🙏🏼 deep bows to our frontline workers. In India and everywhere.
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UPDATE: I’m very political but choose not to indulge my politics during a humanitarian crisis. This is a repost of a tweet by a DOCTOR in India. Please don’t post political views- even ones I am aligned with- here. The polarising discourse emerging from India is toxic and draining from both sides. Use your own platform to vent your anger and anguish. Let’s be clear, the current government has a frightening amount of failings. But this is not about that. This is solely dedicated to celebrating frontline workers in India. Yes, the administration has failed India, the negligence and lack of support for citizens is monstrous. There is a an indictment of the governance that led to this situation embedded in the words. If you can’t see it, we don’t see language as a subversive weapon in the same way 🙏🏼 my deepest condolences to everyone who has lost someone they love during these devastating times.
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Via @shunalikhullarshroff1
Jazz is threaded through my memories, from sultry Bombay evenings of wonder and discovery on the rooftop of the Ripon Club for jams organised by @adsingholive to electric Jazz Yatra nights with friends like @farrokhchothia. I wrote in Close to the Bone about how my life in the 90s resembled a jazz score – sometimes harmonious, often times spinning out into discordant notes, but always surprising and revelatory. When @arrahman approached me to play the character of Sheela, the ‘jazz diva of Shillong’, I was thrilled to embody her as a sort of homage to the soundtrack of my life.
I hope you all will be able to experience 99 Songs when it’s released on a steaming platform, and once India has weathered through this horrendous crisis. For now, here’s some bts of Sheela.
Stay safe. Stay home. Double mask. Play some jazz. As Sheela says: ‘jazz is for the living’
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Science says it’s good for you too:
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‘When you listen to jazz, the music stimulates a calming effect on your body, signalling your central nervous system to lower your respiratory rate and heart rate. According to research, jazz also improves your verbal ability, focus, memory and mood, as was noted in patients that had suffered from a stroke.’
#internationaljazzday
Let me preface this by saying I’m a terrible dancer. But, hey, it doesn’t stop me from throwing my hips and expressions into it 🤣
Posted @withregram • @brycesmom.310 #InternationalDanceDay2021 you say?? Why not celebrate with a clip from #Umara’s #Sangeet dance 💃 on @4moreshotspls ?!
What the actors see vs what you see on television! How hard they work BTS to make it seem so effortless when you watch the final product.
Does this song sound familiar? Well, you may recognize it from #BollywoodHollywood… #RangRang. Except it hit a little different in 2020…but @lisaraniray proved she can still kill it 18 years later! 😉
#LisaRay #LisaRaniRay #BaniJ #FourMoreShotsPlease #India #RangRang #SangeetDance #InternationalDanceDay #Bollywood #StreamingNow #AmazonPrime
Anyone else feel like tearing their hair out? Soleil’s very good at it.
Did you smile? Just a little bit?
We’re all just going a little bit insane.
Image @barbarichphoto
Swipe to see which book of timeless invocations are injecting a shot of serenity and perspective into my life right now.
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shrutam deva maya sarvam rudra yamala sambhavam
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‘Beloved, I have been listening to the hymns of creation.’
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#TheRadianceSutras @lorinroche
Image @kootenaybizphoto for @maisonbirks
If you are in the mood, here’s a podcast for
@bbcworldservice #Outlook about serendipity, the path we choose, the path chosen for us and my book, Close to the Bone.
Available on apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/outlook/id333469871
And on the Beeb site: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09g0l63
Stolen moments.
An interlude with nature (and a nymph)
Yup. That’s our Sufi rolling her way into the week ☀️
Posted @withregram • @barbarichphoto Rolling into this week…
It’s going to be a good one!
Two elopements and a baby!
Well, three babies if you count the ones at the elopements 😂
What’s on deck for you?
#documentaryfamilyphotographer #documentaryfamilyphotos #unposedfamilies #letthembewild #wildfamilies #momentsthatmatter #reallife #reallifephotography #candidkids #candidfamily #familylife #familyphotos #storytellers #familystories #nelsonbcphotographer #nelsonbc #kootenaylife #kootenaylove #kootenayphotographer #nelsonkootenaylake #explorebc #dancinggirl #childhoodmemories #realchildhood #letthembewild #childhoodunscripted #barbarichphoto #nelsonbc #learntodance #dancefree #moveyourbody
Today’s reality bomb via @goodtalkthanks
A culture is not just what you take from it. If yoga, Ayurveda, turmeric latte, meditation has touched your life in some way, it’s time to click the link in my bio.
What say @aloyoga @lululemon and all the other companies and individuals profiting from mama India’s ancient practises?
How’s your call and response muscles today?
🇨🇦 Canuck style ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response for those not in the know- like me a few weeks ago 😜)
Posted @withregram • @colorsofhoney I recently watched a video by @Kurzgesagt, where they spoke about Emergence and how stupid things become smart together, like ants. And although humans are not stupid, we do indeed do great things when we work together, especially for a cause and greater good. The key is to be selfless and empathize with people in need. In a time when selflessness is so crucial for human lives, many, unfortunately are taking advantage of this situation in India and profiting off of people’s dire state. Oxygen cylinders are being sold for 10x the normal price, and many just choose to think that nothing is happening, that the media is blowing everything out of proportion. Painting a rosy picture about the situation and ignoring what others are going through will ultimately come to hurt us all. The time to be selfless is now.
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Find out more information about where to donate here:
Bit.ly/MutualAidIndia
Bit.ly/3dVL5nF
I’ve recently come to realise there’s a splintering beauty and the type that clots your blood. And each are necessary, in their own season.
