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buoyant

buoyant

A hat rack of varied careers. Presently teaching at a film school full time. Want to write and photograph full time instead though i do a bit alongside. Have authored 'The Bollywood Cookbook'. My recent photography is up on www.flickr.com/photos/bouyant and www.jpgmag.com/people/bouyant

My blog http://bulbulm.blogspot.com/ more »
  • mumbai, india
  • member since September 1 2007

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  • Revathi S

    Revathi S says

    Hey there!

    Thanks!. Yes, coelho makes for a light reading.. after an intense read :-)

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jillmarie

    jillmarie says

    I found the book! He's amazing...simply amazing..."Permission to Fly" is one of my favourites...Thank you so much for turning me onto his work...The travelogue included was an an additional gift, as the images certainly are enough to carry one along....

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jillmarie

    jillmarie says

    I will try to google bhajju shyam + london jungle book...and give you my impressions...cheers for the info....I love your blog btw....

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jillmarie

    jillmarie says

    If you haven't already...come join us!

    http://www.last.fm/

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nicky M

    Nicky M says

    Thanks, bouyant! I love your photos, are they all from Maharastra?

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jim

    Jim says

    Thankyou for accepting my friendship. Looking forward to the real work. : )

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jim

    Jim says

    I have an idea, how bout a site/club here on Shelfari where writers/poets/ bloggers can post 24/7 in a continous scroll of publishing. Also, author posts links. to post photos and vids link to wordpress. The Wasted Vigil is definately a book I'd like to read. My Sis has been a missionary in Kabul for the past five years:Woman of Hope.Org.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jim

    Jim says

    I network here to Wordpress. At ave A Gallery in Index, Wa. You can see it on Flickr (in the snow). I am all for positive energy and the blessings of creating a virtual platform via the unique qaulities of the individual artist. I'd like to begin a new post in wordpress which links /lists your sites and others for sharing of ideas, work and inspiration. in Collage I co founded a
    mag. called PreSent - evolving editors evolving mediums. that was long ago. we were ahead of our time (pre computer)LOL . In Index I produced a Video Magazine: Rock Solid Adventure Video.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jim

    Jim says

    Thank you for your post. I'm looking foward to viewing more of your work. Shalimar the Clown was an enjoyable engaging intelligent read. I'll be on the look out for Rushdie in the second hand books. Are you interested in networking...?

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • maniac77

    maniac77 says

    you've attended Vipassana?

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jim

    Jim says

    Buoyant, Your photos of "Faith" capture the essence of beauty, spirit. Astounding color.
    Thank you for sharing with the world the blessings of your life.

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jillmarie

    jillmarie says

    Love to see you recommending Rushdie...*smile*...Thought of you just a few minutes ago actually. Was reading Arundhati Roy's "9 is not 11" essay at www.outlookindia.com. Powerful is an understatement. Have you read it? Are you very familiar with her politics? She's quite refreshing isn't she now ehh?

    Speaking of Rushdie, there's another article posted in the same publication by Kenan Malik entitled "Hushed Into Silence."

    "Rushdie's critics lost the battle - The Satanic Verses continues to be published. But they won the war. The argument at the heart of the anti-Rushdie case - that it is morally unacceptable to cause offence to other cultures - is now widely accepted."

    ...just sharing some evening reading with ya...hope this finds you well and safe...

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jim

    Jim says

    Thank you Bouyant for your suggestion of Midnights Children- I shall place it on my plan to read shelf, and look out
    for it in the used book stores.

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jim

    Jim says

    I'm loving " Shalimar the clown." A first time reader of Rusdie. Any suggestions in this direction?

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jillmarie

    jillmarie says

    Don't Die Until You've Read:

    Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

    From Her Page:

    Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.

    It's a simple story; love found, love lost, love found again - maybe. The unnamed narrator falls for a married woman called Louise. Louise leaves her husband but when she finds she has cancer, she leaves her new lover too. Written on the Body is a journey of self-discovery made through the metaphors of desire and disease.

    All of my books are about boundaries and desire - the boundaries we should try to cross, like fear and class and skin-colour and expectation, and the boundaries that seem to define us, such as our sense of self, our gender. Disease, especially a disease like cancer or aids, breaks down the boundaries of the immune system and forces a new self on us that we often don't recognise. Our territory is eaten away. We are parcelled out into healthy areas and metastasised areas. Parts of us are still whole, too much has been invaded.

    Against this, I wanted to look again, (I am always looking again) at love's ability to shatter and heal simultaneously. Loving someone else destroys our ideas of who we are and what we want. Priorities change, friends change, houses change, we change. Part of the strangeness of being human is our need of boundaries, parameters, definitions, explanations, and our need for them to be overturned. For most people, only the positives of love and faith (and a child is both), or the negatives of disaster and disease, achieve this. Death comes too late. The final shattering affects others, but not ourselves.

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet says

    ahh, i thought itwas agender thing, if you are inviting me as a poet, i am obliged to join:)

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jillmarie

    jillmarie says

    Beloved is the next read ehh? Wow, that was a difficult one to get through...I recall that I didn't really care for the film much either....I do recalll being interested in her meanings of personal suffering in the book...Important to note I didn't finish the book either...LOL...

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet says

    thanks for the invite, but do you think i am wicked?

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )


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