Racist, referred to Thilak, Eddie, Sri Lanka or the world in general. There’s a great song in the musical Avenue Q called ‘Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist’ and I think that holds true. Certainly, you’re absolutely right, Eddie is possibly more racist than Thilak in that he doesn’t realize he is. Instead he patronizes Sri Lankans and that is something very common that I have observed with foreigners, especially those less travelled, when they come to subcontinent.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The novel is doing very well in Sri Lanka. Looks like they can laugh at themselves, Otherwise for all the fun you have poked at them in the book they might be burning your book. </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes, the shops in Sri Lanka keep running out of stock and I believe Hachette India have been forced into a second print run just a week or two after the book was released here. Sri Lankans are the world champions at laughing at themselves. In fact, if I don’t laugh at my friends here they get offended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It’s not been out long, but everyone has told me they have an uncle like Thilak. Perhaps the most pleasing comment I got was when a friend told me that I had got the emotions of child custody battles just right. I guess all I needed was the incredible love I have for my daughter to understand how painful that could be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My friends have been very positive about the book because they know I use real people and real names in my writing so they are suddenly all much nicer people. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sri Lankans love giving helpful advice so I have also been told how I should change the book even though it is very much in print already.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It’s not been out long enough to get offensive comments but I remember once when I used to write a column, this lady came up to me at a wedding and told me that my writing was becoming a bit boring and then added that I was looking a bit plump and that I wasn’t ageing well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Apparently I was always a storyteller and wrote a comedy song called ‘stinky bum bum’ aged two – there’s a good chance I stole it from someone else, I’m not sure. Through school I would write comedy poems to read on the coach to football or cricket matches. From the age of 15 whilst at boarding school, I started writing stories which I hoped would develop into novels but I kept turning the protagonist into a half-Tibetan, half-English fifteen year-old boarder of impeccable talent and sex appeal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I work at a school we own, in management, and I also help with university applications. I used to teach economics and some sports too. I have done the maths on how much I will earn per book, and it’s not pretty, so I can’t imagine myself ever being a full-time writer. I stumbled into education really, but the job satisfaction is second to none.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When I am really into the process, I go to school early and try to write before anyone else gets there. A couple of hours a day and I can whack out 2000 words without thinking much. At night I will read over what I have written and make a mental plan for the next day, sending myself emails as reminders. I don’t plan or research a great deal, so I never have writer’s block. Often this means I write junk but, even in writing that junk I am learning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first draft of this took about two months. The first novel I ever wrote stayed with me for about two years, but I was using it as training. It was rubbish, but I learnt so much from it. I did have a few characters I am proud of and I still steal bits from that first novel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Is writing for you like making love or giving birth? </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I do kind of close my eyes, write and hope I don’t disappoint so I guess there are some similarities. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In terms of childbirth, I knew what the cover of my book looked like before it was printed, but when I saw my daughter for the first time, that really was the first time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately not. I just don’t take it too seriously, so I don’t need to face east or chant while I write. I’ve read of sportsmen who get into a zone when they get onto a pitch. I think that is a bit like me at a computer. I honestly have no idea where I am going, I just write and enjoy it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Your first thought when you received your first copy of the book?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My first thought was, no more economy class flying for me. Then I checked the price of business class and my contract for royalties and decided I would stick with economy after all. I was also quite scared. I thought that a lot of people had put a lot of time and money into this book. It better sell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am a bit of a good time Charlie when it comes to reading; my favourite author tends to be the last one I have read. Having said that, I do love Sri Lankan books like Chinaman and Island of a Thousand Mirrors because they are familiar in some ways. It is the life I am used to, and Sri Lanka is an amazing setting for any novel because of its diversity, humour and the civil war. My second novel has been influenced by the writing styles of Chuck Palahniuk and Mohsin Hamid. I like their punchy, cool and modern voices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fantasy. I just can’t do it, I don’t know why. Maybe because I see so many opportunities for humour in it, but I think it takes itself too seriously. To be fair, I have never given it a chance. I might love it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My daughter, Tara, is everything to me and it has changed me in that I no longer think about myself much. For example, I now look at other people in photographs rather than myself! This makes me more observant. My wife is my best friend. She is an avid reader who has read the first page of a thousand books, but that’s all. I discuss plot points with her and she always says, ‘Oh My God, that’s your best ever’ and then she shops online.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My next book, Panther, is about a former child soldier gaining a cricket scholarship to an elite international school. The problems of school, first crushes and sinister school masters, are just one part of his life as he tries to forget a far more dangerous world and battles the anger that is born of his terrible past. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It will be sent the edits for that soon as it comes out in July.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Currently, I am writing my third novel about a woman who was adopted as a baby, returning to Sri Lanka to connect with her eccentric birth mother, revealing some horrible family secrets. