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Jan 4, 2009

Dec 22, 2008

Trains and Travels

On the train to Nice

We met an Italian
who was reading
the Gita.

Shri Shri Massimo
I named him.

The Cote d'Azur

bluest blue I have ever seen

Bed and Breakfast Gilda
Torino

Castello del Valentino

Icograda Design Week
Torino

Pisa.

The leaning tower was ugly
I loved the buldings and the windows though.

Florence

A Spritz at Venice...

...didn't really stop
my feet from freezing.

The Kiss
at Vienna
we couldn't take pictures
:-/

Fairytale castles
Bratislava

Dec 17, 2008

Being Jew

Black birds sit

on this metal tree.

This is a tree

Each cold leaf

is a person

whose family

wishes

to remember them.

The leaves don't

rustle in the wind

They clang loudly

as stiff as the

dead that they

represent.

Jewish memorial, Budapest

Dec 12, 2008

Bride Wanted: the film

This is a film made by Sarah Dacosta (batchmate, first roommate, and my louwe) as part of her documentary project at NID. She's used my Bride Wanted illustrations in the film.

BRIDE WANTED from Sarah Dacosta on Vimeo.

Go here to give her feedback :)

Oct 25, 2008

She points at my Tamil
handwriting and asks
"Is this what you
speak in India?"
I try to explain.

We speak in different
languages in
different parts of the
country.

Her eyes grow wide.
She blinks twice.
Her English fumbles.
She blurts out in
Arabic and then
stops.
"You mean different
accents. yes
Different languages?!
But
Ow it is possibbol
Ow?" Fateh wonders.

Wow says the girl
from Chicago
Y'mean they're compleetly
diffrent?
Like, y'cant understand
what he says?

At this point, I'm tired
My English fumbles.

How do you explain to
someone that A language
does not unite your
country?