I’m leaving in a matter of hours. Soon I will have fascinating things to write about–although I can’t say when I’ll have internet access again. Funny, but it is Hindi that comes to mind: kabhii na kabhii, kahiin na kahiin. Some time or other, somewhere or other. We’ll talk again.
(One […]
On Friday I returned Don, a Hindi film starring the ubiquitous* Shahrukh Khan, to a little Indian grocery store in Lexington that also rents movies. I didn’t have a chance to make any conversation in Hindi the first time, because the woman at the register was on the phone. This time, when I […]
A really cool photo of a step well in India. Reminds me of some scenes from the charming, beautiful Hindi film Paheli. This excerpt from the film has some cool footage of another well like this. Funny enough, the subtitles are French.
After you’ve endured such a long wait, here it is, finally:
Our Hindi film masterpiece! Chasing Priyanka / Jii Haan, Main Tumse Shaadii Karuungaa (Yes, I Will Marry You) on Vimeo.
Don’t worry, it’s subtitled. Enjoy!
(I think this film is so amazing that I don’t even care that there is a lot of footage of […]
Today Joe and I and some of my classmates drove down to Chicago to meet our Hindi professor and his wife on Devon Avenue. We went to a restaurant called Tiffin for lunch, where there was a giant buffet full of good food, from both North and South India. I ate too much […]
So, today, after my daily failed call to my special lady friend at the DC Consulate, I called the main office. I talked to a man with the most charming and stereotypical of French accents, only to fail in my mission yet again. “I’m looking for (you know who),” I began.
“Ah yes,” he […]
This is really just for symmetry’s sake: Joe and I saw the fifth Harry Potter movie today. It is unremarkable, in the same way that all the Harry Potter films are unremarkable, because they are pale imitations of the books.
Anyway, the good stuff: Our film was a big hit at Friday’s extravaganza, […]
…now that I have read every last word of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I read the last three-hundred pages or so with Joe, which is also the way we read the entirety of the sixth book. I like to think of it as a good omen that our reading paces are […]
My Hindi class is currently working on a short film. Each of the south Asian language classes is producing a skit for a sort of talent show next Friday. Ours will be a Bollywood spoof. I hope that when it is finished, it will find a home on YouTube for all the […]
So I haven’t called the embassy yet. I was waiting for my arreté to arrive in the mail so I could hold it in my hands while I talked to the embassy. This doesn’t seem entirely rational now that I’ve written it, but it all made sense before that.
The arreté arrived after the […]