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since the main character is based on someone I know and see often, I am being overwhelmed with new real-life comedy material. This is the first book I have written which makes me cry with laughter while I am writing it – this person, without knowing it, is that funny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Now for the mundane and mandatory questions. Sorry, gotta ask them....</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Business Class. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also a sporting hero, a movie, or a cheesy speech. Most of all, I am inspired by my daughter’s unconditional love and how selfless my mother and wife are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Catch 22 – humour without being slapstick. Very hard to find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. The only book I have ever read that has made me laugh out loud. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I would never write a bad word about Bill Gates, just in case. Without sounding like a mercenary, I think I would write anything since there is scope to find either humour or emotion in every topic, however despicable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I would have to take one of mine because with all the time I had there I could try to improve it. Also, then my father could read it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sports, more passive than active these days, TV, films, good food and the gym.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Family is huge for me, as are animals. We took in a street dog at the same time my book came out and named him Eddie Trusted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pictures of my dogs, my daughter. Otherwise a hell of a mess, but I know where everything is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If I was to use an analogy I would say, as a writer, I am like the cricketer who just goes out and plays the game for enjoyment rather than being tied down by scoreboard pressure. I don’t take myself too seriously. This is a hobby which I love. I didn’t need to be published, but of course that makes it much better. If ten people told me my writing was terrible, I would probably agree with them, but still do it for fun.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911074172785075554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632831764262770810.post-13204056291995439432015-03-06T11:37:00.001+05:302015-03-10T09:12:14.172+05:30STUNNING EYE MAKEUP OR IS IT ART?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">She tells stories — about depression, dementia, bullying...and sometimes even classic tales like </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Snow White</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">or the</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> Little Red Riding Hood</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— using a bit of eye shadow, eyeliner and false eyelashes even.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Tal Peleg, a in-her-twenties make-up artist and graphic designer from Israel, uses eye-art (artistic makeup and illustrations on the eye) to give voice to issues that she cares about; and which capture her imagination.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #464646; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24.8888893127441px;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Tal, who has been painting from the time she could hold a brush, grew up a typical teenager loving make-up. She enrolled in a make-up school. But, she also loved art. So, after make-up school, she studied four "hard and demanding" years of visual communication. Then, the conundrum: "Should I become a full-time make-up artist or a graphic designer? I was confused," says Tal. </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">In the end, she combined her passion for art and make-up — she became an eye-artist.</span><br /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">On Tal's deep-set sea-blue eyes, make-up — the capote of vanity — morphs into a medium for powerful narration. "I use make-up to express feelings," she says. Tal's canvas is small, delicate and difficult, but tells influential stories.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #464646; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24.8888893127441px;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Eye art is difficult. Patience of saintly proportions is a pre-requisite. It takes Tal one to three hours and more to complete an image, depending on the complexity of a design. And she doesn't rest till the work is complete. "It is challenging sometimes to stay put in one place for hours and paint," says Tal.</span><br /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">She believes that "inspiration is everywhere — from fairytales to books, pretty flowers and favourite food." Or even things that she finds interesting and challenging. Like the story of Anne Frank or anti-bullying or manic depression.</span><br /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">She paints at least one image a week; photographs it and posts it on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (where she has thousands of followers) before washing it away. Her art is transient, but it initiates crucial discourse and remains in the realm of social consciousness long after the make-up flows down the drain. "This is my art," affirms Tal. However fleeting it might be. Her art tells universal stories.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't know (and I bet your last herringbone that you didn't either) till I began researching the subject of corsets that men too wore corsets to change the appearance of their bodies. Why they wanted pinched waists? Beats me! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Corsets reached 'rock-star' status during Queen Victoria's time. It did take the corset a long time (longer than it took Jim Carrey to achieve stardom) to reach its zenith from the time it made its first appearance circa 2000 BC. However initially, it was worn as an outer garment and slowly made its way 'under' — it was first worn as an under garment in Italy and the women of the French court embraced it. Oh, these stylish French women, I tell you! They always get to it first :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By mid-sixteenth century the British too began using corsets to appear pinched in all the right places. So what if it cut off the windpipes of some, their waists looked 'small'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As years passed by the corset lost out to the bra and then the bras lost out to the hippies and the feminists. Before the latter was adopted (along with shoulder pads), with zest, by 'office girls'. But the corset remained at the back of the closet — all but forgotten, until now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It seems there is a sort of a revival of the corset — maybe not as a daily wear, but still it is making its presence felt. Could it be because of some 50 shades of grey that seems to have taken over the world? