manan dedhia
Rough around the edges. Noisy end points forwards.
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Make Great Art.
Its a good game to play in your free time, if you have no ambitions of conquering the world and having a successful startup launching roman salutes. What, in your mind, is the greatest album ever made? Or better yet, what is that one album you’d wished you had made?The latter presents a much more interesting proposition - its a question asked of you but phrased as something tangential. With the fo...
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Please don’t eat musical shit
I really hate shit music. Hate listening to it, hate recommending it to other people. And I do mean hate in the strongest possible way. When there is so much good music coming from India, there is no reason to eat shit. Each one of these tracks can be the entrance to their own rabbit holes. Explore at will. Happy Listening. Please don’t eat shit.Indian Ocean - RodayAhmer - ElaanThe Down Troddence ...
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Break bread
When I feel stupid, which is very often, I read. Its a perfect cure for an ever present malaise. But anxiety and loneliness is a bit more of a struggle. Its only in fleeting moments and glimpses, but it often feels crushing. The cure, is ancient. Bread, lavash, pita, tortilla, dosa, bao - it comes in many names, grains and forms. Making it usually involves effort. And time. It will not be hurried....
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Identity
In the rabbit hole of food related videos, some of the most fascinating ones I watched are about butchering a whole animal.Its a process that is almost hypnotic- the butchers knife making precise cuts, finding muscle seams and reducing waste to a bare minimum. Each muscle plays a definite part - a small cog that makes a whole. Each muscle defines part of the animals mechanics - how it walks, how i...
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Benighted
This song by Opeth - was daily listening for almost 2 years. Every day that I was in a job that I did not want to be in. For a paycheck, it sucked the soul out of me. The lyrics rung true every single day. It was my first proper job too - and my family needed the money. Those were the only reasons I stayed. I was never good at it. Never productive. It wasn’t something I studied for, yearned for or...
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Free Speech?
Another celebrity is the latest victim of India’s true culture.One that binds us and unites us. One that we swear by and kill for. Personal taste. Pet Peeves. Judgement.Its a basic human trait, to be fair. No part of the world, however unexplored, is untouched by it. But I am yet to find a people who use it for as many different purposes as Indians. From concluding what one wants to eat, to getti...
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Khuda Hafiz, Ustad ji.
Zakir Hussain ji left us on the 15th Dec 2024. To a kid from small town India, growing up in a non musical family, he was Wah Ustad from the Taj Mahal ad. But there was something in his eyes. A twinkle, you could call it. Like a mischievous kid, who was up to no good.Yes we wanted to grow our hair out and pretend to play tabla, even if we had no clue or willingness.Over the years, Ustad ji made mu...
