[Reader-list] Roses - I-Fellow Parismita's posting

[parismita singh]

I-fellow Parismita's posting -

To read the post with the visuals go to -
http://parismitasingh.blogspot.com/

Hello everyone,

Bit of a break between postings, but will make up this
month. Five months into the I-fellow schedule, this is
a good time for  reflecting a little on work done (and
undone)..

As it happens, I have strayed quite a bit from my
topic as I originally envisaged it. These things are
difficult to predict ,but I'm quite happy with the
'shape' things have taken. The central concerns of
race, gender, belonging, identity and memory remain
but have taken unexpected forms.The surprise element (
well for me at least) was that they didn't even stay
'stories', veering towards other forms like
meditations . Though I would not strictly categorise
them as either.
The building that was to be central to my stories
disappeared.( The first blog piece ). And I watched in
horror as the stories refused to be 'stories' and
spilt out of the building into other spaces - streets,
parks - and some of them are indeed homeless.Now, a
few months later - I am even more surprised to see an
'unity' of sorts arise, and hopefully by August I will
have what will be a 'series' of short pieces ( and
extracts from a long piece) .

(The rest of this post will not make sense unless you
are looking at the visuals on my blog)

I waited a bit before I put up this piece .Its a
little too direct , the players all too familiar,
violent, and a piece that if interpreted in a
'sentimental ' way , would be disastrous. Perhaps, it
is unnecessary too...( I must restrain myself from
holding forth on how it should not be read ).But a
blog does give one the freedom to put up imperfect
pieces ( and as imperfect pieces go , I do have a soft
corner for this one!).And this way, I dont have to
watch faces for a reaction or giggle nervously so here
it is... 

Thanks!
Parismita


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