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But, all said and done, corsets make foreplay fun and adventurous. Admit it, okay. We know. We have been there and done that :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We came across a glamorous range of corsets (the photos ain't doing justice to the 'glamour' quotient) from Pen.ny a private label of<span style="background-color: white; color: #1f497d;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.zivame.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Zivame.com</a> . </i>Pick the one you wish to pinch your waist and exaggerate that bust and hips of yours — lo behold... you have an hourglass figure. We liked the ornate lace ones, the diamante crystal encrusted ones are pretty and the satin ones luxurious. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bangalore Comic Con 2015 will be hosting one of its kind, interactive and experiential</span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> over 50 Hours of Programming</span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> through panels, launches, gaming, video hangouts and more. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JASON LATOUR</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, famous international comic book artist and writer, known for his work WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN (vol. 2)</span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will be attending the event.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.38; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark Millar</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the writer of the New York Times bestselling novel </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.38; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wanted</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. His other works include </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.38; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kick-Ass series, The Secret Service, Jupiter’s Legacy, Nemesis, Superior, Super Crooks, American Jesus, MPH, Starlight</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.38; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Chrononauts.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Wanted, Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2 and The Secret Service (as Kingsman: The Secret Service) have been adapted into feature films, and Nemesis, Superior, Starlight, War Heroes, and Chrononauts are in development at major studios. Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.38; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 28px;">Manganiyar Seduction transported me to a different world. When the screens opened to reveal 43 musician, seated in 36 red-curtained cubicles arranged in four horizontal rows one on top of the other — like a magic box, I was forever sold on the magic of the Manganiyars. I later came to know that Roy's set was a combination of the Hawa Mahal and the Red light district of Amsterdam. When the concert begins, a single cubicle light goes on and the first singer begins his song. Soon another cubicle lights up and another and another — there's a build of musical instrumnents and the stirring soulful voices of the singers. Soon you are transported into a different world. Even if you can't understand a word of what they are singing. Like me. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #515151; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">My obsession with the Manganiyars took me on a path to know more about these wonderful musicians. The Manganiyars are Sunni Muslims from the Thar Desert, Rajasthan. They sing, essentially, about Hindu gods. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 23.9999980926514px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 23.9999980926514px;">They traditionally invoke the Hindu god Krishna before beginning their recital — as they have been doing it for centuries. Earlier they would peform for kings and would be called upon to entertain the troops before and after a battle. Later, they began singing for wealthy patrons. In fact the community is divided into two — where one group sings for wealthy Hindu patrons and the other, Muslim patrons. They sing ballads, Sufi poems and have a song for occassions of life like births, deaths and marriages. </span></div>
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Mauritius where his mother was a stylist. When Yasin was only 14, his mother
decided to open a shop of her own. Since then fabrics and embroideries have
been a part of Yasin’s life. “I grew up in this environment — watching
and silently learning from her,” Yasin tells us from Mauritius, where he is now
a young and ‘rocking-the-island’ kinda fashion designer with his own brand of
clothing called <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/boygroove.outlet" target="_blank">BOY GROOVE.</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Necessity is the mother of all inventions, might be a cliché, but in Yasin’s case, it is true to his leather soles. In
September 2012, when he returned home after completing his education abroad, he
met his longtime friend David Stafford. “I started complaining that I couldn’t
find clothes for me here (in Mauritius),” recalls Yasin. “Everything seemed to
be insipid or mass produced or both. David too had the same problem.” The duo
decided to do something about it — two months later, on the 12th December 2012,
they opened the doors of <b>Boy Groove</b> to the world. “Basically, Boy Groove started over coffee and complaints…” laughs Yasin. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Mauritius. “Men’s fashion is highly limited here. There’s a tendency for uniformity
and practicality; there’s very little creativity for menswear here.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He and David, along with Boy Groove, plan
to change all that. “People should understand that dressing up like everyone
else is NOT fashion,” says Yasin who always stood out in a crowd. (Read what
was written about him a few years ago <a href="http://su-journaljottings.blogspot.in/2012/01/red-boots.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Originality is the mission statement
of Boy Groove. “When anyone walks into the shop, he should be able to find at
least a pair of jeans and something to go with it for an affordable price — and he
should be able to be different from the masses." (At BOY GROOVE the price range is between Rs.350-1200)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The signature style of Boy Groove is a blend of
Yasin’s and David’s “totally different and diametrically opposed tastes”. David
is more pop - rock (think Jeremy Scott, coco Rocha and Naomi Campbell; “He
swears by them, day and night.”) and Yasin is glam- chic (think Elizabeth
Taylor and Joan Collins). Yes, Yasin’s inspirations and fashion icons are
timeless WOMEN. Inspired by the warp and weave of their style he designs MENSWEAR.
