In February this year, I would have completed five years of blogging. Each year around this time, I'd think about the blog with an
intention of evaluating the space and my motivations. What does it mean to
blog? Why a blog? why about homes? Whose home? Mine? Others- These and other questions I did not
articulate to myself very well in the beginning.
What to say? How to say? Will there be stuff to talk about all the time? will people read?
What to say? How to say? Will there be stuff to talk about all the time? will people read?
Each time I tried to pin down the answers, other important distractions veered me off course. Only this year, I am going to do it!
Before January gets by and this baby is already Februaryish ripe and passing. Here is the first post of the year. A little late perhaps but other things have been kept waiting. Hopefully there will be lots of posts and much to share in the successive months of 2013, but it all begins with this mission statement of sorts.
Before January gets by and this baby is already Februaryish ripe and passing. Here is the first post of the year. A little late perhaps but other things have been kept waiting. Hopefully there will be lots of posts and much to share in the successive months of 2013, but it all begins with this mission statement of sorts.
When I started, this is all I could think the blog was going to
be about :
"Inside. homes. life. kitchen. photography. stories. outside. journeys. travel. meandering. constructions-deconstructions."
Random. Just a broad list of topics. "Kitchen capers" ?!! did I really say that? Does it get more superficial than that ?
--When with the benefit of hindsight, I can already say that
what has come off the journey has been anything but!.
With a little more thought, here is what it is:
With a little more thought, here is what it is:
A document about home- mine and others I encounter. Home as a shelter that houses, families, people, hopes, dreams,
aspirations. The aesthetics and practical matters that go into making it home.
Not so much life as ways of living- the cultural, aesthetic and art of living. That would include traditions, cultures, arts and crafts.
Why people build? how they build? Cities that are threaded together by many homes, buildings, structures, and spaces in general. And because the private and public are interconnected, markets, bazaars, gardens, museums- pretty much wherever serendipity leads. So journeys near and far.
The past and the present. Histories, traditions that ought to inform and empower.
All of that and also kitchen capers...;) and other capers of sane and insane variety is what this blog is all about..!
As for the psychology, dramas, laughter, blood, tears and dreams that also go into making homes, will leave most of that out, most of the time :) - that makes the girl in the girlabouthome a bit of a nonentity.. but its better that way.
About me? I am a drifter. Always running from this and that..Escape with me. If you like a particular escapade, leave me a line, am always up for a conversation... so I will revert no matter what.
Apart from that I am also a photographer and writer. Love cities- my current affair with Mumbai well into the third year.. I do all the things that avid city lovers do- walk around, connect with one neighbourhood or the other regularl, photograph, read and learn something about the place every day. A lot of my city stories spill on to my other blog : Girlabouttown...
This major task out of my way..promise to be back to the business of updating the blog the fastest I can... If for some reason my wanderings lead me astray for intervals, please bear with me.. Although I tend to go off radars every now and then, I do almost always come back!
Not so much life as ways of living- the cultural, aesthetic and art of living. That would include traditions, cultures, arts and crafts.
Why people build? how they build? Cities that are threaded together by many homes, buildings, structures, and spaces in general. And because the private and public are interconnected, markets, bazaars, gardens, museums- pretty much wherever serendipity leads. So journeys near and far.
The past and the present. Histories, traditions that ought to inform and empower.
All of that and also kitchen capers...;) and other capers of sane and insane variety is what this blog is all about..!
As for the psychology, dramas, laughter, blood, tears and dreams that also go into making homes, will leave most of that out, most of the time :) - that makes the girl in the girlabouthome a bit of a nonentity.. but its better that way.
About me? I am a drifter. Always running from this and that..Escape with me. If you like a particular escapade, leave me a line, am always up for a conversation... so I will revert no matter what.
Apart from that I am also a photographer and writer. Love cities- my current affair with Mumbai well into the third year.. I do all the things that avid city lovers do- walk around, connect with one neighbourhood or the other regularl, photograph, read and learn something about the place every day. A lot of my city stories spill on to my other blog : Girlabouttown...
This major task out of my way..promise to be back to the business of updating the blog the fastest I can... If for some reason my wanderings lead me astray for intervals, please bear with me.. Although I tend to go off radars every now and then, I do almost always come back!