Striking a pose. I write about the era of polaroids and cigarettes in @closetothebone.book and here’s an image that’s just a bit painful. An obsession with bony shoulders and collarbones morphed into a serious eating disorder that took years to heal. Shattering perceptions and unmasking pretty pictures to reveal what lies beneath informs the narrative of my writing debut.
Sharing the frame with @im__sal and @lascelles1708
#ClosetotheBone @harpercollinsin
The cutest thing you will see today. #Souffle
Who wore it best?
Duh. Both obviously. There will hopefully never be a fight to the death sense of competition between my girls. Strategies such as getting them to focus on how fortunate they are, filling their hearts and minds with gratitude, encouraging individual interests and reinforcing how much they are loved as well as their uniqueness will hopefully make it not as easy to feel resentful towards their sissy when she snatches the favourite fork away.
By the way this is all uncharted territory for me as I grew up a blissfully introverted single child, running through my suburban Toronto neighbourhood, unchaperoned for hours a day.
Any tips #MothersofMultiples?
Wearing @world_of_born
Repost from @etpanache using @RepostRegramApp – One of India’s first supermodels, an accidental actor, cancer survivor, mother of twins through surrogacy, a global citizen. These are various labels that could be attached to the personality of Lisa Ray. Yet, as her recently-released memoir, ‘Close to the Bone’ reveals, the 47-year-old who stumbled into the Indian entertainment industry at sixteen (and almost starred in a Bond film!) doesn’t approve of labels at all. She talks Bollywood, bulimia, and how she loved and lived on her own terms. Link to interview in bio.
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#LisaRay #CloseToTheBone #HarperCollinsIndia #Books #Memoir #Bollywood
Image @farrokhchothia
All smiles with @mickeycontractor on a #Lakme shoot. Read @closetothebone.book for insights into the evolution of make up artistry in Mumbai and how Mickey led the charge.
#ClosetotheBone #thewaywewere
Inscribing personal messages in @closetothebone.book before leaving @hyattregencyludhiana
A Sunday morning well spent before leaving for #Chandigarh
and home to nurse my flu and take a few days to nurture myself back to wholeness.
Wearing @tokreeshopjaipur
I have been fortunate to have found formidable female mentors in my life at just the moment when I needed them. Neelam Mansingh has mentored not only me, but possibly thousands of others. A celebrated theatre director and teacher of the performance arts, she also happens to be one of my favourite people in the world. This trip to Chandigarh was elevated by a long awaited visit. I’ve written about Neelam in #ClosetotheBone. For those readers- here she is, a woman of delicacy and fierce artist fortitude who prepared me for my role in #Water bestowed me with a visual and emotional vocabulary and has influenced my artistic arc in so many ways I can’t even articulate.
Grainy outtake from a shoot for @hellomagindia with my pearl.
MUH @jomakeupartist
All set for an evening chatting about all things #ClosetotheBone with #YPOLudhiana #YPOPunjab
MUH @bhavyaarora
Top @galang.gabaan
Skirt @teatrodhora #Homegrown
Accessories @thelabellife Hyatt Regency Ludhiana
Repost from @closetothebone.book using @RepostRegramApp – Here’s another throwback of author @lisaraniray posing with Tamil star #SarathKumar while secretly cursing the choreographer beneath her breath. Read @closetothebone.book to know more.
Repost from @aditiguptaofficial using @RepostRegramApp – Lisa Ray @lisaraniray looks stunning in our ivory Anarkali with hand embroidered details!! .
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#aditigupta #lisaray #celebfeature #embroidery #handmade #fashion #embroideryart #art #handembroidery #chanderi #kota #design #style #love #designerwear #luxuryclothing #luxurydesigners #embroiderydesign #india #traditional #handwork #needlework #sewing #designer #ethnic #indiandesigner #embroiderylove
Repost from @pritishnandycommunications using @RepostRegramApp – #fourmoreshotsplease #season2 #behindthescenes #blackandwhite #onsetlife #actorslife #coming2020
@lisaraniray @4moreshotspls @nupurasthana @rangitapritishnandy @pritishnandy2018 @primevideoin
Repost from @odiabetic.in using @RepostRegramApp – The mother, the actor and the philanthropist. Read the untouched chords of Lisa Ray’s heart and life with Diabetic Living India.
