So Biju lay on his mattress and watched the movement of the sun through the grate on the row of buildings opposite. From every angle that you looked at this city without a horizon, you saw more buildings going up like jungle creepers, starved for light, holding a perpetual half darkness congealed at the bottom, the day shafting through the maze, slivering into apartments at precise and fleeting times, a cuprous segment visiting between 10 & 12 perhaps, or between 10 & 10:45, between 2:30 & 3:45. As in places of poverty where luxury is rented out, shared, and passed along from neighbor to neighbor, its time of arrival was noted and anticipated by cats, plants, elderly people who might sit with it briefly across their knees. But this light was too brief for real succor and it seemed more the visitation of a beautiful memory than the real thing.
- extract from "The Inheritance Of Loss" , Kiran Desai
Where : Suntec City, Singapore
When : 25th April 2009
12 comments:
hahaha.. layi bhari!! nice title..
Buss ka Rao, fakasta title bhaari ani aamche photu navha ka? Tey kaai bi aso, aami tumchey aabhari ahot, ithey yeoon 2 shabood livlyaa baddal.
arey ofcourse.. that goes without saying.. 1st one tar kharach bhari.. me itkya wela tikde geloy pan asa photo ghetla nahi kadhi.. i cant believe it's my lack of imagination, it certainly must be that camera of yours ;-)
Tu ekhadhya item barobar gela as'sheel mhanoon tuzhi nazar var naahi geli. Anyways, next time I suggest you go there in late evening (alone) and watch the sun cast peculiar warm shadows on one of the towers. This one I took while standing next to the fountain of wealth.
Wow! The second one looks like something straight out of a graphics novel - hard to believe it's a pic. Lovely. Keep 'em coming.
Ano,
Thanks. It's amazing how early morning & late evening light transforms a mundane landscape into dreamscape :)
your own new place in mumbai...cool...congrats...
vi
Vi,
Thanks. So far I have taken just the first step of giving a token (which is anything but token by any strech of imagination). Now got to take 3 or 4 more steps before getting hold of the papers. Fingers crossed, it should be a done deal within next couple of months.
I dont want to live in an apartment .. I wish I had a small independent duplex house .. *sigh*
the pictures are amazing .. can you click mine.. when we meet ? :D I'm never satified with the way I look in photus.. ohh make me look like meena kumari .. at least once.. :|
Aria ji,
Welcome back :-)
As for making you look like Meena Kumari, try practising holding a goblet of wine in your delicate hands, leave the rest to me & my cam.
I am guessing this is from Tower 4 ?
This view is from street level. I snapped these pics while standing on the pavement next to the "Fountain Of Wealth" & few frames from the steps which lead downwards to the fountain underpass.
Thanks for browsing through @ Gyanban
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