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'Bhais of Bengaluru' by Jyoti Shelar

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Zaidi</a>, <a href="https://penguin.co.in/author/jyoti-sh... Shelar </a>and <a href="http://www.zacoyeah.com/">Zac O’Yeah </a></span></i></b><br /><a href="http://www.zacoyeah.com/"><br /></a></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Bangalore Literary Festival - Feb 4, 2018</span></i></b></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--haFrW9iiD..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1163" data-original-width="1600" height="464" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--haFrW9iiD..." width="640" /></a></i></b></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN">RYAN:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN"> Hello everybody! I’m Ryan and we are going to talk about Jyoti’s book today <a href="https://www.amazon.in/Bhais-Bengaluru... Bhais of Bengaluru </a>which covers the history of Bangalore’s Underworld. So, I started reading this book yesterday. And I was thinking, OK, I’ll read for half an hour, then I have to do this for the baby and what-not and then I will return to reading it later but I end...</span></div><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-IN; mso-fareast-language:EN-IN;} p.MsoNoSpacing, li.MsoNoSpacing, div.MsoNoSpacing {mso-style-priority:1; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-IN; mso-fareast-language:EN-IN;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:11.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-IN; mso-fareast-language:EN-IN;} .MsoPapDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} </style></style></div>

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Published on February 20, 2018 12:40

An Interview with Manu Joseph - Miss Laila Armed And Dangerous

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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FYGg0j7vqP..." style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="320" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FYGg0j7vqP..." width="435" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN"> </span></b></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN">5th January, 2018 at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/The-Cube-Gal... Cube"</a> gallery in Moira, Goa.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN">INTRODUCTION by Sonny Singh: </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: small;">Good Evening! I’m pleased to have two people with whom I’ve had the most interesting conversations with in my last 10 years in India. This is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_Jo... Joseph</a>, the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.amazon.in/Miss-Laila-Arme... Laila Armed And Dangerous</a> </i>and Ryan Lobo, a photographer, film maker and author of <a href="http://www.washingtonindependentrevie... style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Mr. Iyer Goes to War’.</i></a></span> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN">RYAN:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN"> Whenever I’ve met Manu Joseph I had this strange feeling that there was a third person present who was also Manu, watchi...</span></span></div><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-520092929 1073786111 9 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;} h1 {mso-style-priority:9; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-link:"Heading 1 Char"; mso-style-next:Normal; margin-top:24.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan lines-together; page-break-after:avoid; mso-outline-level:1; font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳゴシック"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi; color:#365F91; mso-themecolor:accent1; mso-themeshade:191; mso-font-kerning:0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-IN; font-weight:bold;} p {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Times; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoNoSpacing, li.MsoNoSpacing, div.MsoNoSpacing {mso-style-priority:1; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;} span.Heading1Char {mso-style-name:"Heading 1 Char"; mso-style-priority:9; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:"Heading 1"; mso-ansi-font-size:14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳゴシック"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi; color:#365F91; mso-themecolor:accent1; mso-themeshade:191; font-weight:bold;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:11.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;} .MsoPapDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%;} @page WordSection1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} </style></style></div>

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Published on February 08, 2018 20:41

The Fish Farmer

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mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} </style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In the </span><a href="http://www.candafoundation.org/impact... style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">C&A Foundation series</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Life After Forced Labour</span></i><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">, I </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">meet women who have rebuilt their lives after working under a particular form of forced labour called <span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022https\:\/\/en\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki\/Sumangali_%28child_labour%29\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><u><span style="color: blue;">Sumangali</span></u></span>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "times"; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"></span> <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 0 131231 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; 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We were off different castes and decided to get married. Though threatened with banishment we got married anyways. I had a daughter and stopped working in the Sumangali scheme, a...</span></div><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 0 131231 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 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Lessons for Empire

<br /><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hiccup, the star of "How to Train your Dragon" makes friends with a dragon</span></div><br /><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘I made them believe that life was a movie. I taught them that killing was a game,” The year is 2007. I am in Monrovia and we are interviewing former Liberian w...</span></div><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 0 131231 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Baskerville; panose-1:2 2 5 2 7 4 1 2 3 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-2147483545 0 0 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} p {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Times; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page WordSection1 {size:595.0pt 842.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} </style></style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} </style></style></div>

