Dadi recently found two 8mm film reels, which I happily agreed to digitize somehow. The first reel had “Republic Day Parade 1961″ scrawled on it – and later cut out – in an unknown handwriting. The address of Kodak Developers at Hornby Road, Fort, Bombay was written in my Dada’s handwriting. So I went into the process of digitization quite clueless as to what I would find.

What I found was quite astonishing – the majority of the film was taken pre-1953 (my grandparent’s wedding) – perhaps around the time my …

Work is what you have done
after the play is produced
and the audience claps.
Before that friends keep asking
when you are planning to go
out and get a job.

don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it. unless…

Ludo has been desecrated as a mindless game totally dependent on chance. But I would like to disagree.

Based on a poem by Telegu poet Sri Sri. Set to Bombay and the music of Ray Spiegel. Random shots collected from all over Bombay

Three women are walking home after eating dinner at 9pm. It isn’t late. It isn’t a long walk home. 7 minutes. It is, however, dark.

Krzysztof Zanussi is an established yet ‘unentertaining’ Polish filmmaker who visited Srishti for a brief talk on 3rd March, 2009.

I think that there are two types of people in the world. Those who have faith and those who don’t. Now I’m not talking about faith in the religious sense. Whether you believe in God or not is great or watever, I don’t really care.
The faith I’m talking about is the belief in belief. Do you believe in anything? Not to stand up and fight for it. But to fight within yourself for it.
Do you believe the art world sucks? And the corporate world is the place to be? Then …

We were there! Videos and Images coming soon!

Life in the suburbs can sometimes be boring (pan to quiet streets of SFS colony, Yelahanka).