Ganapathy St, West Mambalam, Chennai and Scripps Ranch, San Diego — I have family living in both neighborhoods. .., they ought to have something in common. For starters they both have their fair share of faux pediments supported by Corinthian capitals. Both San Diego and Chennai are short on fresh water [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘India & US’
May 15, 2009
When Surat = Los Angeles… 9xSan Jose=Bangalore
Link to a depressing article in today’s Wall Street Journal. But why would the authors pick an extreme case like Lucknow as their case study, I couldnt quite understand… Perhaps Patna didn’t make the cut. Its like choosing Detroit as a case study to talk about neighborhood foreclosures. A bit of smelly trivia from Lucknow [...]
November 9, 2008
When God lies in Stucco…
“Thoonilum Irrupaar, Thurumbilum Irrupaar” – “He is in a formidable pillar, and he is in a speck of rust”…proclaims Hiranyakashipu’s son Prahlada in answer to his raging dad’s rhetorical question on Vishnu’s omnipresence. When the confounded Hiranyakashipu smashes the pillar with his mace, the lion-head, human-bodied, hyper-avatar of Narasimha (think the exact opposite of the [...]
June 13, 2008
Madras Blues in Miami
, originally uploaded by purpleganesh.
Until my trip to Miami in late 2007, my relationship to Art Deco was distantly academic. It was just one more style..something I was more amused with when my ex-boss toiled over the minutiae in elevation design recreating his inner art deco in twenty first century bay area streetscape. The theatres [...]