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The Minky

Illustration copyrighted by Aleks Klepnev (c). Drawn for this rhyme and used here with his permission.
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Accounts of them have been noted in the writings of Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) on his journey to the North Pole in 1909 with several omissions in his accounts being attributed to said creature, especially part about him not having reached said Pole. Also noted in the writings of many explorers, anthropologists and all court historians.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Species excerpt from <b>"A Field Guide to Common Monsters" </b>Ryan Lobo (c)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><samp class="EmbedCode-container" data-reactid=".0.2.$EmbedCode.1.1.0"><code class="EmbedCode-code" data-reactid=".0.2.$EmbedCode.1.1.0.0"><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/ryanlobo"&gt... @ryanlobo</a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="http://ryanlobo.blogspot.com//platfor... </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>

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Published on August 25, 2016 00:44

The Crying Beastie

Ryan Lobo (c)

A slavering beast from the untamed east was hungry and rather desperateSurvival an endeavor, making do with whatever, a life with only one exit,He lived by his wits in the deepest of pits, leaving only to go ransacking,Deep in the starkness, home was darkness and then he saw a refugee packing.

With a quick zig-zag he jumped in a bag and floated across the sea,
With a bit of pluck he might have some luck, looking for some cheese.
The raft touched down in an alien town and he stood in an endless cue,They allowed him to stay and that made his day though some were sent to the zoo.

From huddled masses it was greener grasses, the change was sudden and drastic,He found a bin with junk food that elevated his mood and life was quite fantastic,Over the years there were occasional slurs, but the beast did not feel aggrieved,A family achieved, food high fat and cheesed, the beast was rather pleased.
Times flies, he grew in size and though things were going quite well,Over candy mid lick, the beast felt homesick and he didn’t know whom to tell,
To the airport he crept, into a suitcase he leapt, back home for a few weekends,He was tired of the order, which felt like disorder and besides, he missed his friends.

He reached the old pit and complained a bit as the roads were not up to the mark,He found himself sneering, and occasionally jeering as he walked deeper into the dark,
He saw the old eyes, chatting with flies and he felt a rising revulsion,They said the foreign return creature with raised eyebrow feature deserved immediate expulsion.

Heart filled with sadness but tinged with gladness, the beast re-bagged himself in the end,In a comfortable null space, spice and candy encased, the plane began to ascend,Over glowing metropolis’s and silent necropolis’s, filled with all kinds of specie,Mindless of a case hurtling through space, containing a crying beastie.

Species excerpt from "A Field Guide to Common Monsters" Ryan Lobo (c)

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Published on August 24, 2016 20:04

Solomon - The Russian dog of Adventure and War

"The taking of Ukraine"

Note: Read the captions and view in sequence.

Solomon: Ok weak humanoids, I will lead you into the heart of adventure itself. Drive slaves, drive.

Vera, my faithful friend, will follow my example.

Ah, the bridge or the raging cataract? Hmmm

Heheh this raging cataract is nothing for the Russian dog of war and adventure

C'mon paltry human, march to my war song and watch out for wolves, quick sand, hell beasts and fox news.

Vera, a brave and beautiful maiden after my own dark heart.

Pathetic! An inept human gets stuck in quick sand.

I am sorry paltry human. Now you will slowly sink and die in the permafrost and a million years from now you will be excavated as a fossil.

But fear not....I shall leap across the abyss and come to thee.

Human, I give you comfort for a few seconds, then I will abandon you to die in the permafrost and a million years from now you will be excavated as a fossil.

Come survivors, Ukraine is only a few thousand miles away.

Good lord, a fox? or a rabbit?

Hmmm definitely a cross..... a frabbit.

I love the smell of facepalm in the morning

I smell a great danger coming our way....

A craven wolf follows the human scent. I must..protect....MUST...PROTECT.

DIE WOLF DIE.... If it wasnt for this NATO leash wolf....

Solomon: Yes begone NATO... I mean wolf.

Hurry weak and exhausted slaves.... the gulag awaits.

What moves through the undergrowth....a vile unicorn?

Ah...its only a hell beast..... easy prey for Solomon the Russian dog of war and adventure.

Finally...some light nourishment.

Solomon: Charrggeee!!!
Horse: Amnesty dear, it's that mosquito again

OK OK no need to kick big fellow.. all I wanted was a hind leg...or two.

Horse: Get lost bandicoot
Solomon: Hrumph I prefer cow anyway

Now where are my humans? They need me... let me cross this raging torrent....

AH there they go , training their young along the abyss.

Finally wolf.... we meet again... prepare for mortal combat.

(The tune from good the bad and the ugly plays gently in the pine forest)

Ok maybe i dont want to tear you limb from limb....want to join forces? And Theres this NATO thingy I need you to handle ... Heh heh

I mean.... cmon....heheh..... Ill keep Crimea... maybe you take on China?

More importantly, I have captured this plastic abomination which I will now chew to death forever.

Die plastic die

I will now train these slaves to live....

