morning i get up waiting
night i go to bed with a hope
the melody of biraha from the far away construction sites
my eyes and ears are wide open
from the city comes biraha and from the sea cry of dead travelers
i wonder how my wait is different from others
nights are long and endless for all
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Ravi Sundaram: Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism
Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism,
Routledge, London and Delhi. 2010
Few years back, i read a chapter draft of Pirate modernity by Ravi S. This was on accident something so obvious, so routine yet definitional in the life of a city. Yet, accident finds its place more in the fiction and cinema and has not been seriously engaged in academic writings on the city. Speed, shocks and the dreadful encounters of unexpected all are foundational to the modernity. In the case of delhi, these come alive with various markers such as red line buses and visually thick newspaper coverage of road accidents to name a few. Ravi has looked at all these and much more to present the uncanny everyday.
Looking Forward to read Pirate Modernity.
Routledge, London and Delhi. 2010
Few years back, i read a chapter draft of Pirate modernity by Ravi S. This was on accident something so obvious, so routine yet definitional in the life of a city. Yet, accident finds its place more in the fiction and cinema and has not been seriously engaged in academic writings on the city. Speed, shocks and the dreadful encounters of unexpected all are foundational to the modernity. In the case of delhi, these come alive with various markers such as red line buses and visually thick newspaper coverage of road accidents to name a few. Ravi has looked at all these and much more to present the uncanny everyday.
Looking Forward to read Pirate Modernity.
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