What lengths for alcohol!!!
This is from when Sanjay came to visit me in Chennai. We had gone to Mahabalipuram which is kinda like Hikka.. the video details how we got beer.. even though it was Gandhi Jayanti and officially a dry day…
Me the podcaster
This is a test podcast done in collaboration with James Hardy, Murtaza Wardak and Jessica Irani. Its about music sharing and whether or not it is ethical.
No prizes for guessing where a bunch of avid (but poor) music fans like ourselves take this debate!
it starts…
Some are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them - or so the saying goes. Taking that one step further I guess we can assume that some people are born to write blogs while others have blogs thrust upon them - I fall into the latter category. Its not like I haven’t been MEANNG to write a blog - I’ve been meaning to start up a blog documenting my time in India ever since I got here, which was like erm.. 7 months ago? So I guess this classroom excercise is a pretty good thing, because now I can kill two birds with one stone. That is… I fulfil the requirements for this workshop and I finally get my blog off the ground.
Ofcourse there is the usual drawback. Where do I start? How do I condense seven months worth of experience into one blog post, sitting in lab 3 of the Asian College of Journalism? It’s been an intense time - friends have been made - some for life (or at least I’d love to think so), friend circles have changed with little or no regret, transitions have happened, there have been tense times bordering on the ugly, there is all that I have learned, there is all that I’m learning… there is what I will learn… both in class and out of it (such as how to eat pani poori and bargain with unscrupulous auto drivers in Tamil) and now I’m beginning to wish I had done this seven months ago.
But to use another cliche and hackneyed term - Better late than never… What we need here is a structure. So I will not attempt to recap - because that bores me and my notorious memory always lets me down. SO what i will do is blog in the present and resort to flashbacks as, when and IF they occur to me.
But I will give you an idea of who I am and what and where I am right now. (through pictures - because apparently they’re worth a 1000 words apiece)
Thats ME
And these are my FRIENDS:
