By bluerasberry on 2015-07-31
This is an archival copy of the following source: Oza, Nandini; Bhattacherjee, Kallol (22 April 2014). “THE FORGOTTEN HALF“. week.manoramaonline.com. Malayala Manorama. Archived from the original at http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekContent.do?contentId=16673695 on 23 June, 2015. EXCLUSIVE EYEWITNESS REPORT The year was 1968. The house of Damodardas and Hiraba Modi in Vadnagar in north Gujarat was bustling with activity. […]
Posted in India, love | Tagged censorship, Jashodaben, wedding
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-03
Marcus was upset with me when I was in India. I did not feel that he was justified in his original complaint, but in the end, we decided not to talk anymore. It was a bad breakup but I am not sure what could have made it better. While I was in India, I did […]
Posted in gay stuff, love, New York City | Tagged drama, Marcus
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-22
The night of 13 February I returned from Kumbh Mela with Sou, and I had wanted a peaceful 14 February morning and day with him. Hotels were crazy overbooked in Varanasi and I had not been able to find a room, and I asked Nadya if she could share a room with her cameraman so […]
Posted in festival, gay stuff, India, love, religion, tour | Tagged Kumbh Mela, Nadya Kadrevis, Sherwin, wedding
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-21
On perhaps February 12 Sou and I went to some mall to exchange a broken suitcase of his. Sou has, and Indian people in general can have, attitudes about service workers that I rarely see in Western culture. Sou pushes my limits for detecting how suave a person could be, and if he had any […]
Posted in gay stuff, India, love, service industry | Tagged Sherwin
By bluerasberry on 2013-01-29
I had planned a month-long trip to India, leaving from JFK Airport on Sunday 20 January and leaving from Indira Gandhi Airport the morning of Saturday 6 February. Nadya had asked me about doing a documentary in India and I told her many things, and she settled on Arun Pathak. She had been talking to […]
Posted in Kolkata, love | Tagged Arun Pathak, Sherwin, Tanvir Rahman
By bluerasberry on 2011-07-25
I have been dating this boy named Xu since the middle of June and we have been seeing each other a few times a week. He is from Liaoning, which is the coastal province of China which shares a border with North Korea. He is doing a logistics program through Penn State’s industrial engineering department […]
Posted in China, love, personal, Seattle, tour