I heard there was a kerfuffle about Humans of New York recently. This week is the ten-year anniversary of a post I've never forgotten.
Rosie Roti
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- Didn't think Rashmika would be in anything sillier than Animal, but dropping this in a week when the city is still fishing bodies out of the collapse of an extremely illegal hoarding is really impressiveJust before Mumbai elections and 13 seats in Maharashtra, a direct ‘ad’ by a celebrity on development.
- It's been a month since my father died. Long transformative illness can make it difficult to remember and enjoy your past with someone you love. I'm not even ready for that, bc I'm still dwelling in the gratitude of every last minute I got to have. But here's an archival photo.
- I was just at the signal next to my house waiting to cross when I heard a strange voice say, “Come on, hurry,” when the light turned green. It was a small woman, power-walking to church. “Scary it is to cross these days, na,” she said. “Reckless only,” I said. “Do you know me?”
00:00- A reminder of what the police were doing to Prabir Purkayastha on September 25, 1975. (From Gyan Prakash's "Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democrac's Turning Point")
Delhi Police arrests NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and Amit Chakravarty in alleged UAPA case - Replying to @supriyanSo this is my advance contribution to Matr-Pitr Pujan Diwas, I guess, and my Valentine. I was very lucky in the love I received and I wanted to tell everyone who’s had the same luck that you won’t be annihilated when the time comes.
- Replying to @supriyanMourning isn’t sad all the time. I know the idea that grief is a form of love has filtered all the way down to comic-book TV so I won't go into any of that. It’s just a very full feeling. It's as vivid and vivifying as any of the other things that make us feel alive.
- Finished The Romantics over lunch break -- such a marvellously watchable work for a lot of audiences whose first-ever documentary it is likely to be. I just wish there had been less boring nepo talk and more about the actual song and dance.
- Replying to @supriyanI saw Zakir’s “Tathasthu” a few days ago and he had a beautiful expression of the complicatedness of this. Jis ghar mein koi guzar jaata hai, uss ghar mein har tyohar ki shuruaat maatam se hoti hain.
- (While we're at it I want to shun, mock and abhor the creeping financialisation of ordinary language. I don't want to know what you are 'solving for' if it isn't a maths problem.)
- Incredible fight to start in a country where most languages have entirely different approaches to gender and formality in pronouns, at a time when ML translation still doesn't fully get the difference between 'him' and 'her'Hoping that this “pronoun illness” doesn’t reach India. Many “big city schools” in India are now teaching it to kids. Also see many CVs with pronouns these days. Need to know where to draw the line in following the west blindly!
- Really hoping I and other moviegoers get to watch Payal Kapadia's film in a theatre soon. Until it's out, so delighted to see her joyous confidence, and her gorgeous actors celebrating in clothes that aren't upcycled bridal wear.
- Only about another 24 hours to see a bunch of Iranian films by women and non-binary filmmakers for free: another-screen.com/films-from-ira…
