http://deshnamehta.tumblr.com/day/2011/11/30

‘I am Juxtaposition’ at the Visual Communication Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London

http://ifnotnow.rca.ac.uk/visual-communication-work-in-progress-show-2011/

PRIVATE VIEW
30 NOVEMBER 2011
6–8.30pm

OPEN DAILY
1–9 DECEMBER 2011
10.00am–5.30pm

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”

Oscar Wilde

http://hundredpercentzine.tumblr.com/

An image making initiative, the purest of its kind, 100% is an Indian visual zine which reverberates the beliefs of its creators (Lokesh Karekar and Sameer Kulavoor) in being completely involved in the task taken at hand.

A privilege to contribute towards its first issue 100% sound

being released at India’s biggest music festival : NH7 Weekender

A sultry September afternoon in the stuffy insides of a familiar yellow-black mobile enclosure... I rolled down the glass and gave it (whole and unopened) to her...

She suddenly looked at me in the eye and asked, 'Taaza hain?'(Is it fresh?). Her disbelief was evident when I nodded indicating that it was. She must have thought I was lying. (I wonder that she wondered that I was giving it to her only because it was stale. Perhaps it was me who wondered more than her - she was always use to the leftovers and the stale fragments)

I could not return my gaze back to her. It struck a chord somewhere - deep within. My jaws dropped and I found myself staring at the broken button on her forlorn dress. I wanted to run away to some place far away. I felt so guilty for all the times that I had cribbed at the dining table. I could hear the mad confab of the traffic, blaring to its highest intensity. It wasn't even two seconds before the traffic lights had gyrated to an office green that the pandemonium broke out on the queens necklace in the commercial capital of India. Nothing unusual, just the customary traffic.