tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7332104658431066325.post230390493159301134..comments2024-02-26T15:26:57.043+05:30Comments on garam masala chai: What Does Water Mean to You? [Yamuna-Elbe Art Project]Gopika Nathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045583005627540260noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7332104658431066325.post-15307141762473922412016-03-01T13:11:28.750+05:302016-03-01T13:11:28.750+05:30Thanks Gioia, I seem to have missed this comment. ...Thanks Gioia, I seem to have missed this comment. I think your question about the clothes really being cleaned is a valid one given that the Yamuna that I saw when I wrote this piece was really dirty, but the Yamuna that I remember as a young girl wandering along her banks drawing there, was not dirty. I also think that a river that is not as polluted as the Yamuna is now, would clean itself quite naturally as it flows and therefore the clothes would, I suppose, turn out clean.... I do hope that you visited the Elbe on your visit to Hamburg. It would be great to have you share some thoughts on that river and the correlation that the artists participating in the Yamuna Elbe Project were making. Do keep dropping by and reading. Many thanks Gopika Nathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05045583005627540260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7332104658431066325.post-4674958575055148362015-12-27T17:58:51.069+05:302015-12-27T17:58:51.069+05:30Hi Gopika,
I just read this post because I was mi...Hi Gopika, <br />I just read this post because I was missing your musings.<br />Reading about Elbe and Yamuna reminded me that I will probably see Elbe again when I visit Hamburg next year. As for the Yamuna, I used to live few kilometers away from it at Rajpur Road/Civil Lines but by the 90ies it was not the same river as it used to be in the past. My memories of it are dhobis washing clothes and drying them on her banks. Seeing such images whilst rushing past the river in a bus or a car on the Outer Ring Road, I used to wonder whether those clothes were really clean. I never visited the river on foot. It didn't look inviting enough. <br />Your posts, it seems to me now, are my only links to North India/Delhi. They invoke bittersweet notalagia in me. This post reminded me of my own visits to the hill stations including to my sole visit to Manali. GioiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7332104658431066325.post-9167977724908272902013-06-24T19:31:49.151+05:302013-06-24T19:31:49.151+05:30Yes Julia, We are like the river and one thing tha...Yes Julia, We are like the river and one thing that I keep going back to is her blackness. It seems that in the age of darkness - dark out of ignorance, such as they call our age - Kalyug, the blackened smelly Yamuna is indeed a reflection of this. We see the pollution all around us and even within us. Its the TIME, and where does the blame stop?Gopika Nathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05045583005627540260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7332104658431066325.post-27965578253207071262013-06-22T10:14:35.760+05:302013-06-22T10:14:35.760+05:30Hi Gopika,
Until I came to Bombay in '72, I ne...Hi Gopika,<br />Until I came to Bombay in '72, I never thought of water. There was so much of it, or so little, it was liquid or solid, even vapour in parts, during winter, in Shillong. When I went to Elephant Falls, the sound was haunting and the water just ran down from the hill. There were rivers and lakes all over - I took it for granted. In Bombay, the water during the rains was cause for much worry; maybe one would be stranded at Churchgate, maybe this, maybe that. Then came water as a commodity - one bought it, like as if it was manufactured. So many ways to look at water. But just like electricity, I am very aware that it is getting scarce, and we are to blame for it. Hence, when I see the swollen Yamuna, or for that matter, I see the Ganga, bursting forth and raging through the destruction she is incurring around her, all I think is, she who is life, or a life giver, can kill, or wreck destruction too.We are like her, both and many things in one, just like the different expressions you spoke of, in your post.Julia Duttahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08846895945401962741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7332104658431066325.post-89988527179103957292013-06-22T10:12:38.106+05:302013-06-22T10:12:38.106+05:30This comment has been removed by the author.Julia Duttahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08846895945401962741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7332104658431066325.post-20038309462992576932013-06-19T18:02:25.385+05:302013-06-19T18:02:25.385+05:30This comment has been removed by the author.Julia Duttahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08846895945401962741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7332104658431066325.post-70268818336645951462011-12-21T21:36:13.763+05:302011-12-21T21:36:13.763+05:30Thanks Gigi and Kanchan. Am delighted that both of...Thanks Gigi and Kanchan. Am delighted that both of you found the time to read and respond.:-)Gopika Nathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05045583005627540260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7332104658431066325.post-53438683718179712912011-12-19T21:23:31.827+05:302011-12-19T21:23:31.827+05:30Hi Gopika, sorry for a late feed back, couldn'...Hi Gopika, sorry for a late feed back, couldn't get time to sit and read. Very insightful and engaging.Thanks a lot. GigiGigi Scarianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7332104658431066325.post-18048264639512959942011-12-16T20:50:55.783+05:302011-12-16T20:50:55.783+05:30Very interesting...gopika...
kanchanVery interesting...gopika...<br />kanchankanchanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14783796345869806960noreply@blogger.com