every time i have visited lawrence in bangalore he recommends me a book to read during the rest of the trip. last year it was Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (be careful his self presentation on his own site is really evil) which i really enjoyed. This year he told me to read Transmission by […]
every sunday there is a guy with fortune telling robot on the place opposite of the main entrance of russell market in Bangalore. Apparently (the guy does not really speak english) the robot is about 5 years old, was built by someone from ‘down south’ who also supplies the tapes with the fortunes on them. […]
if you happen to live in Shivaji Nagar, Bangalore and you get your cable tv from Devya Satellite Vision you can watch the first installment of world information city tv tonight from 1830h to 2100h IST. World Information City TV is a project of Bombay based artist Shaina Anand and is part of the World […]
one of the works shown as part of the World-Information City exhibition is ‘Change of State’ by Ashok Sukumaran. It is a simple but effective installation of power switches, lights garlands, a cassette recorder and a couple of other electric devices on the facade of the Elgin Talkies cinema hall on Shivaji Street. During yesterdays […]
inscription on the facade of ‘Vidhana Souda’ building in Bangalore which houses the State Legislative Assembly of the State of Karnataka. Technorati Tags: bangalore, india, politics
check out this video [mp4 file – 20mb] of me and my bike having fun in Shivaji Nager / Russel Market in central Bangalore. traffic has gotten worse every time i have come here. cycling is actually the fastest (and probably most dangerous) way to get around town even though one cannot run red lights […]
there is fantastic quote in todays Times of India. in article outlining the practices of bombay underworld don Abu Salem there there is an description of a phone call he made to Bombay based movie producer Subash Ghai in order to get the overseas distribution rights for the movie Pardes: Though he terrorised the film […]
among other things i dropped my camera (a canon powershot pro1) today. i had dropped it once before and nothing had happened then but today it broke. the 30 cm fall from a table on a stone floor resulted in parts of the casing coming of the body and the trigger casing being broken so […]
i better do not mention that at the immigration control. my ipod mini seems to have a rather ahistoric view on partition: it seems to assume that it never happened, instead all of India became Pakistan. consequently there is no Indian Standard Time option in the ‘change time zone’ menu (closest thing is indeed Karachi […]
so i am back in europe for four days and today the whole concept of europe (and its sick permutations) has been omnipresent wherever i went. in the afternoon i went to the dutch pre WSIS event ‘fill the gap 3‘ organized by a couple of dutch development NGOs in an apparent attempt to get […]