let's not begin with the punctuated laugh but with the smallness of the underprise, its variance with the line and its underbelly of memory that which goes deeper than the I of sink, that which goes softer than the blue of see as surely as the mad are free
It’s a familiar work travel routine: plush hotels, bucket list food, occasional novelty, less-than-yous glossed over by the exotica, faarigh goras and uss se bhi faarigh local goras. In short, ‘D’evelopment ballay ballay!
And then there was this ambivalence to Development - perhaps even resistance - we witnessed in the Chitral valley just two weeks back. And I don’t think it a coincidence that the smiles in Chitral come from a place diametrically opposed to where modernity lies, smug in its well-mannered solitaryness.
Flying over Bangkok, the symmetric geometry reminded me of a similar european city flyover years ago. At the time, there was awe; now, not. Holding on to what is all-too-human is a challenge after such vivisection.
what is differentiable is not duality but the circumference of the possible how the two taos can intersect without exchanging DNA how the commingling of variables are born into fear and the opposite of fear the dance of undifferentiated duals cringing at the prospect of being set apart by prose, by war and their priests -