Le dernier ans et marienebad

Just watched "le. Dernier ans et marienebad "last year at marienebad. It remains masterpiece since no one makes movie like this today.

Mysteriously set iin medieval hotel in Europe . Its movie made of extraordinary narratives and elegent costumes. Man and his object of appears and disappears many times. It goes back to time and comeback to present which is so mysteriously interweaven. I am kind of puzzled but I must recognize the way director,photographer and costume designer set up this 95 minutes masteerwork from 1961
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Respect and Independence for Tibet

Rise of China presents a very. Complex and typical problem for modern world . In our times Chinese dominance means many things. I would like start with development aid .China supports huge development projects in Africa, its quest for resources have infused a very positive enthusiasm among Chinese authorities. This enthusiasm supports corrupt and dictators regimes in Africa. Its infrastructure led growth in many african countries have become good wage earning system for their chinese people. My friend Martial told me the other day a very interesting example. Chinese gave Cameroon a big chunk of money to build stadium . Almost all the labourers were chinese and finally when project was complete , poor cameroonians were left with a huge stadium which was built from chinese money and chinese people . This narrative is very simple and to a extent funny too but that's reality of today's china . One the one hand west is demanding more transparency and governance from African Regimes whereas China is simply fueling the development without considering any of those demands......

Well I wanted to write one of the issues which is very dear to my heart for last one decade. Olympic has brought unique opportunity to people who believe in freedom and respect for one of the ancient culture in the world. This unique opportunity has been quite violent so far. I don't have exact figure of death though I. Am sure dozens of people are getting killed in recent suppression by Chinese authorities . Lhasa was burning ....I am sad that reaction of India is so soft and meek on this issue.. Agressive and suppressive china can dangerous to the south asia. Our present Indian Governent has shown such lamb duck position , I wish if our first pm Pt. Nehru would have alive today
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Spring, which is not far

Every morning, I see My naked tree embraces purple leaf buds.what a extraordinary joy to see this tree changing color everyday ......soon all its branches will be filled with leaves.... Many other trees will be sharing their flower to the world in coming days ...life after weary winter won't be the same. ..... Oh it was such a long winter though not that dreadful like last year .....
Spotless blue sky .... Small birds which remind me of birds in my court yard and how they make the water of our well so dirty with their shit .... Still my( didi) mom keep washing the rice and other vegetable ... I remember the bucket which carry from the well and water is filled with fresh aroma of earth though sour in taste ....

Again coming back to the present .... Its amazingly peacefull here . People are busy in their houses ,,, who has see the extraordinary unfolding this beauty which is so uncondinitional and tempting ....
Stupid! there is one white polythene which hangs on the branch of the tree it looks awkward amidst the purple leaf buds of the tree ... Its filled with air and try to. Run away from that but somewhat it stuck there and looks like a white ugly baloon .............

We had easter dinner at le pere penard in east village . Everytime Laura would take us to some French or Eurpean place last night was no different .... Lamb was cooked nicely ... We had some amazing wine though expensive affair .... Fuckin it cost me 78 dollars ......

Yesterday afternoon was so random ... Such a old body but made nice sound of love .... She was daniella
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He

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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:57:58 +0000
Subject: He
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He has lost thirty. Pound in last three weeks. He has ID for food
stamp but manager refuse to recognize him because his pic on his ID
does not match with real him.

He came to me asking for band aid in the store. Tall and handsome man
.I know him for four months . I know quite closely since I am aware of
his shitty smell.and growing beard. Once he asked for money for bed
since he didn't have enough money to get a bed for that cold night.
Which I still remember very well. I was walking in front of sheraton
and he caught me.

Tonight I asked him about his whereabout and specifically his way of
walking .... His long and slender body was flying in the air . I asked
him why you are walking like that.?
He told me that his dancing .... There is secret which exist between
him and me ...which. I promised not to tell anyone ......its a secret
which is killing him. He has spent 900 dollars since sunday but only
less than ten percent on food , all the rest were spend on drugs
particularly cocaine
I should write more on this .....
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fwd: Saturday

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Subject: Saturday
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He is fifty. He invited me for concert. Conductor was great. He was
good performer. This concert was exploration of 20th and 19th century
choral songs. James bagwell was music director and it was organized by
the desert choirs.

This building is located on 64 th w central park nice wooden interiors
in a church style. After the concert we four of us went have dinner.
Petit restrauent located near lincoln center probably one blocks away
on 67 th street. Quite small and old. Food is reasonable. One can't
expect to have great burger in that neiggbourhood with that money. So
basically its mediocre food.
Now let's say something about people
Mr porter was retire sociology professor. The guy cud not speak but we
had a good conversation on paper about camera and its different
variations. old man! I should have known more more about that person.
A innocent sweetness enveloped his personality.
Richard was in tuxedo his well worned shoes. Cheap white shirt but
really nice tuxedo his beard has grown a bit. His face look like rabbi
if you see from distance. His face has childlike innocence. Beard has
given him saint figure. When I saw him closely at dinne table . He was
not that innocent guy.

