...the Noise!!!
Why do our festivals have to be so noisy? I now associate any Indian festival with loudspeakers that blare out so-called music even during unearthly hours. I have been hearing aartis with dhinchak dhinchak beats in the background, like the ones you hear in auto-rickshaws being played in cars while they take the ganpati for visarjan.
Urghh!! The rubbish people can come up with!
Against the Calculus of Skin
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I have a new essay in Ananke magazine's 10th anniversary special edition.
My essay is titled 'Against the Calculus of Skin'. I was thinking of how
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...and not to forget the pirates of percussion, stiff drunk, drumming their way all over the street making exceptionally fat aunties dance in the middle of the street.
Its a new low in religious insanity.
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