When her majesty Queen Harish graced ROTD with her presence in an earlier comment…we felt compelled to invite her to dance…I give you Queen Harish “the whirling dancing desert drag queen”:
Queen Harish is my alter ego – drag is in my blood, and while I am dressed as her I can let loose all my [...]
December 24, 2007
Categories: CULTURE VULTURE, QUEER DESI, RAJASTHAN . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: No Comments
Tis the Season to get Wasted…tra la la la la la la la la
Pour a drink you haven’t tasted….tra la la la la la la la
Old Monk Rum, Bacardi, Brandy… tra la la la la la la
grab whichever bottle’s handy….tra la la la la la la la la
This original composition is coming to you [...]
December 24, 2007
Categories: THE BIOSCOPE, WASTED DESI . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: 1 Comment
and an old soul stepped out of the desert lands…and he brought with him a small forked metal instrument that was the whole of the desert…and time got distracted by his playing and made the universe stand still for a moment…and it sounded something like this… (only obviously much much cooler in person)
Morchang:
the fadereu:
Darbar Morchang [...]
December 24, 2007
Categories: CULTURE VULTURE, MUSIC, RAJASTHAN . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: No Comments
Listen to this guy- it combines the high subtle notes of a frenetic sitar raga and the heavy riffs of a Jimmy Page guitar solo. He’s quite a trippy guy actually and appears to be a tantrik Kali devotee. Do check out his website.
December 15, 2007
Categories: MUSIC, THE LOST & FOUND . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: 2 Comments
image from pirategirl
AHMADABAD, India (AP) — In India, death is a part of life - and, at one restaurant in western India, a part of lunch. The bustling New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad is famous for its milky tea, its buttery rolls, and the graves between the tables.
It’s a spot where old men page [...]
December 12, 2007
Categories: DESI GHOSTS, STRANGE DESI NEWS . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: No Comments
If you haven’t heard of the mythic tale of Nagamandala…the tale of a snake who falls in love with a woman and seduces her in the form of a her husband…then you probably weren’t as surprised as I was to read of an actual woman, Bimbala Das, who fell in love with a snake, and [...]
December 12, 2007
Categories: MYTHOLOGICAL DESI, SNAKES R US . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: No Comments
This is one of those songs that’s been playing over and over in my head-just somehow crept inside… I looked up the lyrics and found the soul power hard rock orientalism rather cute- seems like when Stephen Tyler came to India he ate some vidaloo and then some New Age Desi chick shagged his bones [...]
December 12, 2007
Categories: MUSIC . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: 2 Comments
I shit therefore I am.
image from link
India’s sanitation specialist Sulabh International, led by its visionary founder Bindeshwar Pathak, has succeeded in developing a strong raw material out of human waste and Mexico-based designers Santiago Sierra and Mariana David have designed doors out it.
The doors have been put on display at the Lisson Art Gallery [...]
December 9, 2007
Categories: INSANE INVENTIONS, STRANGE DESI NEWS, THE LOST & FOUND . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: No Comments
okhai so this happened a few weeks ago but it deserves to be seen over an over again…another Algorhythmic mantra from DJ Fadereu…read more at algomantra.com
On 3rd of November 2007, AlgoMantra Labs hosted its first public demo for an exclusive audience (viz., after Cellphabet) of parab0xx. Please watch the accompanying YouTube video to see the [...]
December 6, 2007
Categories: INSANE INVENTIONS . . Author: remainsofthedesi . Comments: No Comments