Posted @withregram • @ijroth HEART BREAKING 💔 What is happening in the world, and particularly in India right now, where industrial oxygen supply is running out, and people die waiting for hospital beds, is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis. 😢 A crisis that exposes systems that have never been designed for the benefit of all but for just a few; a crisis that highlights the many brave and powerful stories of strangers helping strangers; a crisis that is here to stay if we collectively don’t turn around in the way we live our daily lives, treat nature with respect, eat the right food, consume mindfully, and give without expecting back. 🌿💖 If you feel helpless or overwhelmed right now, and don’t know what to do, remember that each of us can help in little small ways within our direct environment. Check on your neighbors, and send fruits, medicine or kind words. Buy dog or cat food for the ones who have pets, or take them in for a while. Donate money to verified organisations, help finding beds or doctors, and ensure that you are not creating more unnecessary fear or worry. Call your friends and family, especially the ones who are not well or feel very low, and cheer them up, or just listen with as much empathy as possible. Never forget: every little act of kindness matters as it is the light that shines with hope in times of intense darkness. 💖
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Posted @withregram • @jilpanz ‘The honesty, wisdom and pain of this writing add up to something very important: truth. Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi writes with unflinching truth about the unbearable, and thus makes it, at least, comprehensible’ – Salman Rushdie, author of Midnight’s Children
What does it mean to lose someone? To answer this timeless question, bestselling author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi draws on a string of devastating personal losses of his mother, of his father and of a beloved pet to craft a moving memoir of death and grief.
With surgical detachment and subtle feeling, Shanghvi charts the landscape of bereavement as he takes the reader down the dark, winding path to healing. Clear-eyed and intimate, Loss is the first Volume of non-fiction by one of India’s most beloved writer of life experience.
Loss is a finely tuned reflection on the death of parents, the effects of orphaning, a sustained search in which you’ll hear echoes of your own relationship with death and parents because at each moment Shanghvi opens outward toward vision instead of remaining mired in sorrow. You’ll be delighted by the flexibility and turns of an elegant mind’ – David Vann, author of Legend of a Suicide
We are in the midst of extraordinary grief ~ from helplessness, desperation, insecurity and loss. Books have often offered solace.
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This is a helpful start for friends outside India.
Donate what you can. Find the full article @nytimes for the comprehensive list.
Personally, I feel this is not the time for cynicism or politics.
Humanity must always win 🙏🏼
Thanks @rashmivarma for sharing this resource
Posted @withregram • @give_india Even severely-ill Covid patients who have managed to procure beds are now dying because of shortage of oxygen in hospitals – this is the news we are seeing every day. We are partnering with our trusted NGO network to ramp up oxygen supply across several metros. Please donate now and share this post widely: Link in Bio
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I have never been as attuned to the moon and it’s cycles as since the pandemic began. I won’t venture to say silver lining, but the moon’s presence, the way it dresses and delights through all its phases, has provided late night asylum when I need it.
Posted @withregram • @aninditaghose The @parisreview has a new monthly column by @ninamaclaughlin called The Moon is Full to “illuminate humanity’s long-standing lunar fascination.”
From the first column:
“Between us / we had seventeen words / to describe the moon,” writes the poet Arundhathi Subramaniam. I wonder what they were. Let’s see how many we can come up with.
Before that, one word. In more than two dozen languages, the words for month and moon are the same. In Croatian, mjesec; Czech, měsíc; Slovak, mesiac. In Filipino, buwan; in Malay, bulan. In Japanese, 月 (tsuki); Hmong, lub hlis; Maori, marama; Igbo, onwa; and Zulu, inyanga. In Romanian, Estonian, Uzbek, and Turkish: lună, kuu, oy, ay. Our timekeeper, our month maker, our definer of cycles, tetherballing around us in 27.32-day spans.”
#ninamaclaughlin #parisreview #lunarchronicles #fullmoon #fullmoon🌕 #fullmoonenergy
Not that anyone asked, but I think a sign of good mental health is walking around feeling like an alien. I just don’t buy this version of reality anymore. Where’s the switch?
Posted @withregram • @newyorkermag We come in good health. #NewYorkerCartoons
🖋 @t.j.hamilton.
Book haul keeping me afloat.
I’ve been waiting for this to land for a while. Ordered from RISD (@risd1877) what feels like years ago, and here we are, with our own Extraordinary Realities to contend with.
Diving into the pioneering body of work by one of my favourite artists @shahzia.sikander who is celebrated for expanding and subverting miniature painting to explore a plethora of contemporary issues.
Art is refuge. Art is a dwelling between roiling worlds.
Via @manshakauranand and @devsanyal :
Transparency even in this moment of crisis in India is a priority for donors both from within India and overseas. I can verify the entrepreneurs and fine citizens behind @missionoxygenindia stand for action and transparency – something India desperately needs during crisis 🙏🏼
#helpingindiabreatheagain
Posted @withregram • @sonaksha Please share this document collating ongoing mutual aid fundraisers for the #CovidEmergency in India WIDELY, including with folks outside India. If you can donate, please do.
LINK IN BIO: bit.ly/MutualAidIndia
This is a publicly sourced document put together to the best ability of volunteers. Please filter for urgent needs first, marked in red as . Please check if the funds have been raised on the donate-link before donating.
This is NOT a formal organisation. We are doing our best to support mutual aid in these terrible times. Our priority is to support vulnerable people, and we do NOT ask for photos as ‘evidence’ since that goes against our ethics. Please do not hold us to that standard.
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#mutualaid #covid19india #copingwithcovid #feministart
