The pretentious breakfast
Tomorrow, Sunday the 29th of June, 2008.
Cast in order of appearance:
Sharanya Manivannan – critically acclaimed poet.
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan – soon to be critically acclaimed everything
Amethyst – pretentiously upper-class, Madras type hangout.
Late Breakfast – That meal pretentious folks exploit in the company of friends
Join us, or not. We don’t care
Selective Amnesia explained in postmodern terms
In postmodern terms, all expressions of art in India were performances. Nobody went and stood in front of a statue just for the heck of it; you could, of course, but you were missing the point. It had to be savored in context.
From Round Dice
Selective Amnesia, for those still not in the know, is to be savored. In context.
Look what came in the mail yesterday!
A fantastic book possession this. It begins with an introduction that is more history than most books in the CBSE syllabus. Punctuated by poems from Tamil literature. And more. Followed by pages and pages photos and description of the best bronzes.
Calling production houses
Hello folks,
This is perhaps one of the few(est) times I’ve asked a favour of my blog’s readers. So I shall be muchly grateful if you can help me. Do any of you know productions houses/producers? Will said production house/producer have contacts at or will be able to get into Discovery Travel & Living channel? Better still, (faint though the chance appears to be) are any of my readers working at Discovery Travel & Living?
If any of the above is true, can we meet? I have a few show ideas that will be right up your street.
Data type mismatch
The Shiv Sena, a party that found its mojo by asking Tamils in Bombay to get the fuck out, have an office in Madras. I don’t yet know what their manifesto is, but it will be interesting.
(That concludes the only Political post ever on SelAm)
Dear The New Indian Express
I am a Tam-brahm. Why wasn’t I asked to write a column?
Thank you,
Chandrachoodan “Iyer” Gopalakrishnan
The eight Chennai Photowalk
Okay! For the first time since the Photowalks began, I have had to change the sacred order of things. I am sorry, but I had no choice. I am referring, of course, to the great and holy tradition of holding the Chennai photowalks on the second Sunday of every month. But, like I said, I had no choice. I shall offer penance and bribes to the lords of the walks later but first, the details all you good folk await so patiently.
The 8th Chennai Photowalk will be on the 15th and 22nd of June, 2008. That’s right. Two different days, same walk. Seeing how we have quite a bunch of people willing to sacrifice their Sundays (at last count, 65 people. Yes. 65!) but not all of them willing to do said sacrifice on same day.
The route I have in mind for this walk is interesting. As well as slicha heart-in-mouth exciting. And, again for the first time since the Photowalks started, we will do an evening walk.
That’s right. An evening walk. We will, or I will if no one else turns up, begin the 8th Chennai Photowalk at Panagal Park in T.Nagar and proceed in an easterly direction down Thyagaraya road, or Pondy Bazaar for those not 100% clued in, and end the walk at Residency towers. In the process, we (or I) will shoot the enthusiastic (read foaming-in-the-mouth) shoppers and the characters that populate Pondy Bazaar and make Madras the retail destination it is.
Of history, Pondy Bazaar has a good deal to offer. Of photo-ops, a lot more. Once upon a city-time, T. Nagar was a large lake running parallel to Mount Road. Called the Long Tank, it fed the paddy-fields of Nungambakkam and what is now Saidapet and Ashok Nagar. Sometime in the early part of the last century, the tank was filled up and Pondy Bazaar (and T. Nagar) created to help ease the pressure of George Town.
The jewellers and the cloth merchants, the grocers and their friends have turned Pondy Bazaar into a shopper’s wet dream. And the commuter’s wet-nightmare. And that, my dear walkers, is what we will try and record on the 8th Chennai Photowalk. That will be, to repeat, on the 15th and 22nd of June, 2008, at 5:30 PM.
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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is a copywriter, photographer and goofball from Chennai. He is also an archaeologist, historian and a city lover. He is currently a documentary film-maker and desk-monkey for a film production house.
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