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international fashion ramps) but we hate trends,” says Yasin. Thank god, for
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Groove makes it a point to have only limited editions of all their clothing. “We
never make more than five pieces of a model,” says Yasin. This season, Boy
Groove is focusing on their new line of kurtas — light, airy, with embroidery
and sober. The line would be out in June. By December, they are planning a
Jeremy Scott inspired collection.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that sticks out for him and he will have you know that it is the ability of the fashion industry being the
only industry which still offers possibilities to create. “And has space for
originality without many constraints. New ideas, blends, fabrics and methods
are always coming up. Also, for ages, fashion has been a way of changing
society, helping it move forward. The fashion industry even expressed and
supported some movements that have directed the course of history. It is one of
the rare domains where influences of many cultures clash to give birth to
beauty. All these aspects of the fashion world show that it has many faces and
goals than just ‘dressing up people’.”</span></div>
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their contribution to men’s fashion in their homeland. They have cast a lil’
stone in this island nation, which is bound to have a ripple effect in times
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fashion icon:</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">
The greatest fashion icon of all times is and will always be Elizabeth
Taylor. She was fashion, fashion was her. She could wear everything and carry
it off. In case of doubt, just overload everything with diamonds and it works.
Who else would have dared so that? Whatever her look was, whatever she was
wearing was instantly a hit of her personality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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admire her for the same reasons. She was the one who made shoulder pads a thing
in the 80’s. Without shoulder pads, vintage couldn’t exist today and it’s all
due to her…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Elsa Schiaparelli. In a time when fashion was rather conventional, she brought
the “shocking pink”; she was the first one to have a theme collection. She
overturned many rules and imposed her new ones which are still being respected
today. Sadly, very little credit is given to her for her contribution…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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garment:</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> My Cashmere cape, without any doubt! It goes
with absolutely everything!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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piece of clothing I cannot live without:</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> The day I lose my
Courrèges-cut turquoise raincoat, I think my life would be over. I stumbled
across it in a thrift shop at a time when my wardrobe was quite limited, and
finding it was a sign that the situation wouldn’t last for long. It really has
brought me luck!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Favourite
accessory:</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Right now, it is my phone and its various
casings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Favourite
designer:</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Right now, it is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rony.dutta1?fref=ts" target="_blank">Ron Dutta</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">One
piece of fashion statement men shouldn’t shy away from:</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">
Low cut slim or skinny jeans. How come it hasn’t yet become THE modern man
iconic wear?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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piece of clothing men shouldn't be caught dead in:</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">
Baggy jeans. Never, EVER, EVER, EVER wear those if you want to have your
respectability intact. And forget the coloured jeans. It’s ‘has-been’ now.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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corporate attire that is not boring would be:</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Classic
with a touch of flashy. Once, I advised the Editor-in-chief of a newspaper to
wear a black suit, white shirt, fuchsia tie and laces of his black shoes
matching the tie. It worked wonders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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right date outfit for a guy:</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Skinny jeans. Paired
with anything ranging from a slim cut shirt with flowery prints or a body fit
T-shirt. Throw on a blazer, depending on where you will be…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is truly pushing new boundaries in hand-made
writing instrument design. The William Penn</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Store, (AP Limited Ediions in association with William Penn), has created six stunning Russian Lacquer art </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">limited edition
fountain pens</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span>dedicated to Hindu Gods — </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shiva, Krishna Vishnu,Lakshmi, Ganesha and others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Russian Lacquer Miniature Art was
developed in the early 1920s. The four villages of Fedoskino, Mstera, Kholuj and
Palekh, are the centres for this iconic art, which blends European and Oriental traditions of lacquer miniature. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The base material on which the painting is done is called Ebonite, a type of
