there was a school-level chess competition in the auditorium today.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
fun - study
these kids were plucking imli (tamarind) (fruits? pods? i dont know the correct word) from the tree. this is in my school campus. looks like so much fun! we on the other hand are busy with exam studies, but we’re having our share of fun too. had pizza at pizza casa yesterday, i think it was a -deserved break…
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exams all of next week. won’t be logging on to the net till next weekend. wish me luck!
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photo id: 10832
exams all of next week. won’t be logging on to the net till next weekend. wish me luck!
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photo id: 10832
Friday, February 29, 2008
koli dance
these kids were reharsing yesterday in the college’s auditorium. they had their finale today.. all of them are dressed up as kolis, the fishing community that originally inhabited mumbai.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
icecream, street-style
mewad ice-cream is synonymous with ice-cream on the streets. it’s usually hand made each day by a single / group of persons, and often the maker and seller is the same person. found in all parts of mumbai, especially in khau-gullys and on beaches. aswhini from MMO and me were to once do a story on these guys, but it never happened. found this piece in The Hindu about mewad ice cream, quite an interesting read.
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for non-indian readers: mewad is a region in southern rajasthan, a few thousand kms north west of mumbai
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photo clicked at 7 bungalows beach in june 2005
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6000+ visitors. thanks!
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for non-indian readers: mewad is a region in southern rajasthan, a few thousand kms north west of mumbai
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photo clicked at 7 bungalows beach in june 2005
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6000+ visitors. thanks!
Saturday, February 2, 2008
class t-shirt
we finally got our class t-shirts today!!! we ordered them in two colours, black and white; with the same graphic and line on each. the graphic is an image of all that are / have been a part of our class.
we had originally used this composition for the cover page of our 3rd yr theory-of-design book on our families’ stories of mumbai (can see some pages of this book in my other blog, here). the original image was worked on many many times over (by manmohit, aparna, maitri, saurabh with inputs from many of us) before we finalised on this….
and then last week saurabh and maitri got around to ordering, collecting money and finally distributing the t-shirts. three cheers for them !!! the photo session that followed the distribution, was crazy, as always…
the line on the back reads:
if you cant dazzle them with brilliance
baffle them with bullshit
baffle them with bullshit
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
bamboo and coir
another view of one of the structures made in college for the building technology workshop. this one started from the first floor and aimed to reach a point in mid-air above the college lawn; made of bamboo, coir rope and binding wire, with some nylon ropes for suspension. photo of another structure of the same workshop here
Friday, January 18, 2008
class lunch
thats my class, everyday at lunch time. we have this tradition, being followed for the last four years, of sitting in two long straight rows facing each other, the early-birds getting the back rest. the linear arrangement doesn’t allow one to talk to more than four people on either side, but food gets passed to everyone. if someone’s packed lunch is green veggies, then the dabba (tiffin-box) usually switches hands through the entire group and reaches back to its owner without considerable reduction in quantity. pizzas, pasta, sandwiches, sweets, paneer (something like cottage cheeze) etc on the other hand don’t reach more than three pairs of lunch-ers beyond the origin.
