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  • Wait a bit

    What’s your favorite recipe?

    I must confess, I hardly make a thing. Women around me are such proficient cooks.

    Not that I mind learning how to cook Indian food. Especially traditional Indian food.

    Every Indian house, where women take pleasure in cooking, and attempt to keep family members healthy via their cooking, becomes a cooking powerhouse.

    But the question doesn’t imply that I must cook. At the same time, how would I know the recipe if I didn’t cook. Goddddd! Sometimes, you have to revisit the question even as you are typing the answer.

    Favorite recipe, it will emerge. You wait, I will write about it.

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  • Moods

    For me, in my life, my moods are a contingency-generator. And perhaps for all those who are attached to me.

    Contingency Generator.

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  • Vacation

    I can’t get this thought out of my head. I call it Tennis Vacation. You need a good parcel of land for that. In India, that’s difficult.

    Similar to that, in a slightly different shape. Bookotel.

    Repeat that. Bookotel.

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  • Presumptuous

    Daily writing prompt
    How would you design the city of the future?
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    The city of the future won’t be of a singular type.

    And it would be presumptuous of anyone to ‘design’ such a city. May be, some town planners can lay claim to designing a city, but you really think that a city can be designed by someone!

    Okay, wait. I know you are asking an imaginative question and I am running it down. But that’s my limit I suppose. I can design so much less than a city even in my imagination.

    So let’s rephrase this question and answer. What would be my contribution to the city of the future? If the city of the future would have women with ears for earrings, then I would open a huge store of earrings. Would that be good enough? Or am I expected to do more?

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  • What are your top ten favorite movies?

    I come across this question early morning, sipping coffee, reading Niklas Luhmann’s LOVE AS PASSION – A CODIFICATION OF INTIMACY.

    So I have to scratch my head a bit to get back to my ordinary senses and extract a couple of names… Generally, just can’t bring myself to commit 2-3 hours of time to movie-watching.

    Some here:

    Ghulami, a movie from the Indian cinema of 80s

    Guide

    Khamoshi

    V for Vendetta

    In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)

    Dunkirk / Interstellar

    Terminator – Judgment Day

    On another day, such a list might not read the same. But I have no doubt that I would consider these my favorites anyway.

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  • Morning Story

    What positive emotion do you feel most often?

    I do not yet think that we have named them all, the emotions we talk about.

    Playful. That’s the positive emotion I feel most often. A result of that emotion is this.

    And then, since the question has these words ‘feel most often’, and since it is just this morning that I discovered the expression or the name closest to what I feel most often, I am glad to share that in this very post.

    AMBIGUOUS LOSS.

    Wait. I reached this expression because of a certain playfulness that I exhibit every morning, and that which makes me search for exciting book titles…

    It was important to talk about both in the same breath.

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  • A ‘How’ Question

    How do you look for books to read?

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  • Couplet

    We won’t stop buying.

    It is important to spend time on great making.

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  • Plan

    How do you plan your goals?

    Here’s the plan:

    Verbalize the goal if you can. I mean spell it out. Word it.

    Listen to the words.

    Keep the words on your tongue.

    Take a step. Two. Three.

    Repeat the words of your goal.

    Write about the steps in whatever funny way you find.

    Take more steps.

    Write…

    Take more steps.

    Write…

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  • What a term!

    Unidentical Repetition

    Courtesy: Owen Barfield

    Wow!

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  • M

    What is a word you feel that too many people use?

    I wrote about this in a post a few months back.

    MANAGE

    That word that means ‘doing nothing’ or ‘handling through inertia’.

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  • This surely does

    What brings you peace?

    A good morning run followed by concentrated, perhaps solitudinal, work in the studio.

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  • The new way to shop…

    Sorry, and congratulations, if you already do it this way.

    Search for something. Visit FB and Insta frequently in the coming days. Click on ads that appear related to your search. More ads will come your way with more options related to your search.

    You get to scan through the options. May be then you make your decision.

    Online shopping is convenient but it has started taking time. And that’s not such a bad thing.

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  • Desk and Top

    For so long I’ve been using ‘laptop’ as my desktop. I feel strange now.

    It is a matter of research, what shape you give to your desktop. What are the options that do not let a laptop like mine dominate my desk?

    Another project begins. Wow! I’ll post a picture. I am sad and excited. Have you had such a feeling?

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  • Thing?

    Daily writing prompt
    What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?
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    When I speak to myself about ‘the most important thing’, I ask, “thing means what?”

    That’s right. Thing means what?

    Say, the most important thing to carry is my ‘sling bag’. Does it mean a bag without any thing that the bag is meant to carry? Or, does it mean the bag with all the things that I usually carry?

    Thinking of my sling bag, I have to ask, can your car be the most important thing? Or your motorcycle? But then do you carry it or does it carry you? Or ‘carry’ doesn’t work when speaking of a car? Do you notice that ‘carry’ and ‘car’ both have ‘car’? Does it bother you?

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  • Book Titles

    What are you curious about?

    Surely, am curious about Book Titles.

    To be more general, am curious about Names. Histories of Names.

    Am curious about Analogies.

    Am curious about Aphorisms.

    Shapes.

    My future. Romantic interests. Owen Barfield. Coleridge.

    Wow, am curious about a lot of things. The list has just begun.

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  • Time-pipe

    This post is about the expression ‘time-frame’.

    Notice the word ‘frame’.

    Replace it with some other words, and then imagine.

    Time-box

    Time-pipe

    Time-quilt

    Time-lake

    Did it strike you? What’s happening?

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  • Sing or…

    How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?

    Is there a purpose to describing yourself?

    You gotta sing a song, may be record it, and email it across.

    Record a poem otherwise in your voice. Or write one, and record, and email it across.

    Or get a miniature of yourself crafted and send it across.

    Describing yourself takes more than words, more so if one can’t see you.

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  • It has just begun

    Was today typical?

    Yes, it has been a typical morning. Except that I do not wake up to the sounds of the rain outside.

    I am hunting, sorry scrolling for good titles to explore interesting books.

    Key words:

    Attach

    Source

    Box

    Generator

    Storage

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  • Here’s how!

    How would you describe yourself to someone?

    I ask this question often whenever I find myself teaching a new class.

    Now that you are asking me:

    Banyan Tree

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