Hit http://bit.ly/LisaRaniRay and know.
#lisaray #closetothebone #celebritytalk #cancerfighter #mother #philanthropist #actorlife #actress #writer #coverstory #coverstar #cover #magazine #magazinecover #diabeticlivingindia #odiabetic
Thank you #YPOPunjab for a kick ass evening of genuine connection and fun. I was exhausted from a night shoot, no sleep and a long journey but the event room, the fab individuals and the care and attention shot me full of energy (Zingier than a margarita)
Special mention to @artvocab who moderated the session. Gunjan, you are a delight and a delicate soul. Happy to hear your hubby gives you wings, as mine does.
#YPO #Ludhiana #ClosetotheBone #YPOPunjab Hyatt Regency Ludhiana
In the spirit of unpacking photos and memories, here’s a classic 90’s behind the scenes while shooting for #Lakme with makeup artist and general sweetheart @subbu28 I’m someone who looks forward but not without drawing joy and acknowledging the triumphs, failures and lessons from the past.
This post simply makes my heart smile. The majority of my travel has been blissfully solo. But it also makes me feel this harrowing writing journey has been worth it 🙏🏼Repost from Twitter @swatysmalik :
The only company I have here is
@Lisaraniray
and i couldn’t ask for better company for my solo travel days! #Ladakh
@harpercollinsin #ClosetotheBone
Current read.
#10minutes38secondsinthisstrangeworld by Turkish-British rockstar author @shafakelif begins with the startling premise that passing out of the body does not happen instantly, but in fact the human mind continues #10minutes38seconds after the moment of death. As she writes ‘It seemed to Leila that human beings exhibited a profound impatience with the milestones of their existence. For one thing they assumed you automatically became a wife or husband the moment you said ‘I do!’ ….Perhaps it was not that different when it came to death. People thought you changed into a corpse the instant you exhaled your last breath. But things were not clear-cut like that.’
My first read of this formidable woman’s work, who dedicated this novel ‘To the women of Istanbul and to the city of Istanbul, which is, and has always been, a she-city’
Thanks @shamimsarif for turning me on to this novel. Chandigarh, India
Major throwback thanks to @mariagorettiz 😘😜
@closetothebone.book reaches Latin America! Thanks to my friend @goodfood65 who is re-reading parts at 8600 feet in Bogotá Colombia on his travels.
Repost @ziyatong:
This is the root of disempowerment.
It’s not that people don’t care — it’s that they feel that they don’t have the bandwidth. This is why as
@alexhimelfarb points out, social equality & economic justice are key to fighting climate change and really injustice of all manner [art: costa a comics]
Too thought provoking and lyrical not to share 🙏🏼 I say, turn over leadership to the artists, the poets, the ones who are deeply aware of human fallibility, who wrestle with identity and question more than they assert. The ones who psychologically negotiate wounds to intuit the lessons delivered in those deep gashes of spirit, flesh and mind. These are the ones who should be steering us back to sanity. Imagine. Just, imagine.
