you're doing it wrong

There was a quaint gentleman who would visit the bookfair every year. Unlike most of us, he didn't go there to buy/sell books, or to even hang out and eat junk food. He went there to propagate a scientific theory: the sun goes around the earth once every year. He would have complicated diagrams to prove his theory, and little pamphlets that explained things in detail. He would even draw graffiti in some places to prove his point. I would watch him curiously every year, but I never quite gathered the courage to go and speak to him.

This was, of course, a while ago. I've had a busy few years, shuttling between two cities and in the meantime I'd forgotten all about him. I came home last Wednesday for ten days; today, I was pleasantly surprised when I spotted this bit of graffiti: 'The sun goes round the earth once a year. Challenge for scientists!'

It's good to know that some things are still the same.

Fireflies

Fireflies

My fancies are fireflies, —
Specks of living light
twinkling in the dark.

- Rabindranath Tagore


This is from Tagore's Lekhan (meaning 'Writing'), comprising of 256 short poems and epigrams. Some of these poems are also a part of another collection, Sphulinga ('Spark').

commercials

This is stolen from roga, who posted videos of pretty commercials here. Although mine are less 'pretty' and more 'quirky', I think.

I would've done this earlier, but YouTube is addictive, and I've spent the last couple of hours looking at the oddest videos, from old Doordarshan shows and commercials to various bizarre commercials to snatches of the magnificent India vs. Pakistan match in the '96 cricket world cup to Jonty Rhodes taking amazing catches...

( embedded videos under cut )