Category Archives: rural

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 – SL economies…

A says she sees some parellels between how Sudhir Alladi describes the Chicago “underground” economy and SL economies…
hmmm – I’m not sure I agree myself but can be made to see why she thinks so I am sure
well I am going today – so can discuss this f2f (or cellphone to cellphone locally) at [...]

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The Rad Zabibha collection at the International House of Style

Oryx has started the rad Zabibha collection in her store – check it out at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Son/175/174/36

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Inter-facing DAMA – COMS 729

Understanding through doing…. the assignment emphasis was less on techical expertise of website building (most of the builders are beginners) and more on attempting to convey the concept that came from the client (as interpreted and understood by each of the groups based in their socio-cultural contextual locations). Is there a concept without [...]

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hooray for oryx temple!

She created a salwar kameez from Dastkar Andhra fabric:)

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writing self – march 2007

వూరు
“Vooru” – I punch that into the Padma telugu transformer – remember that at the theory cluster meeting they asked me if that was a form of insult.
But of course I cant cut and paste it onto the word document – but it works here – so maybe I should continue the notes here and [...]

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“staging authenticities” by itineraries that never take us “home”?

what can I say?
whose voices am I consuming as I say
why can I not say
when you can
but yet you want their authentic voices
what I tell you cannot be trusted
that’s what you say
as if you had heard the authentic
yourself
then why do you need me to reveal it to you
if you know what it should [...]

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found రవీంద్ర నోట్సు

it goes…
మేము ఇక్కడనుంచి 9 మంది రాజవోలు వర్క్షాప్పుకు వెళ్ళాము…
so now I have to piece together based on all these notes since I cant seem to locate the tapes…

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Protected: Looking at connections – livestock, small ruminant, large ruminant, women, dalits…

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Looking for Rajavolu online, I found…

I found Guntur on google map and found tenali and kuchipudi on wikipedia..
What do I remember of the Rajavolu trip?

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