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 2013-02-22
Nadya had been wanting to film a documentary. I suggested that if she wanted to film in India that the economy there was different, and depending on her budget and interests that she could consider filming there. We talked about different subjects; she settled on Arun Pathak and began talking to him on Skype. Arun […]
Posted in art, India | Tagged Arun Pathak, documentary, Nadya Kadrevis
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 2011-11-04
Nandan Nilekani is most famous for having been so successful as CEO of one of India’s largest software companies, Infosys. He since left a lot of business-only interests and took a cabinet-level central government position (chair of the Unique Identification Authority of India) as a person who would head the design, implementation, and regulation of […]
Posted in computer, India | Tagged identification, website
By bluerasberry on 2011-08-24
Nandan had told me that he was working with a British documentary crew and that things were cool. He has worked with with film crews before and he seems to enjoy it and some good work has been done. The day before the shoot they say, “Oh, Richard Dawkins is hosting this. You are his […]
Posted in India, service industry | Tagged celebrity, science
By bluerasberry on 2011-05-15
I met Father Anand for the first time on April 16, Palm Sunday. Ravi and I went to the Catholic church to talk to him and watch this play they were organizing to teach the story of Easter. There were strange things about the service as compared to other Catholic services and I wondered what […]
Posted in India, work | Tagged videography
By bluerasberry on 2011-05-15
Sarukh and Abdul arrived the week I was going to leave and I was very happy to see them. Nandan’s father had a problem with Sarukh because he did not have legal ID, so I suggested that I would put them in a hotel. Nandan’s father wanted me to stay inside the house because he […]
Posted in gay stuff, India | Tagged dance, sex, wedding
By bluerasberry on 2011-05-11
I have been trying to learn some Bengali sign language and it has been fun for me to try to communicate with Abdul. I feel bad about regional sign languages; they seem like languages with little history or cultural attachment and I get this idea in my hide that there should be a big international […]
Posted in India, non-profit | Tagged language
By bluerasberry on 2011-04-30
So Nandan and I went to Kolkata to retrieve that 250kg of books I sent there from Seattle back in January. It arrived March 3 but no one contacted us or became aware of its arrival. I had the American shipper track it and he found in it Kolkata. We hired a customs house agent […]
Posted in encounter, India, museum, tour | Tagged Kolkata
By bluerasberry on 2011-04-30
I went out the next day with Nandan and we Sarukh and Abdul and they said they would show us around Kolkata. They pointed out different things and played frisbee in a park on our way to the Victoria Memorial, which was easily the best-presented museum I have yet seen in India due to the […]
Posted in art, India, museum, tour | Tagged Kolkata