An encounter I dreamt that I decided to visit school. The place where I studied as a child was a wonderful oasis of stone buildings, long pathways and drives, misty banyan trees and field after field for hockey, throwball, basketball – named by game. Fertile … Continue readingDreaming with the Devil
A killer whale holds her trainer’s foot and refuses to let go There are many videos out there of Kasatka, a female killer whale owned by Sea World, doing a surprise attack on trainer Ken Peters. You can watch the long version, the short version, … Continue readingThe Killer Whale’s Guide to Going on Strike
A lot more than a year ago There is a term now for people who practice yoga alone at home. It’s ‘home practitioner.’ Sounds straightforward, if you forget that once upon a time, a large number of people who practiced yoga in India did this, … Continue readingA Personal and Mutable TimeLine of Ashtanga Yoga’s #Metoo ‘Crisis’
Chapter 1: Of Streets, Statues and the Notion of Work What is a human statue? A human statue is an anachronistic presence, an unlawful occupation of time and space. An imitator of a statue or sculpture, a shadow with its own life. The statue is … Continue readingPermission to Work on the Street
Rationalizing revisiting The first time you visit a place, you know it by sensory perception – it feels like concrete, smells like grass, tastes like fermented fruit. The second time is like eating the entire fruit, pips and all; the hard skin, the bitter seeds, … Continue readingThe Hostile State of the Balkans
A wedding ritual I don’t often get to see the actual ritual of a wedding, in its entirety. One of the rare times that I did, I watched it in a rage, and towards the end I started to feel desperate for escape, almost like … Continue readingRituals and the Performance of Being
Escape When I was nineteen, I made my first non-familial trips out into the world that was accessible with an overnight bus or train from Bangalore. Gokarna was the second place I visited, during that time. That first cutting of the thread, or cord, is … Continue readingLearning How to Leave Gokarna
We talked about the monstrous divine, in the days leading up to the making of this video. We also talked about our own interactions, which could be pretty monstrous at times. It’s a little unclear how we all came back together long enough to make … Continue readingThings That Crawl Out of Empty Wells
Katerina and I discovered a mutual fascination for trees, roots, sidelined sculptures, mini-explorations of micro-spaces, the transformation of urban worlds into tiny, transient bubbles. This made for a sudden explosion of collaboration that was also transient, as perhaps it should be. A magical sculpture-installation, a … Continue readingSculptures, Trees and the City: Explorations of Micro-Worlds
Sportspersons, they’re public figures, aren’t they? They embody this collective fascination with the human body and its capacities, and just like watching a good choreography gives you little twinges in your body, watching a beautiful run seems to release some lactic acid, free your joints. … Continue readingKala