Other guy was bit bitter at the end of the conversation when we were
walking towards the subway. He showed lots of concern about
unemployment and comparing cu and cunyc. my .prehysbrian was the
word in new york

--
Manish Kumar
Dual MPA
Sciences Po, Paris & SIPA ,New York
Email: mk2740@columbia.edu
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

--
Manish Kumar
Dual MPA
Sciences Po, Paris & SIPA ,New York
Email: mk2740@columbia.edu
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fwd: And police took them

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They are sick and homeless. We think social worker will take care of
them but I am not sure who will take care of them.
Police come and ask them where they wanna go and they are speechless ,
they just want to stay in warm cafe or at sub way platform but police
cannot let them stay with peace.

Right now I am sitting on wooden bench at path station. There are two
couple sitting besides me and talking about some super cool
application of facebook . Girl is busy in facebooking through her I
phone whereas in our next bench two homeless people were taken by path
police...

Just finished my work at picker center I am not getting anything in
return. Its a great frienship trap where me and martial keep landing
up at picker center . Today I finished world bank trade program . It
took lots of time. I wasted hell lots of paper due to my silly
mistake with printers.
Four people are busy are with their little machines. Its amazing that
phones have increased our capacity to communicate but in real terms it
has reduced the scope of communication . For example these four people
are busy in their world of phones . Some one is watching my space ....
Someone is reading mails ...some is listening music......but rarely
people are talking to each other.
Its two o clock. In the night ...people are showing the pics to each
other ... Evrywhere you go and people are busy in taking pictures.
What kind of situation upbringing inspire people to capture every
moments in camera.... In last more than three years I have been taking
pics all over from brazil to germany to switzerland .....capturing
the fleeting and transistory moments of life .........
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Dual MPA
Sciences Po, Paris & SIPA ,New York
Email: mk2740@columbia.edu
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of those morning

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This morning has been quite irritating .I must decide what I want from
my life ..... These thoughts are now tiny clouds in my consciousness
......let's move on....

Today is new morning. Bright and beautifull one ...I came home at
5.20 am . Night was not that consumptive since we outside professional
for deep cleaning at our store . They don't have perfect equipment to
clean store like starbucks. Our store is quite big . Its located on
broadway 51 st street. Quite busy though we don't make top sale in the
city. We are one of the high revenue store.

Frankie, racqueta and rubi were working last night starbucks shifts
have become stress busters for me . I feel good about going there. Its
lively . People are easy and they accept me in more fulfilling way as
time passes. Time has such a great secret . I am getting along with
few people is good way. I hang out with them , watch movie and drink
pina colada in five in the morning. I don't have much to share with
them because the way they think its totally different than the way I
grew up in india. For example they make some jokes about immigrants
about which I am totally unaware of . Last night they were talking
about reverse mexican style .....I don't know what that is ....it damn
interesting to know their langauge ,slang and sex lives ..... Few
girls are lesbians. They are so bold about their adventures and
experience . I like their vital force of life . In sanskrit I would
call this thing elixir of life 'jeevan rasa'

AGain coming back to this morning ...I met tom . He has slim and fit
body and very friendly in nature . Our reason of secret brotherhood
was bicycle. I was parking my bike and he just appeared from the path
station. We said hello . He has mistaken me for someone else but
anyways we became very friendly in ten minutes of conversation.
I asked him about the ways to take bike to the manhatten . He told me
me that only way was take bike þhrough george washinton bridge. We
discussed the unfriendly nature of public transport to carry bikes.
Ten years ago , one has take permit to carry bicycle in path trains
now atleast people can carry their bikes in some specific timings . We
agree that things are getting better but its a long way to go........

I just finished a book by irwing stone the lust for life . What a
amazing life von gogh had ..... Poor and desitute but always showered
with theo's love and life long affection .....when vincent died theo
could not take it and he also died in six months .... As in bible
someone said "they cannot be divided in death .

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"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

White silk which is covering me all over

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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:36:21 +0000
Subject: White silk which is covering me all over
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Its lazy morning with many broken promises.
When I slept around twelve thirty ,the first broken promise was to
get up early and go to precinct 24 where I need to get my finger print
for canadian visa purposes. There were many mundane promises which
break with myself every morning ..every moments and every day ....once
my boss at greenpeace said that we compromise with ourselves in the
morning , we keep compromising through out life. I think he was right
because I see in my own life that compromised made in the morning
reflect in the day too . Our life is essentially made of passing
moments. A moments compromised is life compromised .
I woke up at a 8.16 pm , open my window of ground floor apartment . A
white silk has covered earth , cars and my petit bicycle . A big bumps
of snow was formed on my bicycle seat. When I bought this vintage
quinn bike from a chinese guy in down town Manhattan , it was covered
with purple colored plastic . I didn't tacit and it turned out quite
safe from rain and snow till now.

