Filters on Instagram/Facebook is aesthetic choice Architecture in a visual discourse, where Instagram is a near anthropological enterprise, with a key role in documenting everyday lived experiences, a field note of sorts.
Author: changethinker
Born and raised in Mumbai, India with an undergrad degree from Oman and a masters degree from the National University of Singapore. I am an Environmental Professional with a passion for Sustainability, Social Innovation and Governance related issues. A Change Agent in the making who believes that small is beautiful and that impact can be achieved -one soul at a time.
The creative paradox
The paradox of monetisation and perennial branding for the creative soul. The art declines when the focus is on the market.
Cutting edge often means sleeping hungry. Many artists struggle to pay their bills even if they are the flavour of the season. And we talk about the creative economy.
Image, a Poem
More than just a mere imageLoaded with Meaning
Nostalgia saturates the senses
Where precious years were lived
Time is not my best friend
Regional Film Songs are Global
When regional film song shoots happen overseas with bystanders overseas curiously observing the exotic nature, it exemplifies the global served for the vernacular audiences in small town India. Globalisation comes in weird shades.
The Act of Translation
In the act of translation, the literary translator lends his/her spirit to the text, many a time transforming the mechanics of the text to be accessible to a different cultural legacy. In that case, the translation is a ‘superior’ work of literary art, isn’t it?
The base text is often rudimentary.
Privileges, a Poem
Checking privileges comes throughShattering Egos
Ittjehad
Not the easiest
When life is a sledgehammer
Not forgiving
Privileges turns into informal
Clandestine Social Security
Reflecting is meditation
Hardly any time in this turbocharged digital world
But undercutting privileges
Is to be human
This act of scribbling
Is a reflection of privileges too
Places/Spaces
We don’t miss places/spaces
Rather the opportunities with it
Coordinates are spaces
Geotagged or not
Where lives are lived
Delicious Mediocrity
The middle of the bell curve Is un aspirational territory
Defines the tenant of the space
As terrifically mundane
But there is a precise, certain leeway space
No burden of expectations
The delicious prospect of mediocrity
Excellence is coupled to the market
Mediocrity is socially constructed
The nuances are a lot more liberal
About Poetry, a Poem
Poetry comes from a certain brokenness A rejection, a hurt
Rarely from celebration
Rather poetry are words
Seeping through cracks of a soul
Waiting for day break
Shedding the gloom
Through words
A certain catharsis
Experiences get double distilled
Into the world of words
The lifeworld of intellect
Simply does not satiate
The mirror of the soul
Life/Valuations
In the deafening chaosWhere money rules
The lowest common denominator wins
Value of a person his transacted
In a social community
Called the market
The chess game has its rules
Mirrors life itself
But rules are a reduction
People are not stereotypes or caricatures
Rather beautifully full
And money is not exact of it’s worth and valuations
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