Repost from @shiloshivsuleman using @RepostRegramApp – ⠀
This is a tale of two tongues. ⠀
Sometimes we spell left to right in urdu ⠀
Other times right to left in sanskrit⠀
but the words in between are often the same.⠀
Aseem ⠀
Incanted in one tongue:⠀
असीम ⠀
Unbounded, boundless, eternal, borderless⠀
(who makes the border?)⠀
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Spelt in another:⠀
عاصم ⠀
Protector, guardian⠀
(who is protecting what, for whom?)⠀
Over night, the streets of the Valley were emptied. Kashmiri voices were silenced. And the law of the land changed. Thousands of new troops were moved into what was already one of the world’s most militarised zones. What happens when land, life and language become occupied? When force, brutality, an occupation are masked as a ‘resolution’? ⠀ عاصم / असीम Kashmir⠀
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guarded/without borders⠀
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The Kashmiri people don’t recognise these borders; they have chosen red as the colour of their resistance: lal. ⠀
Lalla is the colour of Kashmir’s resistance and the name of a 14th century female poet from Kashmir who is loved by both Hindus and Muslims. She wore nothing on her body, roamed the mountain landscapes and like many in this subcontinent, drew deep from both wells.⠀
She was un-occupied.⠀
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Aseem.⠀
असीम / عاصم ⠀
Unbound, protected and eternal.⠀
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There is a saying in Kashmiri: only two words have any meaning- Lalla and Allah.⠀
Both remain- boundless.⠀
“Dance Lalla, with nothing but air,⠀
Sing lalla, wearing the sky.”⠀
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Fearless stands in solidarity with those who are in defence of an unoccupied, unbound Kashmir. Download this poster, make it your profile picture, print it, paste it in your streets, use it as a banner, carry it with you in streets. ⠀
LINK IN BIO⠀
http://bit.ly/fearlesskashmir⠀
Poster by @shiloshivsuleman
Repost from @sudiptodhaivat using @RepostRegramApp – It’s rare to come across a read that is hardhitting and engaging from page 1. @lisaraniray ‘s Close to the Bone is one such rarity, definitely not just another memoir of a ragingly popular diva telling bits about the world of glamour. The narrative holds your hand and takes you through the author’s life so far to the epicenter of her soul. The questions, the processes the workings of her thinking mind and the curious soul is a mirror that most of us choose to bury under the laundry of monotony veiled over by the fear of (and resistance to) change. #closetothebone is #closetotheheart. .
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Repost from @kiranmaverick using @RepostRegramApp – Greetings from Madrid @lisaraniray 🙂 Your journey is incredible! Thanks for bringing this book out!
#LisaRay #Closetothebone #book #mustread #strength #inspiration #books #paperback #publisher #author #inspiringbooks #mustreadbooks #autobiography #actress #life #bollywood #culture #multiculture #health #fight #cultureshock #freespirit #travel #Experience #motivation #cinema #acting #actorslife
Beautiful piece in @t2telegraph on the poetry of Bei Dao and the Paradox of Hong Kong. #HK was home for more than 4 years and we are watching the civil disobedience and dissent with a mixture of awe, respect and dread for potential repercussions from the Mainland and what comes next.
‘Dao, in an electrifyingly powerful essay, titled “Dwelling Poetically in Hong Kong”, translated by Lucas Klein, says: “… in Hong Kong, money is God, and blood pressure rises and lowers with the stock market, the moon waxes and wanes to prices of real estate; in Hong Kong, so as to reap the highest yield on their souls, the world’s richest capitalists meticulously manipulate sticker prices in supermarkets so they’ll be different on weekends from weekdays; in Hong Kong, a canyon separates rich from poor, and the city has a higher Gini coefficient than any other developed region in the world, yet no one fears upheaval from the impoverished; in Hong Kong, beneath the slick surface of equality is an entrenched class system, with the bottom of the pyramid made up of migrants, the unemployed, and foreign domestic workers.” A different kind of upheaval, political and cultural rather than economic, has gripped Hong Kong these last few weeks.
When five Hongkongers associated with bookstores selling books by Chinese dissidents were arrested by Chinese authorities in 2015, there was great concern. And the recent proposal — as yet unimplemented and said to have been shelved temporarily — of Hong Kong’s chief executive since 2017, Carrie Lam, for legislation which will allow Hong Kong to extradite people to China as well as other countries has led to unprecedented protests including an ‘invasion’ of the legislature. Lam is in a more unenviable position than any head of government barring Boris Johnson. She cannot defend infringements on liberties without risking instant unpopularity at home and she cannot oppose them without risking ire in Beijing.
What Bei Dao thinks of all this, one does not know but he is bound to be troubled by it.’
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