It was a fast week. Very fast, very insecure in its form, it did not want to be a week. The days passed on very fast, and it feels too early for March to have arrived. I spent much of this week thinking about friendships in my life: the difficulty of making new friends beyond social ease, taking care of the gel that previously bound you or realising that sometimes, I can let go. Conversations are difficult to continue, lifestyles change, and boundaries are discovered. I often thought and still, to some extent, think that friendships must be able to assert opinion, responsibility and some say/power in the lives within each other lives. This has been in conflict with my cultural-shock in bangalore. There are walls between frienships that i’ve learnt exist by choice.
I am slowly figuring out the Omeka S ecosystem. And their design choices are slowly making sense
I watched Agninatchathiram because a debate broke up between Shreyas, me and Naveen in the car. He argued that the portion with the rapid violin in Karthick’s Thooriga, at 0:55 is an untampered copy from the same stretch of violin inIlayaraja’s Ninnukori Varanam, at 0:30. Ninnukori Varanam is from Agninatchathiram, and Shreyas wondered how I had not watched it.
I watched Ghilli and Indira on the same day. Indira gave me goosebumps, but I could not follow Agninatchathiram very well. ‘Follow’ here translates to ‘I kept fastforwarding’. One of these films is not like the other. Two are set in Chennai, one is not in the city. Two are directed by male directors, they follow love and conflict in that. One is a female director. Individual love is not the primary concern of this.
- Aman and Vivek visited Yelahanka, we discovered a new road that is being laid to connect New Town to Attur, building over what is a wetland. connected to the Attur Lake. I remember Attur was being desilted, and we could go down to the lake floor. I wonder what is the relationship between desilting and loss of wetlands and marshes in urban spaces
- Some folks asked if they could take a couple of ripe jackfruits hanging from the tree inside YNC, they gave us some. I had not tasted them in a long time…Neither have I ever extracted them myself. Learnt of the sappyness. I was amazed by how complex the fruit is…
“Where does hate survive?”
After many months, I’ve resolved my own thoughts on this project. To somebody, I write:
It took me so long to find time to spend on the archive. I spent some time thinking about what it means to collect this, and I think this must concern (or atleast my curatorial intent is that) the media ecosystem more than the tangible events themselves. I realise that the HW archive contains a broad variety of commentary in the form of op-eds, and I do not mean to include the full breadth of the existing archive. But It will be a broad enough collection. I believe it must reflect public / and or media representation of the times as I begin to write in the home page
I have begin to write a script to begin collecting the source links from the HW archived link. I will then begin requesting wayback machine to archive. Although paywalls are a big concern. I looked at the Bellingcat archiver, but i want these to be publicly accessible archives, so i will use the wayback machine for now.
I’ve worked on the interface a bit to make it more intuitive to use, so do please take a look.
