Happy Durga Pooja.
I prefer to think the goddess takes on the aspect we need in the moment. Volatile and terrifying as this year has been, I’m finding my way through familiar chants and sounds as well as through reflection of what is precious.
And now pass the khicchri.
#DurgaPooja2020
Shubho Nabami from Nelson BC
Blending the sounds of a YouTube video of the Ballygunge Pujo Arti from a previous year with the stillness of mountain life is trippy, even a bit zany. Yet it expands on our ideas of how to touch the sacred. For one, the velvet tongued, inciting whispers of the goddess are more audible this year.
Wearing @gopivaiddesigns
#DurgaPujo2020 #buildnewtraditions
How special to walk into the soothing space of @otterbooksinc in #Nelson, introduce myself and sign a couple of copies of #ClosetotheBone on a day when a lot of US friends seem to be stressing. After years of travel and the expat life, it’s sort of emotional to present myself as a homegrown author.
Order your copy from @otterbooksinc or online @amazoncan @indigo
@penguinrandomca @doubledayca @jayapriyavasudevan @nelsonbritishcolumbia #supportlocal
Bumble bee at the window.
#Nelson @nelsonbritishcolumbia
Time is truly nothing.
One year ago I was invited to speak about #ClosetotheBone at the Canadian Consulate in Delhi. Such a fine evening full of friends lives on in the memory.
And now, #ClosetotheBone is available in 🇨🇦 (and the US : hope readers will order once they pick themselves off the floor post election)
Stories travel even when we are constricted.
@penguinrandomca @doubledayca @harpercollinsin @jayapriyavasudevan
What a lovely post by @thebiancat : thank you. The ability to be open and vulnerable is predicated on both the speaker and the listener. Thanks for allowing me to open my heart.
I had an incredibly inspiring chat with @Lisaraniray about her book #CloseToTheBone, womanhood and motherhood. Check it out in the new @HelloCanada magazine! I wish I had an unlimited word count, but will be living off the recording of her beautiful words for the rest of 2020.
@doubledayca #ClosetotheBone
Current view.
#NelsonBC
@funkymaharani “Last December, rushing through Mumbai airport, I made a last minute dash into a bookstore. As I was leaving to board my flight back to Singapore, I saw, out of the corner of my eye, #CloseToTheBone, the @lisaraniray autobiography. I quickly picked up the book.
In mid-March this year, one day as I was rearranging my bedside drawer, I chanced upon the copy of #CloseToTheBone that I had purchased months earlier. As I opened the book, I was pleasantly surprised to see that I had purchased a signed copy. I began to read, and immediately felt a kind of kinship. Both Lisa and I are Indians who grew up in Canada. Both of us felt a tremendous pull to India. Both of us were obsessed with memorising world capitals growing up. As I was getting more into the book, I did a quick google search to see where Lisa now lived, and to my utter shock, I found out that she lived in Singapore! I reached out to Lisa and eventually my wife Sapna and I were able to catch up with Lisa and her husband Jason for dinner. It was a beautiful evening with two very genuinely lovely people.
The book is beautifully written and shines a light on a life well-lived, one that has never been bound by convention, and one that promises always to surprise those that are let in. Lisa has written a beautiful memoir filled with tales that inspire, illuminate and lift. The entire book is written in such a way that you always feel its light shining through.
One of the themes for me that kept presenting itself was the concept of Serendipity, an unplanned fortunate discovery. Me, randomly purchasing this book, finding out it was signed, discovering Lisa was here in Singapore, were little examples for me. And then there’s my favourite one: I was reading in the book that Lisa, on a trip back to India was shooting for @vogueindia and @anaitashroffadajania had gifted her a silver chain with an Angel Wing. An hour after I finished reading that, I received the final specifications for our Angel Wings Maang Tikka. Serendipity.
#CloseToTheBone is now available to purchase in North America. I highly recommend reading this beautiful book.”
@sjhangiani CEO and Co-Founder, Funky Maharani
Days like these…
No filter view from @nelsonbritishcolumbia
Happy Halloween!
This woman. So daring and original. Authentic and no bs. I’ve been smitten since we met at a talk for cancer survivors. She was going through chemo at the time. She was nauseous AND she showed up. Her voice and perspective is so needed. And now she’s written (another) book. Go @tahirakashyap! Keep on the path of showing us how to fearlessly be ourselves
Have you heard?
#ClosetotheBone releases in North America on November 3rd.
Ordered your copy yet?
@penguinrandomca @indigo @amazoncan
Quite giddy to see #ClosetotheBone available at one of my favourite independent bookstores on the West Coast @otterbooksinc
This space smells of words and stories. Super proud as a Nelsonite at heart 💓
Posted @withregram • @otterbooksinc Almost forgot! #newreleasetuesday !
Some fabulous new books just arrived!
#newbooks #newinstock #books #indiebookstore @nelsonbritishcolumbia @nelsonkootenaylake
It’s pub day for #ClosetotheBone in Canada and the U.S. Need a break from the anxiety-producing political Super Bowl south of the 49th? Read. Keep believing in the power of human stories to bring about change in individual hearts.
I present you with my heart felt offering: a travelogue of the soul, a testament to the fact that the further we travel, the closer we come to ourselves. Submit to the mystic and the path appears.
