Celebrating NDP through my Instagram/Facebook feed. Now a days we are transported to events in our desire through visual stimulation to ones imagination. Social media feeds create realities every second through updates. One cannot though recreate the experience of watching the events at the Padang on the common TV with volume switched off, at the … More Instagram feed and #NDP
Happiness is discussing Pakistan's new PM with a friend from Pindi in Urdu and the popularity of Star Jalsa soaps and Mirakkel Comedy show with another friend from Barisal in Bangla, in an Andhra Restaurant over Karak Chai in Muscat. The ferocity of the popularity rather the addiction of nonsensical Star Jalsa soaps causing a … More A snippet on South Asian Integration
There are the fancy landed properties of Bukit TimahThen there are the old HDB's of KallangThen, the newly gentrified Potong Pasir or BOT landHousing is social geography The stratification of the Lion CityIs spatialThe Smart NationIs also Survival Nation Technology is for an ever buffering future The card uncle and kopitiam aunties in Sunset WayMatter … More A NDP Pean
Passport Country and Home are divorced conceptsOften mistaken for marriedIdentities are plural Preferred to be straight laced by nationalists Third Country (Gulf) are mosaicsLow Globalisation's childrenGrew up drinking RC ColaBinging on Sohar ChipsShwarma is staple fareMostly obese they areDisconnected from holiday homesIn Kerala Watching Asianet in a distant wayConnect more with lands that are arid … More Gulf Kids, a Poem
Virtual or Globally Distributed Work is quite the norm now a days with start ups or behemoths, in the digital economy work via Skype on the smart phone with declining data pack prices. I have consulted with social enterprises and start ups who work lean and digital in Singapore in the recent past and non … More Digital Distributed Work: Culture Eats Culture for Lunch
Reading is an unknown choreSpeed glance through the headlines The click baity, the better Click share, Like or bothIt's about metricsInstant gratification, instead of understanding No wonder, fake news winsNot enough time to read Research is for the nerds Critique as a mode of reading is for humanitiesWe will glance through BuzzFeedOr MenXP, Listicles are … More On Reading, a Poem
Lives were spent planning for the futureWhile the present was withered awayNow the trade offs are now between the losses, trivial and significant
Dunkirk has three points of departure for the rich Nolan Cinematic Enterprise. Nolan firstly returns with a historical adaption of the Dunkirk evacuations during the Second World War by small shipping trawlers of four hundred thousand men, as the survivors at the end of the movie reading off a newspaper, Churchill's statement to the British … More Dunkirk: Remembering the Lived Experience of War
Met a Bhutanese national for the first time who is fluent in Hindi at a Canadian Cafe in Muscat. Asked her how she knew India's so called national language as I heard her speak to her south Asian colleague and the tall yet petite woman quipped in a shy manner 'I am a big fan … More Bhutan in the Gulf
India has entrenched binariesMetropolitan Elite versus the hinterland Vernacular versus Cosmopolitan Now, Secular means GraftAnd Development for Majoritarianism Definitions are being reframed Although the basics stand still Food on the plateRoof on the headJob to support the familyThese are a few of everyone's favourite things
