[Reader-list] Hygiene and the City- Pages from the book 2

[Vishal Rawlley]

Chitra,

I discovered your project quite by chance, going on to find that you are a
Sarai fellow and have been posting to the reader list - posts that I had
never bothered to open. I never could guess that 'Hygiene and the City' is a
graphic book project.

This is to congratulate you. Your project is just brilliant!!! You capture
the unquantifiable essence of the city that shrouds it yet escapes
description. There is the macro and the micro view of things, but here is an
electron-microscopic view of the urban condition - the Mumbai protoplasm
stands exposed. Your illustrations are really evocative and the narrative
strategies very fresh. The combination of the scientific approach dissolving
into fantasy, testimonials blurring into myth and faithful
documentation turning into surreal imagery left me quite stunned!

It has been a bit tedious going through the low rez images with barely
readable text but well worth it. I hope that you can compile your book into
a pdf form - whenever you are ready. One can see the tenuous narrative
coming together, do keep at it.

Best,
Vishal

p.s. [Download my comic strip book
here<http://cvenkataramani.googlepages.com/comicstrips.pdf>.]
- from http://cvenkataramani.googlepages.com/ does not work correctly. The
pdf file for download is corrupted. Can you fix this please! Thx.


On 7/30/07, Chitra Venkataramani <clinicalexam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The book continues to be posted on
>
> http://www.hygienebook.blogspot.com
>
> Regards,
>
> Chitra Venkataramani
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