December 2011
32 posts
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The Girl From Rio
Vintage Film Advert for ‘The Girl From Rio’, 1927. Picture by Charmaine Zoe on Flickr. Starring Carmel Myers, Walter Pidgeon. Directed by Tom Terriss.
Dec 31st
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Monsoon Conversation
Photograph by anhtu, on Flickr.
Dec 30th
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Tatra Bollywood Style
Tatra 603, four-door sedan, produced 1956–1962, assembled at Kopřivnice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia
Dec 29th
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Outline
Father drank; mama was good as good can be, the kids grew up to join the petty bourgeoisie. The daughter's nouveau riche, the son's idealistic views have made him anchorman for prime-time TV news. Pa deceived the people, Ma deceived papa, the children, worldly-wise, trust no one very far. By Hando Runnel (1938- ), Estonian poet. Translated by Elmar Maripuu. From Walter M. Cummins (ed.),...
Dec 28th
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Those Words I Said
I discovered that the word is a woman who can Move mountains from their places, Water from the seas, Governments from their seats And repeat the writing of history round the world. From “Those Words I Said”, Nabil Janabi, Iraqi poet and dissident. (In Geoffrey Bould (ed.), Conscience Be My Guide - An Anthology of Prison Writings)
Dec 27th
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“Even when the French try to use flexibility to nudge the other side to...”
– [From Elaine Sciolino’s La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life.]
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Waheeda
(Waheeda Rehman from the poster of the 1965 film, Guide, by Meanest Indian, on Flickr).
Dec 17th
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Repair
(Professional Service Guaranteed! by Meanest Indian, on Flickr.)
Dec 16th
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Village Art
Door stencils en route to Ranakpur, by Meanest Indian, on Flickr.
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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R.I.P. Mario Miranda
Mario João Carlos do Rosario de Brit de Miranda (1926 - 2011). Indian cartoonist of genius.
Dec 13th
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Alif Allah
الف اللہ چمبے دی بوٹی alif allah chambe di booti تے میرے مرشد من وچ لائی ہُو te mere murshid mann wich laai - hu نفی اثبات دا پانی دے کے nafi asbaat da paani de ke ہر رگے ہر جائی ہُو har rage har jaai – hu جگ جگ جیوے میرا مرشد سوہنا jug jug jeeve mera murshid sohna ہتھ جس ایہہ بوٹی لائی ہُو hath jis eih booti laai - hu پیر میریا - جگنی جی peer meriya - jugni ji اے وے الله...
Dec 13th
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Epicure
My meat shall all come in Indian shells, Dishes of agate, set in gold, and studded, With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies... My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, Knots, godwits, lampreys. I myself will have The beards of barbels served instead of salads; Oiled mushrooms; and the swelling unctuous paps Of a fat pregnant sow, newly cut off, Drest with an exquisite and...
Dec 12th
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Madhubala
Dec 11th
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Madhubala
मैं मधुबाला मधुशाला की, मैं मधुशाला की मधुबाला! मैं मधु-विक्रेता को प्यारी, मधु के धट मुझपर बलिहारी, प्यालों की मैं सुषमा सारी, मेरा रुख देखा करती है मधु-प्यासे नयनों की माला। मैं मधुशाला की मधुबाला! (Harivanshrai Bachchan, ‘Madhubala’, 1936)
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Tika II
Delhi Street Art. C215: Tika II by Meanest Indian, on Flickr
Dec 7th
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“[Duke] Ellington was installed in a split-level honeymoon suite at the Taj Mahal...”
– Naresh Fernandes, “Hot Jazz and the Cold War in 1950s Mumbai”, India Ink, New York Times blog, 3 November 2011.
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Ballet Beauty 2
Flora Fabbri in Jérusalem by Verdi, 1848, on Gallica. Flora Fabbri made her debut at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and danced throughout Italy during the late 1830s and 1840s, often partnered by her French husband Louis (or Luigi) Bretin. In 1845 she became a soloist at the Paris Opéra, appearing in La Sylphide, Paquita, and the divertissements in Verdi’s opera Jérusalem and...
Dec 4th
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Operatic Beauty 5
Jeanne Sophie Charlotte Cruvelli (1826-1907) by Emile Desmaisons, via Gallica.) “By September Verdi could inform De Sanctis that the first four acts of his new opera were complete; all that remained were the fifth act, the ballet and the scoring. (‘An opera for the Opéra is enough work to fell and ox. Five hours of music. Phew!’) Rehearsals began the following month only to be...
Dec 3rd
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Operatic Beauty 4
Eugénie Garcia (1815-1880) of the Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique, by Louis Jules Etex, via Gallica. Jan. 7, 1838. Madame Manuel (Eugenie) Garcia, who follpws with eclat in the steps of her sister-in-law, Madame Malibran, made her debut last season at the great theatre of Parma, in the part of Amina, in the Sonnambula of Bellini. Her facility in speaking the French language, added to...
Dec 2nd
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Ballet Beauty
Fanny Elssler (1810-1884) of the Académie Royale de Musique, by Henri Grevedon, via Gallica.
Dec 1st
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