Archives for “Myself”
- Sangeeta Pillai Lander Displaced? Me? I’ve always dreamed of exotic travel – even when I was a little girl growing up in a crowded one-bedroom suburban Mumbai apartment within a family of five. I dreamed, yes, but never thought it was possible. And wonder of wonders, I now live in another country and I [...]
- By Siddharth Sarda “When you have lived at a place long enough, every place seems small – a house, a city , a country.” I read the above line in a Chuck Palahniuk novel ,The Diary, and instantly related to it. With the combination of me living in various hostels and my dad having [...]
I always feared getting a tattoo. The idea of a tattoo – something permanently etched on my body in a whim of youthful fancy – is borderline ridiculous to me. A tattoo, like a marriage, feels eternal. And who knows how life is going to change you, mold you, throw you to the roadside or [...]
(When talking about Paris) I like my town, but I can’t say exactly what I like about it. I don’t think it’s the smell. I’m too accustomed to the monuments to want to look at them. I like certain lights, a few bridges, café terraces…” — Georges Perec
A new day. A new adventure Some people thought I was insane to return to America when the economy was sinking, when I could easily get another teaching job in Asia, when I expressed such dislike over New York, and when I consistently praised the cheapness, the beauty, and the kind people of Asia. I [...]
Even within Southeast Asia, the distribution of wealth and the availability of resources from one country to another is strikingly clear. I forgot how much better the food is in Thailand, how its 7-11’s would be seen as luxury stories in its neighboring countries, and today I experienced its clean modern hospitals. After all these [...]
Got news from Mumbai that a junior from college fell off a crowded Mumbai local train. Lost both legs. Home is the place you leave because some of it is rotten and you don’t believe you can repair it. — Sriram Venkitachalam Bombay – Richmond
- IdeaSmith I’ve written about my uprooted office spaces. I knew that would be temporary so I didn’t put down roots. This Monday morning opened with the official announcement that we were moving offices. Not the months-in-planning location across the city; unaccounted for delays have cropped up. But in the meantime our, our current lease [...]