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This one needed to be not just a snapshot…

“Saraswati” from Radha Ki Betiyaan line…

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nostalgia for the rural?

who’d a thunk it – my writing with neices leads me back to mapping roots and routes …
“my nostalgia for the rural is so unexplained by my actual life experiences…or on second thoughts maybe not unexplainable at all… while some may locate my yearning/nostalgia in roots in kakaraparru – it may be that the [...]

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hmm

interesting how even this most recent article took me back to theorizing pvt and public through postcolonial feminist lenses – and I really wasnt looking to directly go there…

and of course the ubiquitous tension/dialectic of accountability to and oppression within community v individualization and illusions of liberation….
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shifting the lens…

When you ACTUALLY truly shift the lens of benefit to look at issues of sustainable livelihoods, accessible democratic practices and sharing of resources with future generations…… THEN what would we think of a progress? I keep thinking of the senior citizen who asked about why we were not improving our (US) railways – and why we always [...]

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Ganesh Chathurthi Greetings to all

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Sari tales

S writes – “Master weavers did pick up this technology…true, it was more for furnishing products, especially when markets opened out….but I again come back to narayanpet, where master weavers have framelooms, and are making sareees on it. It does have a clear product identity (unlike a more universal fursnishing fabric), but I think what [...]

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different realities?

producer and consumer
who’s producing who (what?)
who’s consuming who (what?)
which object stares back?

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