Category: Vedasri Siddamsetty
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All through school and college, travelling through traverses of India rail travel proved one of the only ways to capture the miles across the country. The other way mostly was by road driving through the southern states mostly, with my brother and I plonked in the back seat. Rail travel always meant more people, crazy…
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About 5000 years ago, Lord Vishnu one of the Trimurti, the Preserver of the worlds came into the world in his 8th avatar since the beginning of the world as we know it as Krishna. Born in Mathura, raised in Gokul and Vrindavan, finally as the king of Dwaraka, he was an influential figure of…
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On a trail of popular and influential people of the past, I picked Irving Stone’s book, Lust for Life to read from the local library. The book documents the life of a man who painted the Sunflowers, Starry night, and others fetching a handsome sum of money long after his death. At one point he…
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Le Corbusier was a French architect who mustered up a storm in the built world with his fancy broad stroke forms and unstoppable zest for building. Challenging the norms and taking a huge liking to the pouring of concrete he not just thought out of the box, but threw out the box with his buildings…
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20 years ago I came to Delhi to study, a naive 17 year old with starry eyes in 2004, today setting foot in India’s capital city and my favourite I am still as naive and starry eyed, yet again filled with nostalgia. Delhi and I have really not changed, though now the former touched by…
Vedasri Siddamsetty 