Finally, my slaves serve their purpose!

Leningrad, I remember you well. More than 20 million of us died in the great war you know.

And many say we killed 60 million of our own in the Gulag death camps.

Its a long strange road this history, with so many twists and turns.

Yes Vera... keep walking... don't give up. Virtue exists. This old plastic is dead now. I think..

Come let us all chew on that.

We Ruskys like to secretly believe that our suffering will one day save the world.

Chew the plastic? Or slaughter the beasts? Chew the plastic? Or slaughter the beasts? Chew the plastic? Or slaughter the beasts? Chew the plastic? Or slaughter the beasts? AARGHHHHH

Into the valley of darkness I will stride and fear no evil..

Hey, I dont want to hurt you hell beast, but if you keep following me...

Ok FINE! I claim your territory beast!

Ah Ukraine?!

I love the smell of Ukraine in the morning....

Ah pomeranian... sorry to see you in chains...NATO?

American lapdog, I now claim Crimea .... in the name of history.

Ah history flows in blood and is not written in the books.

Goodbye mediocre world, I now go back to my communist era flat block and polish my forgotten medals.

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Published on August 16, 2016 01:25

Udanta

Photography work in progress.

How does one reconcile an ancient, living mythology with the current day political, religious and cultural flux of modern India?I have made photographs of Indians interacting with symbols from Indian mythologies and our national history within the sometimes decayed public space of museums. The photographs are captioned with extracts from Indian mythology or with lines from the photographic subjects themselves, both artifact and human.

Joseph Campbell the comparative mythologist famously wrote ‘Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths’. Myth equals a truth that cannot be explained by facts; a fact is utilitarian: It demands verification and replication. A myth can emphasize the beauty of human existence as well as the sacramental nature of life. I like to think that contemporary expression, artistic and otherwise, occur on the tip of the iceberg, that portion of consciousness available to the present and those present while most of the iceberg remains hidden in the depths, unseen but profoundly affecting what lies exposed. It is in hidden depths that a population’s mythology exists and influences.

Myth is important to a culture, possibly more so to a recently colonized culture attempting a coming into its own as we can see from the various politico religious controversies occurring today.

Mythology is the penultimate truth, penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words or images alone.

In 'Udanta', I attempt a contemporary revelation of our times, an exploration of a 'wounded' civilization grappling with its past and attempting to create a future, using photographs of symbols and museum visitors, conscious of the fact that whole iceberg floats on, relentless and regardless, thus captioned with extracts from mythology, as myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world, more potent than mere history.

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Published on April 11, 2016 07:24

High Noon in Lucknow

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Ambedkar Samajik Parivartan Sthal, Lucknow museum and a warehouse for removed statues.</span></span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rco8iLN28r0..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rco8iLN28r..." /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the cliché goes, power corrupts. But what is seldom realized is that power also reveals. When a person is in the act of attainment, subterfuge is necessary. But as he or she achieves power, the need for concealment diminishes and in time, monuments are built to honor the powerful, the wise and the heroic and so it goes on and the older monuments are replaced by what lives on and that has risen from the ashes of the past.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All empires perish but not for a lack of power but the very opposite. They lose discipline and and are one day replaced by those who have known less, want more and who have yet to consider a need to rise above their own desires and selves.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The rise and fall of empires have been going on since the first ape-man usurped his brother’s position. Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence.The great rise because of Savagery and a need to triumph. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their Decadence. A cascading, process though space time, the eternal Ourobouros eating its own tail, its darker aspects alive within the heart of man, whose existence we often reject and allow to manifest in so many ways.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We want to believe in universal peace and justice and our own individual ideas of the world. The truth is that our existences are circles of shadow and light, greed and transcendence, peace and war. It will always be no matter the utopias we imagine, history being more gigantic, relentless, terrifying and humbling than what we think we know of ourselves.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Occasionally, a sage.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And that too shall pass.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"How is the empire?"</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">An unusual phrase in that form,</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And the secretary said </span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"All is well, sir, with the empire,"</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And the king gave him a smile and relapsed once more into unconsciousness.</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- The last words of King George V</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">15 January 1936</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span> </span></span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-52eK0xU99VM..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-52eK0xU99V..." /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "baskerville"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t5odP-I3WdM..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t5odP-I3Wd..." /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mKZgCDlbWn0..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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</span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Each drop the same yet another, </span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All caressing fingers hanging off this temporary tourist boat.</span></span></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At the source and the end, in the fall and within the wave, </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Memories of all your other existences are no doubt elsewhere in the labyrinth,</span></span></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A cloud bursting it's...</span></span></span></div><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} p {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Times; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} </style></style></div>

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