Reducing the rarity of reviews: shaping this blog

So, after much contemplation, I have decided I am going to share my opinions about the arts on this blog. I am not doing this for any other reason but to stay sane!

Fare of an Art Fair...

Is it a fair Fair?

The homonym here says a lot about the market in/of Art Fairs.

Looking at the the Abu Dhabi Art Fair, It is astonishing that the new success of a city as an art Market is now measured by the existence of an Art Fair. No doubt it is a good barometer. It is also a brilliant tool to attract big galleries, dealers, collectors and the media (critics). It is a whirlpool of business- if a gallery doesn't participate in the fair, it is out cast, and branded a 'not successful enterprise'.

But I don't think I am complaining about it!

It is fun to go to these art fairs, and if the pockets as promotional to the egos walking around, it is a good shopping mall as well!

But am I the only one who misses old school buying?

New New York

This is a city that always teaches, but seldom breaches!

Most romantics who came here, left as poets (or stayed on and became Bob Dylan!)

All the cynics who came here, left with double the pounds; as one can try but escape the New York Cheesecake sounds!

I came as an escaper, and an far from being an escapist now. Having found my cave in this enclave, I breathe easy, and will try and not attempt poetry anytime soon!

Mamta Banerjee's Railway budget!

I noticed:-

• Her damn Bengali accent...and her budget was tagged 'didi's budget' by NDTV
• Sonia Gandhi's super suave saree with a blazer!
• 'madam'...the most used words...
• she always repeats the word 'cheaper'...thrice ! (she is looking for an alternate carrier )
• ( she is sucking up to all other ministers...)
  
• and I am impressed with the bugdet..it is entertaining (missing 'lok sabha' channel breaks at MTV!)
• And Sushma Swaraj is very visibly bored.
• And she believes just because she is bengali..she can sing...I hope someone clarifies this!
• and why is skin glowing?...I honestly ask!

keyboard-fake pen!

I have been writing all through, but typing it out isn't the best venting mechanism for me.

I love writing, but typing is a pain!

Some say the pen is mightier than a sword, the typewriter may have been mighty as well (especially if you fling it across a room, considering it has no wires attached!)...but a keyboard...firstly it is useless without a monitor and printer and lots of other technology things!

SO in this writing spree, I say I want pen.and a good one...and while I'm back to wanting..I want shoes and a trip to Pondicherry and all the stuff in the store MUSE and a super cool THOUGH OF THINK?

Training TRAIN Travels!

A day ago, I was traveling by the local train in Mumbai, in the ladies compartment. Just as the train hits motion a random, drugged aged about twenty storms in the compartment. As the train has caught speed, we can’t throw him out. Not that he is in his senses, to understand much humiliation being hurled at him. First, he is requested to leave, then scolded to leave…but he responds back with “call whoever you want, I wont leave!”

Because we were a huge number of women, we didn’t feel scared, but his case was frightening enough for he was a mad man and was doing weird things! This lady comes out with this number, the Railway Police Helpline, and we call on it and ask for cops to come to our rescue at the next station.

At the next station, the cops are called, with screaming and shouting from women, and this man is dragged out, DRAGGED. But it was all hail women intelligence!

Then, with the post event discussions, it was revealed that a man from the next compartment dropped in at the station to help.

Thus help is omnipresent, just call!

How I wish I was born in the 60s...

I am not complaining about my era, but there is more than much I miss about the 60s…

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The summer of ‘69

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WOODSTALK ‘69

Fashion like Edie Sedgwick

Jumpsuits

Shiny Disco Balls

Trams in Mumbai

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Chevy

Landline phones

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Libraries

Letters, post office and stamps (and not the posts on our facebook walls)

The big Indian Rupee notes

DD (and no AAJ TAK NEWS)

More ‘Made in Japan’ goods, less ‘Made in China’ crap

More humanity, less competitiveness

More alphabets in words, and less sms language

More fields, less roads

More animals, less humans

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Basically, I’m not against evolotuin, but I think I belong to the older days, because I don’t like the Y2K fever and the flues that followed!