Friday, January 07, 2005

Kala in Bengali means banana also
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Thursday, January 06, 2005


heres a graveyard we designed a while ago at college
Its a graveyard for failed projects
Maybe it can be a graveyard for failed comments. Posted by Hello

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

'kala' ghoda?

Maybe the art district is not so much of a construct after all. Maybe we have been the victims of a very long misunderstanding. Consider: If KALA of kalaghoda is pronounced not as 'Kaala', but just 'Kala', it means art!! The idea boggles the old mind! Maybe the British pronounced it all wrong, and the present art district is merely bringing what was kept away from us for such a long time! Long live the artistic horse/horsey artist!

Monday, January 03, 2005

City planning only understands – legal/illegal, public/private, theirs/ours, there is no space between that. Only way to clean is to use force – there is no provision for planning other than that.

Demolish and built

Or

Preserve and clean

Heritage buildings are cleaned of all the things that got added on it as if those are unhistorical and there is a true history hidden beneath it.

Sunday, January 02, 2005

the grave of all arty facts

some thoughts on the basement..
preservation for posterity under the ground.. like a graveyard
dead but still remembered
and capable of being resurrected- when the need strikes-
like secret weapons
- the basketball court in the xavier academy.. opening to reveal the x-men jet..
this urge to record and recall- i wonder what kind of history it will write..

and here i quote from robert graves' 'i, claudius'


there are two kinds of histories:
ones that inspire mankind to virtue; and
ones that inspire mankind to truth..

i wonder what kind of history the conservation movement (or the 'art district') prefers..