Thank you @penguinrandomca @doubledayca @jayapriyavasudevan and all the friends and readers
Order your copy from@your local bookstore @amazoncan @amazon @indigo today!
TODAY on q with @tompowercbc:celebrity chef @jamieoliver q fashion contributor @MoshaMosha actress and author @Lisaraniray cbc.ca/1.5785981
Posted @withregram • @speakthemag Speak 5 is now out at http://speakthemag.com/. Our first fully online issue, it features @lisaraniray on our cover along with an excerpt from her book Close to the Bone @closetothebone.book an interview with @yashicadutt by @schmiesl and contributions by @sumanasiliguri @siddharthgovindan, as well as pieces from previous issues by @cyberbirk @amit_chaudhuri @schmiesl @ruth_padel Thank you.
So well deserved. I’m grinning from ear to ear.
Second time’s a charm. My director, friend and mentor, Deepa more than deserves to bring the Oscar home this time.
Posted @withregram • @dilipmehtainstantly FUNNY BOY Deepa Mehta’s riveting film adaptation of award-winning Sri Lankan novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the deadly Tamil-Sinhalese conflict is Canada’s nomination for Oscars 2021.
Somewhere over the rainbow indeed…
@deepamehtaofficial
Posted @withregram • @shiloshivsuleman This is the thing about me and you. It’s that we come from the very same thing and we return to the very same thing.
Soil.
Earthbound, ours is a love story laced with mineral matter.
You are phosphorous / magnesium.
I am red bone bare. I am copper / nitrogen/ sulphate /
I am thirsty
parched
.fertile.
(I want you to) lean in soft bodied and whisper- you will return to me and we will turn into the garden.
you will return to me and we will turn into the garden.
Anahata/ that which cannot be wounded.
oil painted under the tutelage of @gahanlive
gratitude to @abhimanyualsisar for introductions 🌙
2020
Posted @withregram • @cryptonaturalist Your feelings about the election are valid.
But a gentle reminder:
Focusing on global/national events can make you feel small and powerless.
You are neither.
Zoom in.
Adjust your perspective to your life, your community, your people.
Root yourself in the kindnesses of home. #election2020 #selfcare
Posted @withregram • @shahzia.sikander ❤️ @wmag
Repost from @wmag
•
TAKE A STAND I One day before the election, allow @shahzia.sikander’s poster to serve as an important reminder. For our New Originals issue, we invited 18 artists of color to envision a new kind of political poster. Visit the link in bio to see the full portfolio.
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Artwork: @shahzia.sikander
W VOLUME FOUR, THE NEW ORIGINALS ISSUE
Next read.
@otterbooksinc
Posted @withregram • @embodiedphilosophy That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I went closer,
and I did not die.
Surely God
had his hand in this,
as well as friends.
Still, I was bent,
and my laughter,
as the poet said,
was nowhere to be found.
Then said my friend Daniel,
(brave even among lions),
“It’s not the weight you carry
but how you carry it –
books, bricks, grief –
it’s all in the way
you embrace it, balance it, carry it
when you cannot, and would not,
put it down.”
So I went practicing.
Have you noticed?
Have you heard
the laughter
that comes, now and again,
out of my startled mouth?
How I linger
to admire, admire, admire
the things of this world
that are kind, and maybe
also troubled –
roses in the wind,
the sea geese on the steep waves,
a love
to which there is no reply?
— “Heavy” by Mary Oliver
Image: detail from Henry Darger
Posted @withregram • @brycesmom310 With traditional book launches at venues and corner bookstores a distant memory…I decided I’d post this additional little mix I made ahead of a busy week of virtual interviews for Lisa ahead of #ClosetotheBone’s North American release on Nov. 3rd! 👑❤️💫 @lisaraniray @closetothebone.book
This exemplary work of art at @dag.world shows Jehangir Sabavala’s easy command over academic subjects. The synthesis of Western training and Indian sensibility helped him create a unique vocabulary in an age when Indian artists were processing various postcolonial ideologies in their work.
Currently on exhibit at DAG’s The World Will Go On, a gratitude sale of pre-modern and modern Indian art, until 12 November 2020…
Find this and more fine works that re-visit the simple pleasures that nature, culture and sacred mythologies offer us, in their Online Viewing Room at dagworld.com
#TheWorldWillGoOn #ThinkArt #ThinkDAG #ModernArt #19thCenturyArt #20thCenturyArt
Posted @withregram • @shilpaguptastudio From a bathroom sink to a book shelf, the Threat soaps have found different sites of being
An interactive installation which the viewers disassemble, by taking away a brick sized Threat bathing soap
Currently installed at @copenhagen_contemporary as part of ‘In Focus: Statements’ curated by Jannie Haageman who writes, “Shilpa Gupta’s work from 2008–09 consisting of soaps inscribed with the word Threat – no longer solely associated with debates on ethnicity and identity politics, but also on hygiene and danger of infection”
Am amazing show with works by Monica Bonvicini, Jenny Holzer, Adrian Piper, Jeremy Deller, Sam Durant, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Yoko Ono and others. For those in and around Copenhagen, its on upto 20th December 2020.
#threat #wash #bookshelf #shilpagupta #soap #everydayobjects #fragment
