10/21/08

10/15/08

sur ban lay Thaye (when sur becomes lay)

Ajab Duniya jaariya kahan hai
jaan paryo na mein ka, aage paachhe re

baithe jyo guni yeh hai, poochhat inaso mein
bataide kahan, ye aage paachhe re

(raga :hameer, composition by Pt.Kumar Gandharva)

why am i quoting this?
because this starts running in veins,
a truth again to be narrated in an expression.
a sur.a lay.a feeling.
he does it and you carry it within.
one doesn't only sing it.
it kills me.
just that.

ajab duniya continues
(in a loop)

10/5/08

k a j a r i

preet kari toh ab kyun roye
ro ro apna jeevan khoye

kyun mathe tilak lagaye sajaniya?
(from a traditonal 'kajari'in Des)

may be when i have no answers
i grope with the words written by unknown people
lost in tradition.alive in music.
if there were answers,nothing would be
written or sung or expressed.
(note:preet,here i feel is love at large in all its forms felt towards all alive and gone)
and may be the ultimate is to get lost to never find it!

"get lost",they say.it makes sense.

10/2/08

as it is

amazed
surprised
romantic
circulating
upsetish
hanging
wondering
freezing
running
alone
i sit in one place.

a railway platform.

UNAFFECTED@4AM
(misty,dark and cold light travels from one to other)

9/26/08

9/20/08

in there

RAIN DOESN'T TELL
HER ANYTHING
ANYMORE.
IT JUST
GIGGLES AT HER
PUTS HER BACK IN THERE .

YOU CAN ONLY SEE HER HAIR.

9/16/08

the two


bihag and marubihag come along like two friends,
two ends of the same spectrum.
of sweetness and of pathos.
of undying hope and of longing.
complementary and yet connected.

i found my dry eyes shining back with water.
and i could relate to the bandish.eyes are an only truth.


e mora re
tumaso laagi
laagi naina
laagi naina, hamare

aao aao garava lagao
sada rang more balama re
e mora re

(naina:eye; mora:mine; garava:neck,body; balama: friend)

9/11/08

manichi mani

she is like a cloud up in the sky
waiting to say a hello and burst into water.
i love her a lot,
beautifully she flows.
she looks at me
to find me gazing
at her liquid shadow.
one woman in me,she is.

9/10/08

Work we did with Swach

publicity material for a waste management initiative in the city with Pune Municipal Corporation and Swach
these are two sides of an each foldable card.
1.


2.

9/9/08

an answer to a question never asked



an ongoing project on bathrooms as private spaces.
images:junuka deshpande

8/29/08

dream

i is all i have.
may be you is all you do.

webmaker webmaker,

who is who
in this big damn dream?

8/28/08

Sakhi man lagena


Sakhi man lage na
Kahu jatan jin
manat nahi mora jiya samazay rahi
Sakhi....
Na jaanu baalam
mile kab hun preet lagaye pachhataye
Sakhi....
(bageshree)

i fly and drown once again and forever...
don't know why it hits so hard
hits and stays..strays..stays
no words to say what i actually want to say
why?

8/27/08