I was blessed to spend several days last week with my friend, my hero, my colleague and fellow comrade, Meena Seshu in her home in Kohlapur, surrounded by glorious family by blood or by love. The drive from Pune to Kohlapur through the Deccan Plateau was kissed with a tea time sunset.
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As I mentioned, I descended upon a Juhu Beach packed to the water’s edge with people in their finest new Eid clothes. Seas of men in white and women in bright colors. I love how a soccer ball always finds its way into the festivities.
As a child, I remember the first time I ate [...]
“The only dream worth having is… to love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what [...]
This evening I was at an opening of Jamel Shabazz’s photography at Power House Arena in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Shabazz portrays a New York of a different era… and this photo here doesn’t do it justice. He captures a rough-around-the-edges New York; a New York in love with hip hop; a New York of contradictions around [...]
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