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The irony 
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
Priya writes on my Chennai vs. Bangalore post:
Hello u chennai people, just dont bluff anything about bangalore. Bangalore can never be compared with chennai . Chennai is such a worst place . only roads are good and nothing else. can u find a good climate in chennai . can u find good restura
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Breaking News
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
In the wake of the recent terror attacks in Bombay, comes this latest development. A spokesperson for the hitherto unheard of All India Irony Deficient Progressive Party (AID-PP) has asked for the Tata Group Chairman Mr. Ratan Tata to take responsibility for the terror attacks inside his hotel and resign from his post. Meanwhile, Maneka Gandhi has called for a nationwide bandh to protest the at
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Writing advice
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
Words and sentences are like strings. You can either stretch them tight, taut. Like guitar strings. So you, the writer, can pick them and make music. Then again, sentences can be nice and long and untied, so you can wrap them around things – say, a top – and make them do things to others. How you treat your string is up to you. Play the guitar, spin the top, have fun.
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The Wily Malayali.
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
These Mallus, I say! Always claiming they did this, did that. Why, they’ve recently begun claiming that Aryabhatta was a Malayali. And that Ayurveda found its best expression in Mallu land! What next? Malayalam was evolved in Kerala?
Madhu Menon, the mallu, is like that too. He claims he serves some of the best far-Eastern cuisine in Bangalore. And
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Too many drafts, too few posts.
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Tue, 28 Oct. 2008
This morning, I was wondering why I haven’t been blogging with the same intensity and frequency as when I began. And the answer to that is so deeply profound, it will shake the very foundations on which the edifice of blogging is built.
You see, blogging is supposed to be spontaneous, impulsive, spur-of-the-moment and other synonyms of the word. It is also about democracy of opinion,
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The first Chennai Photo Workshop - October 8, 2008
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Sun, 28 Sep. 2008
Here’s an experiment.
Get three people who’ve never met in the physical world to jointly lead a workshop. To make things complicated, let the workshop be about photography. Heh! Still too easy. Let the workshop have three very distinct, rather unconnected sessions lead by these very different photographers. Each talking not with prepared notes and rehearsed-over-the-years efficienc
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August 22, 2008. One super-fantastic-excellent party.
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Fri, 01 Aug. 2008
This month, my city turns 369 years old. I have a few events planned which I think are pretty interesting and prettier fun. And it’s not just I. A whole bunch of people are doing their thing this month to celebrate a city. VIncent D’ Souza and Revathi, over at Mylapore times and Madras Day blog have a super roster planned.
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The ninth Chennai Photowalk
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Sun, 06 Jul. 2008
We are back to our traditional second Sunday of the month schedule. The ninth Chennai Photowalk will be held on 13th July, at 7 AM.
The route – from the foot of St. Thomas mount to the top. Where rests the Church of our Lady of Expectations, a Nestorian chapel built around the year 1523. More history, legends and myths at the walk.
See you all there?
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The eight Chennai Photowalk
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Wed, 04 Jun. 2008
Okay! For the first time since the Photowalks began, I have had to change the sacred order of things. I am sorry, but I had no choice. I am referring, of course, to the great and holy tradition of holding the Chennai photowalks on the second Sunday of every month. But, like I said, I had no choice. I shall offer penance and bribes to the lords of the walks later but first, the details all you g
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The seventh Chennai Photowalk - photos and follow-up
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Sun, 18 May. 2008
—from Kunal Daswani – (?)
Yes, the rumours are true. We did walk, on the 11th of May. And yes, I di
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The new Samsung TV commercial.
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Wed, 07 May. 2008
“The beauty of an original, is in the originality of its beauty. Full HD performance on the Samsung HD TV will leave you wondering, is it art or is it television”
Samsung/Cheil communication – smashing job of copywriting, I must say.
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The seventh Chennai Photowalk
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Sat, 03 May. 2008
Hello folks. And non-folks too.
I don’t, and am unable to, believe that Chennai Photowalk has actually had 6 outings, and each bigger than the one before it. Chennai Photowalk has also spawned a Bangalore chapter, and talks are on to launch a London one soon. Meanwhile, there’s some press interest, some TV and Radio interest in the whole movement (pun intended). So, yay!
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Three poems
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Mon, 21 Apr. 2008
The new gods.
iambic pentameter and rhyme
17 syllables at a time.
pace and metaphor
emotions and other.
asking me for trust, faith and feeling
prose offers reason.
down, I say, with the new gods.
Of poetry.
(Written for the Blasphemy reading. )
The other two are
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