Cute jhoot!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/books/review/Chotiner-t.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin


Well, the review is interesting. But particularly interesting is the picture the NYT chose to caption this article with.See it. Fabulous image. Symbolic if you ponder about it.But who has the time really.Steve McCurry has some more fabulous images of India:
http://www.stevemccurry.com/main.php
but go through them...you realize what a color freak he is.And also who all have been 'inspired' by his images.

There's an image of a turbaned, mustachioed Indian peasant at the waiting lobby in St V's ID clinic. When I asked the attending why it is here- seemed more than a tad out of place- he remarked that it 'looks great.'And "we attract quite a diverse population of patients here" And finished by saying that he thought India was an interesting country.

Wonder what he exactly meant by that( or whether it was another one of those polite nothings that are part of the culture of this north east part of the US) and whatever cuteness that image might add to the St V waiting room, I wouldn't be wrong in saying that we seem to like this perceived image of ourselves.What do they think about us? Our colors, our clothes and whatever fancy pansy Boho( my granny calls that 'lambaadi')stuff we chose to make our exhibit with. Should we celebrate a cute image or our people, the emotion.Somebody chose the former as an election campaign and it was a disaster.

( Btw: See Sharbat Gula's image on the National Geographic website -shot some 20 years after the original snap became a similar cute wallpaper exhibit...looks monstrously stupid!!!)Another Steve McCurry ka curried offering!