Snow brings something to the city. I was in 1 police plaza today. Its
a building behind the city hall.where Mayor Bloomberg sits. Tourists
never get tired . Lots of people are taking pics of snow covered mta
buses and park. Labourers are busy building freedom towers. I spend
few minutes in overlooking the construction which stll look like big
hole in near path train station.snow has covered the big monster
trucks and other machineries busy in construction activities.

New police head quarter reminded me of railway headquarter in mumbai
when I used to go to get permission for Greenpeace awareness campaign.
There were certainly less people but the smell of furniture and rest
rooms were similar though I must say nypad has relatively well
maintained rest rooms .

I am in 6 train right now . This one has new cmpartment and bright
interiors . Its nice and new people are busy listening music through
their ipods.one girl is sipping starbucks coffee. I must
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Manish Kumar
Dual MPA
Sciences Po, Paris & SIPA ,New York
Email: mk2740@columbia.edu
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He

He has lost thirty. Pound in last three weeks. He has ID for food stamp but manager refuse to recognize him because his pic on his ID does not match with real him.

He came to me asking for band aid in the store. Tall and handsome man .I know him for four months . I know quite closely since I am aware of his shitty smell.and growing beard. Once he asked for money for bed since he didn't have enough money to get a bed for that cold night. Which I still remember very well. I was walking in front of sheraton and he caught me.

Tonight I asked him about his whereabout and specifically his way of walking .... His long and slender body was flying in the air . I asked him why you are walking like that.?
He told me that his dancing .... There is secret which exist between him and me ...which. I promised not to tell anyone ......its a secret which is killing him. He has spent 900 dollars since sunday but only less than ten percent on food , all the rest were spend on drugs particularly cocaine
I should write more on this .....
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Saturday

He is fifty. He invited me for concert. Conductor was great. He was
good performer. This concert was exploration of 20th and 19th century
choral songs. James bagwell was music director and it was organized by
the desert choirs.

This building is located on 64 th w central park nice wooden interiors
in a church style. After the concert we four of us went have dinner.
Petit restrauent located near lincoln center probably one blocks away
on 67 th street. Quite small and old. Food is reasonable. One can't
expect to have great burger in that neiggbourhood with that money. So
basically its mediocre food.
Now let's say something about people
Mr porter was retire sociology professor. The guy cud not speak but we
had a good conversation on paper about camera and its different
variations. old man! I should have known more more about that person.
A innocent sweetness enveloped his personality.
Richard was in tuxedo his well worned shoes. Cheap white shirt but
really nice tuxedo his beard has grown a bit. His face look like rabbi
if you see from distance. His face has childlike innocence. Beard has
given him saint figure. When I saw him closely at dinne table . He was
not that innocent guy.

Other guy was bit bitter at the end of the conversation when we were
walking towards the subway. He showed lots of concern about
unemployment and comparing cu and cunyc. my .prehysbrian was the
word in new york

--
Manish Kumar
Dual MPA
Sciences Po, Paris & SIPA ,New York
Email: mk2740@columbia.edu
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And police took them

They are sick and homeless. We think social worker will take care of them but I am not sure who will take care of them.
Police come and ask them where they wanna go and they are speechless , they just want to stay in warm cafe or at sub way platform but police cannot let them stay with peace.

Right now I am sitting on wooden bench at path station. There are two couple sitting besides me and talking about some super cool application of facebook . Girl is busy in facebooking through her I phone whereas in our next bench two homeless people were taken by path police...

Just finished my work at picker center I am not getting anything in return. Its a great frienship trap where me and martial keep landing up at picker center . Today I finished world bank trade program . It took lots of time. I wasted hell lots of paper due to my silly mistake with printers.
Four people are busy are with their little machines. Its amazing that phones have increased our capacity to communicate but in real terms it has reduced the scope of communication . For example these four people are busy in their world of phones . Some one is watching my space .... Someone is reading mails ...some is listening music......but rarely people are talking to each other.
Its two o clock. In the night ...people are showing the pics to each other ... Evrywhere you go and people are busy in taking pictures. What kind of situation upbringing inspire people to capture every moments in camera.... In last more than three years I have been taking pics all over from brazil to germany to switzerland .....capturing the fleeting and transistory moments of life .........
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