hardened rubber found in Japan which is 100% natural.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The pens are hand crafted and created over several months. Pricey? Yes. Priceless art? Definitely yes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Popular Hindu God, the elephant-headed Ganesha is also known as the </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">God</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> of Wisdom. Invoked in his</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> dancing form he is renowned as </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> the guarantor of success in all pursuits especially those related to the fine arts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hindu God Vishnu and His consort, Goddess Lakshmi in a radiant Palekh depiction — The Couple resting on the legendary Sheshnaga, the 1000 headed serpent as they traverse the celestial waters of the Milky Way and the Eternal Cosmic Consciousness.He is known as the </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Preserver of Life and She is known as the Goddess of wealth and prosperity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u></u></b>The art work depicts Krishna,</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> the most revered of Indian Divinities. The Eighth incarnation of Vishnu — playing the flute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This one is a tribute to Lord Ganesha and Goddess Lakshmi. The duo is worshipped all over the world during Diwali. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is by done by artist</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Natasha Kurkina from the Palekh School of Art in Russia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Here Krishna is depicted in </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">his childlike form. Growing up as a cowherd, He is considered the embodiment of divine love and purity in all forms, thought included</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Known as Mahadeva, the destroyer of evil, and a form of limitless energy, Shiva is often seen with the Nandi, a strong, magnificent, white Bull. He is one of the most enigmatic Hindu Gods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All the pens are limited editions and only nine pieces of each were made by William Penn,<span style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"> one of the world’s biggest multi-brand
retail chains for premium and luxury fine writing instruments. At the William Penn Store (27 outlets in Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kochi and Kolkata) you will find around 20 of the world's best known brands of pens — </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"> Sheaffer, Caran
d’Ache, Lapis Bard, Lamy, Sailor and the likes. Check out their online store </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://www.williampenn.net/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">www.williampenn.net</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you are a native of Kerala (yes, that God's own country) then we wouldn't have to tell you what it's like to have a Nair-chai kadda- breakfast. It is an experience and an institution. However, Das Sreedharan (who has a cult following in the UK and the likes of Anthony Bourdain, Jamie Oliver and India Knight on his list of admirers), again a native son of the Kerala soil, has recreated this 'breakfast experience' in the form of Weekend Breakfast at his candy-pink-coloured restaurant, RASA INDIA, in Bangalore. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is one breakfast that is bound to turn into a brunch (and who knows even lunch). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The breakfast consists of traditional Kerala fare prepared using organic produce</b> — Puttu Kadala, Appam Stew, Rasa Idli, Nair Dosa and much more. Apart from this, they also have a variety of dosas that one can savour — </span><span lang="EN-IN">Masala Dosa, Ghee Roast, Onion Roast, Thattu Dosa and Onion Ottapam. And the ubiquitous idlis — Masala Idli, plain idli and vadas. Typical Nair chai (or coffee if you like) to sip. Chief Chef Das promises to introduce some more of the finest and </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">healthiest "organic food as prepared in the mornings at traditional Kerala home and also in the famous Nair Tea Shops in Kerala". And we say, bring it on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Started in</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><u style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></u><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">England</span><u style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></u><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in 1994, Rasa, the brainchild of Das Sreedharan, soon became a hot favourite among English, European and Asian clientele in the</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><u style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></u><u style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></u><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">UK</span><u style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></u><u style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></u><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Rasa challenged the perception of an Indian curry house by offering Indian cuisine in minimalistic presentation, largely influenced by Kerala.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The food at Rasa is organic. "Organic is a way of life," Das will let you know. That's one of the reasons Rasa also organises FreshWay, an organic market where many organipreneurs display their produce while live music brings the festive feel of a village market. The organic market is usually held during weekends at Rasa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Chief Chef, Das creates food in the same manner that he builds the community around him. " With emotions, by having conversations and building stories, while the food entices ones taste buds." Says Das, “The secret ingredient in our food is love." You get dollops of it here. And here's a sample of it too — watch the video on how Rasa makes the traditional Kerala breakfast, Puttu Kadala </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://youtu.be/aR9DbvpfhQc" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://youtu.be/aR9DbvpfhQc">http://youtu.be/aR9DbvpfhQc</a> </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Puttu flour (essentially made of rice) is readily available in super markets. But if you prefer to make your own, this is how you do it: Soak two cups of rice for five hours. Wash and drain. Dry it for sometime. Grind it when it is slightly wet. You should get a sandy consistency. Cool and use. </span></div>
