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With apologies to Marcel Duchamp
Dude Descending A Staircase
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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Veena Studies
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Picture taken in RLV College of Music and Fine Arts, Tripunithura
The Loneliness Of Love
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If You Can Wait And Not Be Tired By Waiting..
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same..”
From “If - ”
(Rudyard Kipling 1895)
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Visions Of Gold
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Picture taken in Palace Road, Fort Cochin
The Reckoning
Father and son settle their breakfast bill at Sri Krishna Cafe.
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Picture taken while waiting for breakfast this morning, in Fort Cochin.
Caught In The Light
“The light will shine upon us this day”
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Picture taken shortly before seven o’clock this morning, from the steps of Mount Carmel Seminary Chapel, Fort Cochin
A Time to Discard
”A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;”
Ecclesiastes 3:6
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Picture of refuse collectors taken in Fort Cochin.
The Point Of Contact
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Morning interaction. Fort Cochin
Unexpected Guests
I receive frequent visits from welcome but unexpected guests:
sparrows who fly in from the yard.
Like most Indian homes, during daylight hours I usually keep the yard gates closed but the house doors wide open.
The birds would previously fly in and out through the ventilation gaps in our coving.
But, since moving in, I have had these gaps meshed, to keep the mosquitoes out.
The birds, like everyone else, now have to use the main doors,
though they still check-out their old access-points.
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Between The Showers
Morning errands can now be started.
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Pictures taken in Fort Cochin.
Monsoon Intermission
The rain subdues into gentle drips
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Picture taken early this morning in Fort Cochin
Braving The Monsoon
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Bird On The Wire
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Picture taken in Fort Cochin
Monsoon Reflections
A monsoon-battered bloom floats on the road.
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Picture taken outside my house.
Monsoon Confessions
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Picture taken in the Holy Cross Basilica, Fort Cochin
Baby In A Basket
My son has just sent me this picture of my grandson.
I understand he might soon graduate into a cot.
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Late Harvest
Last week we picked the last of the mangos from my yard.
These stragglers were still not yet ripe but they faced rotting if left on the tree.
And, sure enough, yesterday the monsoon arrived in earnest.
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Lunch On The Go
A vegetarian lunch palette in a Kerala roadside restaurant:
the fast-food equivalent of traditional sadya cooking.
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Picture taken in a roadside restaurant, travelling between Cochin and Kottayam.
Moving Times
For low-income families in Kerala, Sundays or night-time are the best times to move house.
Strongly unionised labour brings great benefits to the working man,
but problems for the poor, when asked to pay union rates.
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Picture taken in Fort Cochin.
