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Downstairs Room with Table Fan, Inderpuri
New Delhi, India
DAY 2
Paid an advance for a Canon Legria HF M56 camcorder :) Things are finally moving in the external world! Tried making a timeline-of-sorts on Dadi's life - marking landmark events. Birth, shift etc. Not much success. Too many fill-in-the-blanks. Plus how does one define 'landmark.' Her definition of the word. Important events in HER life. Read up a bit about the cultural scene in India during the 1950s, the time when Dadi shifted to Delhi and started working as a teacher. Some pretty cool stuff in the film industry. Music was widely appreciated. The muslim writers found refuge in the film industry after partition. They wrote poetry, which were used as lyrics in songs. And therefore, the old black-n-white sing-and-dance routines we see on TV today is far more 'soulful' than the crap spewed out by the current lyricists. Not like there isn't good music today. But its less than yesterday. Meethe pravachan se he jeevan acchi tarah vyateet hota hai. Meethi boli, prem ki goli.
Downstairs Room with Table Fan, Inderpuri
New Delhi, India
DAY 2
Paid an advance for a Canon Legria HF M56 camcorder :) Things are finally moving in the external world! Tried making a timeline-of-sorts on Dadi's life - marking landmark events. Birth, shift etc. Not much success. Too many fill-in-the-blanks. Plus how does one define 'landmark.' Her definition of the word. Important events in HER life. Read up a bit about the cultural scene in India during the 1950s, the time when Dadi shifted to Delhi and started working as a teacher. Some pretty cool stuff in the film industry. Music was widely appreciated. The muslim writers found refuge in the film industry after partition. They wrote poetry, which were used as lyrics in songs. And therefore, the old black-n-white sing-and-dance routines we see on TV today is far more 'soulful' than the crap spewed out by the current lyricists. Not like there isn't good music today. But its less than yesterday. Meethe pravachan se he jeevan acchi tarah vyateet hota hai. Meethi boli, prem ki goli.