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<span itemprop="recipeInstructions"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Take two cups of flour in a bowl along with salt. Mix the flour well adding little water at a time. You know it is done when it is still moist and yet crumbly in consistency. Avoid lumps. Get a puttu-maker, which is a cyclindrical tube with a perforated base and separate pot. Fill the tube with little grated coconut, followed by flour. Repeat the process till the cylinder is full. Top the layer with some more grated coconut. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: initial; line-height: normal;">Heat 1 tbsp of coconut oil in a pressure cooker. </span><span style="background-color: initial; line-height: normal;">Add onion (1 big chopped), dry red chillies (8 nos) cut into two pieces), garlic (5 pods), coconut pieces (one or two small 1/2 " pieces), kadala( black channa - 1 cup) and four glasses of water. </span><span style="background-color: initial; line-height: normal;">Cook up to 12 whistles. </span><span style="background-color: initial; line-height: normal;">Add coriander powder (3tbsp), chilly powder ( 1 1/2 tbsp), turmeric powder (1/2 tsp) and salt and cook for five mins on a medium flame. </span><span style="background-color: initial; line-height: normal;">Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan. Splutter 1/2 tsp mustard seeds. Add </span><span style="background-color: initial; line-height: normal;">.2 tbsp of small coconut pieces, 7 nos shallots and saute till golden brown. </span><span style="background-color: initial; line-height: normal;">Add curry leaves and add this to the kadala curry. Serve with puttu. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #464646; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #464646; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><em style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Adrian Chesser was raised to be </em><em style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a Pentecostal preacher. </em><em style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Adrian Chesser discovered he was gay. </em><em style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Adrian Chesser was later diagnosed with AIDS. </em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #464646; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><em style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Adrian Chesser is a photographer. </em></span></span><em style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now what?</em><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #464646; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">That could easily be the preamble to the seminal photography project <i><b><a href="http://www.adrainchesser.com/i-have-something-to-tell-you/" target="_blank">I have something to tell you</a> </b></i>by <a href="http://www.adrainchesser.com/" target="_blank"><b>Adrian Chesser</b></a>, who was born in 1965 and grew up in a small town in South Florida, USA. He studied the Bible, played the piano and spoke in 'tongues'. </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">He learnt to cast out demons. He knew, as a gay man, he would be an outcast in this environment. "I left home at the first opportunity," recalls Chesser who grew up with deep-seated fears of rejection and abandonment.</span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">His twenties became a "life that was unhinged from the grounding forces of family and home and was fuelled by alcohol, drugs and sex." He says photography gave this "brave new life" form and structure.</span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">A friend gave Chesser a camera; he fell in love with light and image. In a closet under a stairwell, he taught himself</span></span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #464646; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"> photography even as he worked as a dish-washer, busboy and waiter; he played Santa Claus, assisted gardeners and drug-dealers. He wrestled alligators at an Indian reservation. And he even hustled sex for money.</span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">But through it all, photography was Chesser's anchor. He practised it every day "as a kind of spiritual ritual, a sacred ccupation, a way to understand and interpret my life," he says.</span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">In his thirties, photography saved Chesser's life. He was hospitalised, tested positive for HIV and was diagnosed with AIDS. He had an extreme physical reaction whenever he thought about having to tell his friends and family about his condition. "I would panic," he says. It didn't make sense, because he had a loving and supporting group of friends.</span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">He soon realised that these intense emotions were rooted in his childhood fear of abandonment. "It was the same reaction I had as a kid whenever I had to disclose something uncomfortable to my parents; fearing rejection or even abandonment if larger secrets were revealed. It occurred to me that if I ritualised the act of telling, that it might be possible to transform these childhood fears that were still affecting me as an adult."</span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">He invited each friend to his studio to have their picture taken — a simple head shot for a "new project". They weren't given any other information. For a backdrop Chesser used the curtains from the living room of his childhood home. He put everyone through the same routine ("a formal process that proved to be transformative"). At the beginning of each shoot he would start by saying: <b>"I have something to tell you."</b></span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Chesser recalls: "Each sitter's reaction was unique depending upon their own experience of loss, illness and death, creating a portrait of unguarded, unsettling honesty." <b>He photographed 47 people; shot two rolls of 36 exposure film per person.