Monday, January 22, 2018

Benaras Standard Time: The Book (Chapters I-VI)

Possible table of contents

I. 2009: Benaras Triptych
             i.a. Four Days In February
             i.b. Monsoon's Moonson
             i.c. Archaeology of Qurobear
II. 2010: Traces of Dara Okat & Hinterland
III. 2011: The Shiva Incident + Aftermath
IV. 2012: Shivala Ricochet
V. 2013: Subterranean Entropy
VI. 2018: Anonymity Almighty

The book elaborates on subjects ranging from strangely banal to supernatural, detailed analysis & character-studies of people I have met on all these visits, the conversations and music we shared and collectively created, ideas for a future utopia, drawings and diary notes of mystic encounters, apocalyptic incidents in a little oasis in Shivala Ghat, the depth of the Indian Raga, the unexpected discovery of the Dhrupad Sampradaya and Pallab Das, the alleged captain of the ship sailing to the North Star, fooling around for the camera in a bear costume (from Chowk), scaling walls to shoot in ancient haveli's on the Ganga, cryptic studies of nature's wear-and-tear via the macrophotographic form manifest as Abstraktkollisions on every nook and corner of this place!



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