Archive - culture hawker

On Dune and reading and watching

I grew up reading Dune. I read a lot of them, including the prequels Frank Herbert's son and Kevin J Anderson cooked up. I read a lot of sci fi in…

Apr 22 •

March 2024

Skin Rash Irritant Convalescent Vacuum

Itchiness had slowly crept up on me; across my torso, along the arms and folds reddened bumps grew. It was irritating, but not wholly worrying as no…

Mar 20 •

February 2024

They kicked Roy out

Assembly and Ambivalence

Feb 19 •

Peep Show, social crisis etc

Feb 14 •

January 2024

Black Noise/Brown Noise

Neil Kulkarni's Unhinged Erudition

Jan 26 •

May 2023

I taped my mouth: to breathe

I taped my mouth: to breathe. I have slept badly for a long time, at least that is what my partner tells me. I choke, hold my breath, gasp for air and…

May 8, 2023 •

March 2023

Longing, emanation, breath

Some notes on Indian media and aesthetics

Mar 29, 2023 •

February 2023

I watched Vertigo on a Saturday evening, and awoke on Sunday unnerved, nauseous. I tried to snap out of it, feeling the shakes, wobbly – taking a…

Feb 5, 2023 •

November 2022

The diasporic trace

Notes reflecting on Giwi Margwelaschwili

Nov 10, 2022 •

October 2022

tommy tuchel / weltanschaung

Still getting my head around the loss of Thomas Tuchel and the arrival of the next trendy English manager to take the limelight, and presumably perish…

Oct 11, 2022 •

Neil Kulkarni's Eastern Spring

I recently read Neil Kulkarni’s Eastern Spring: A 2nd Gen Memoir (Repeater, 2012), a short-and-sweet book filled with essays oriented around identity…

Oct 4, 2022 •

August 2022

On memory, boredom, fissures

Aug 16, 2022 •

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