</b></span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">"Everyone was brave, no one asked me to stop and no one got up and left. We had a conversation a shared experience, there were tears and laughter and above all there was love. In the end there was no abandonment."</span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">The photo-shoot took a couple of weeks; the editing and printing became another layer of the healing process. Chesser found himself choosing the image that most reflected his own experience in a way they were self-portraits. "I could see in the contact sheets where there would be a moment when it would be too much for the sitter and they would have to go away, either by closing their eyes or turning their head away from the camera, but in the end they would always come back, it was another moment when I realised I had not been abandoned."</span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><b>Chesser cried a lot while printing the photos </b>— "mostly out of gratitude." He printed the photographs on glossy paper because the surface is reflective. "It creates a glare that distracts from seeing the actual image," Chesser explains, "not unlike what we do as humans creating facades to distract from what lies beneath. Also, the surface is extremely fragile. Scratches on the surface are like scars on a human body, speaking to the experiences of life that a photo has as an object."</span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Chesser was diagnosed with AIDS close to a decade ago. Today, he is healthy "and happy. I'm told by my doctor that my immune system is now normal for anyone my age," he says. In the ensuing years Chesser went on to do inspiring photographic series such as </span><em style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gay campground, Mercury vapour, Deluge, Tate, Self </em><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">and so on</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">. However,<b> <i>I have something to tell you,</i></b> has become a body of work that speaks to the universal experience of loss and grief and hope in the face of despair. "The phrase 'I have something to tell you' becomes a kind of mile-marker in a life, delineating what came before from what comes after," Chesser says.</span><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">It was never Chesser's intention to 'capture the moment'. His intent was to create a ritual that would help heal a deep seated emotional trauma. And it has!</span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911074172785075554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632831764262770810.post-21838885549420560352015-02-27T12:53:00.001+05:302015-02-27T12:53:47.738+05:30LOVE BY CARATLANE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">We love employers like<b> <a href="http://www.caratlane.com/" target="_blank">CaratLane</a>. </b>The<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">makers of urban-chic diamond jewellery recently treated their women employees to a lovely surprise on Valentine's Day. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">A day ahead of D-Day, elegantly wrapped gift packages </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">were placed on every woman
employees desk with sweet personalized note conveying words of appreciation
like:</span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">“You’re are Beautiful, You are
Amazing, You’re Loved!”</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">. When the employees came to work the next day, they were in for a pleasant surprise. Each gift package contained <b> five of their favourite jewellery pieces from </b></span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://caratlane.com/">CaratLane.com</a></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">. Needless to say, their expressions were priceless. We think this gesture by an employer to the employees is just F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">PS: We also love the jewellery. <b>AND this is not a paid post.</b> Nothing on Nila Tamaraa is. What we love and enjoy, we share it with our readers. :)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911074172785075554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632831764262770810.post-24640824553843839772015-02-27T09:00:00.000+05:302015-03-02T09:54:42.300+05:30THE BANGALORE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL — 7TH EDITION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">Bangalore Queer Film Festival (BQFF) is back! The annual </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">event of queer films — from the world over — photo exhibitions, art exhibitions, performances and panel discussions will be held from<b> February 27 to March 1 </b>in Bangalore. The three-day festival will be held at two venues — Day 1 at Max Mueller Bhavan in Indiranagar and days 2 & 3 at Alliance Francaise in Vasanth Nagar. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Since it's inception, BQFF</span><br />
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intersex and other communities that fall outside the heterosexual norm. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The festival will feature over
<b>55 films (short films, documentaries, animation and feature length films) from 22 countries including </b>France,
Belgium, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia, Iran, Slovenia, Russia, India,
Germany, Finland, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, USA, UK, Portugal, Spain, Myanmar,
Fiji, Taiwan and China. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The opening night feature is <b>Cheryl Dunye’s lesbian romp </b><i><b>Mommy is Coming.</b></i> Then there's <b> Robin Campillo’s </b><i><b>Eastern Boys</b></i>, in which middle-aged
Muller invites young ‘Eastern boy’ Marek to his house after spotting him at the
train station in Paris, only to be pulled into another world; and <b>Çağla
Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti’s </b><i><b>Noor</b>,
</i>a story of a heart-broken khusra who wants to now be a man again and find
love again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Closing night will showcases <b>Joaquim Pinto’s </b><i><b>E-Agora? Lembra-Me</b> (What Now? Remind Me)</i>.
