December 2010
10 posts
First magazine cover! Pink Pages!
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A Composite of Straight Lines - Now on iTunes
Most of A Composite of Straight Lines was written when I first moved to Toronto in 2003. Those weren’t happy times, but as always, I found great solace in lyrics and melody. Inspired by repeated and desperate listening sessions of Cat Power and Neko Case, I wanted the record to have a soulful sound, and so it was fitting that producer Greg Johnston and I discovered in the early recording...
California 2010 - Photos
Trikone Magazine review
In writing “God Loves Hair”, Vivek Shraya has a book that can sit proudly next to any coming-of-age story. In what seems a short memoir of his school age years, he has in fact rendered the intersecting identities of being a child of colour growing up in a predominantly white environment.
There are the challenges of being from the Indian subcontinent but not from India; growing up in the West,...
MOVIES 2010
2010 was another zzzzz year for movies, but here are the ones that stayed with me long after I left the theatre:
1. Inception was so significantly better than anything else that came out this year (Black Swan being the only exception) that it feels almost cruel to put it on the list. This is a movie I will probably never see again just so I can preserve my memory of its grandness. Also: THE...
INDIA 2010 - In words
I got back last Wednesday and since then have been lost in existential space, waking up every morning at 4AM, thankful for the company of my new favourite tv obsession Community. This trip to India was perfect. Everything I needed it to be, wanted to be. In conversations with friends, I have been still struggling to find the words. I was gone for only two weeks but it feels like a lifetime. Here...
INDIA 2010 - IN BLACK & WHITE
INDIA 2010 - IN COLOUR
Article in The Hindu (India) →