world population

i put a world population widget on my desktop and guess how many of us there are..?
6,672,826,335..6..7... 8... 9...

there is a disclaimer saying that the number is based on estimates only but still....

in the duration its taken me to type this post the number has gone up by 500 !

ohmegawd.

end 2007

agra

delhi

bombay

taj mahal

desire 001

mr. spandan banerjee & my day off

i'm shooting 6 days a week, the day off on saturday is really precious and mr. banerjee turned up on an early morning flight from delhi and rang my doorbell at 9 in the morning and luckily it was my day off so we smoked some early in the morning and it was the first time in the last 7 weeks that i actually had a completely relaxed, nicely unwindingly day off and he's looking a bit tired because he wakes up this early only a couple of times in a year.

maal gaadi unloading

diagonal dreams

reminded me of the phish song...
"when you're there, i sleep lengthwise and when you're gone
i sleep diagonal in my bed...."
A was away for a month casting for a film...

self portrait, 16nov07

my second arthroscopy, this time on the right knee.
the mri scan report sounded most poetic...

"...body and posterior horn
of medial meniscus shows
a bucket handle tear.
the torn fragment is
in the intercondylar region.

complete tear
of the anterior cruciate ligament
from its femoral attachment
with retraction of its distal fibers...."

life insurance corporation of india

church of our lady, madgaon

clothesline

funQy-da

funky as ever and getting old like all the rest of us, Q was in town filming for his new project, "love in india"








take a trip here

life is a beach

sentient beings on tarkarli beach ... some very alive ...


some very dead.



who is a sentient being? here
many issues come up when discussing the matter of sentience: animal rights, human rights, and artificial intelligence to name a few...this is what wikipedia has to say

juliet on the beach

two trucks and a bike

just back from a long ride.... bombay to benaulim via malvan.



juliet was in fine fettle... i enjoy riding her more and more with each trip. her engine has run itself in to 80kmph nicely. i'm waiting to see if i can hold it to a steady 100 after the next round of tinkering. her temperamental ways still surface every now and then... she'll wheeze and whine if i don't get the kick right, a sudden short in the electrics resulting in 2 blown fuses in the middle of nowhere (it was just the horn which had shorted itself in the monsoons)... but she's much better than before and i don't get fazed either. it's like being in a long term relationship is riding a bullet. you kind of get used to the idiosyncracies and just enjoy the time spent together!

ramzan food walk

route here

self portrait : kaleidoscope seed

hospital

mu2

the good mr. muttoo was in town and came over for sunday lunch.

cat