The filmmaker, who has been living with HIV for more than twenty years, looks
back on his life in cinema, his friends and lovers, and at art and nature, all
while undergoing experimental drug treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Other films include <i><b>Violette</b></i>, a period film
that fictionalises the relationship that grew between Violette Leduc and Simone
de Beauvoir in the years after the war in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. </span></div>
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BQFF – <b>Moloy Mukherjee’s </b><i><b>Amar Bhavna
Kintu Dur Holona</b> (Messy Forever)</i>, an indescribable play of image, identity and
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year the line-up offers rare treats like <i><b>XYX</b></i><b>
(Sasha Ihnatovich and Kato Drobysh), a short film</b>; Naomi Fearn’s music video <i><b>Sock Puppe</b>t</i>, Raju Rage’s moving narrative on being a trans migrant,<b> </b><i><b>Project/ed:
‘cut your coat according to your cloth’.</b></i> Anurupa Prakash’s <i><b>Will This Change?</b></i>, a documentary on the lives of transgender and
gay communities in Bangladesh; He Xiaopei and Yuan Yuan’s funny and endearing <i><b>Our Marriages: When Lesbians Marry Gay Men</b></i>;
the charm and strength of transgender sex workers in Michael Liu’s <b>documentary </b><i><b>Magic</b></i></span></div>
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2015 will also be showcasing queer performances and a photo exhibition. The
performances will be held on Saturday and Sunday evening (28<sup>th</sup> and 1<sup>st</sup>)
at the Alliance Française de Bangalore, and include piano performance of Khiyanur Vallikad and the
floor-splitting number of the Pink Divas. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year BQFF also brings a curated exhibition of illustrations by Nilofer that
celebrate the beauty and playfulness of a voluptuous womanly body, a selection
of printed and video works by performance artist Tsohil Bhatia, a collaborative
photo work by photographer Shilpa Raj and model Striana that explores the
melancholia and schism of gender among other works.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN"> F</span>or more info <span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://blrqueerfilmfest.com/">blrqueerfilmfest.com</a></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911074172785075554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632831764262770810.post-63687011940850821842015-02-26T12:19:00.001+05:302015-02-26T12:19:22.264+05:30HAND-PAINTED SLIP-ON CANVAS SHOES ARE A FASHION RAGE NOW<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1996 world champions Sri Lanka face spirited, first-time World Cup contenders Afghanistan here on 22 February. Afghanistan then stay in town for a key game on 26 February when they will fancy their chances against Scotland. It’s Scotland's third World Cup tournament but should higher-ranked Afghanistan win an historic first World Cup match, you won’t want to miss their joy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dunedin claims a special spot in New Zealand cricket history with the country's inaugural first-class match having taken place at the South Dunedin Recreation Ground in January 1864. The home side, Otago, beat neighbouring Canterbury by 76 runs to begin an annual rivalry that continues to this day. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dunedin's Albion Cricket Club is the oldest continuous club in New Zealand, having been inaugurated in 1862. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Otago's largest city, the Scottish settlement of Dunedin dates back to the 1840s. Its grand, ruler-straight Edwardian and Victorian street-scapes are a legacy of the Central Otago gold boom, but with a modern day population of 100,000 the vibe is that of an easy-going provincial hub. Inland from the coastal centre is the ruggedly beautiful, sparsely populated Central Otago region, a favourite of artists, orchardists and red grape winemakers. Take a roadie to discover its big skies and haunted country pubs, or head to the ski towns of Queenstown and Wanaka amid the Southern Alps, a couple of lakes spectacularly framed by purple-hued mountain ranges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Great wildlife. Otago Peninsula snakes out from the city of Dunedin with its curvy backbone giving shelter to a string of unspoilt bays and beaches. It's an eco-tourist's dream destination with the world's only mainland albatross colony, the<b> world's rarest penguin</b> - the hoiho, punk-coiffed yellow-eyed star of our five dollar note, wild sea lions and even the occasional leopard and elephant seal waiting to be viewed up close in their natural habitat. The rare charms of Otago Peninsula also extend to Larnach Castle, built in 1871 and a must-do for Devonshire tea and garden enthusiasts. In Dunedin itself explore the hidden gem that is the city's botanic gardens, chance your arm at Dunedin casino, discover the city's great live music tradition at a city pub and get uniquely southern with a plate of mutton bird linguini at harbour-front eatery Plato, washed down with a fine Central Otago Pinot noir.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911074172785075554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632831764262770810.post-4443987436805225742015-02-17T09:27:00.001+05:302015-02-26T12:21:29.636+05:30JEWELRY TO CELEBRATE LOVE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iris earring. Quirky, gold-plated, enameled earrings. Rs.5600</td></tr>
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