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Flavours of the hills. A Boy With Drumsticks Who Got A Little Lucky. Srijan Mahajan is a musician based in New Delhi. He plays the drums for Parikrama, Cyanide Half Step Down and the Shubha Mudgal Band. Srijan is also part of an electronic duo, FuzzCulture, and runs his own studio, StudioFuzz. How would you introduce yourself to our readers? Give us your name, the brand of cigarettes you smoke, and the pop-tart, oops star, you'd most like to have a fling with. And anything else you may think is important. Does the main reason you're a musician have anything to do with twenty-one year old female fans at your gigs? You've played in some fairly successful bands. You seem to have a wide range of musical pursuits. Which of the above do you think is the most rewarding? Do you see yourself balding, getting a pot-belly, nicotine-induced wrinkles and doing exactly what you're doing today, thirty years from now? If you were to star in Coffee and Cigarettes (the movie!)

Into the Wilderness | ID. Becoming Human — Building a Foundation In late 2014, we embarked on a journey of reflection, inquiry and self-discovery. Many organizations call this exercise a "re-brand," but it became so much more for us. Although it originated within the creative team at VSCO, it quickly grew into a company wide initiative.

Collectively, the company examined, embraced and at times challenged who we were. Our design team employs a research centric methodology across a wide spectrum of projects, from product design to brand marketing. The "re-brand" project began with this iterative cycle of research-reflection. Over the course of 9 weeks, what fascinated us most was the unique ability of human beings to express themselves - in language, emotion, art, music, and so on , and this tension of space in human life: the space between each other, within a community and within the constraints of a natural world that is both predictable by science and yet completely chaotic. Celebrate Human-ness About ID. Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - Multimedia Feature.

Everest, 1965. At 82, Mulk Raj is a man who walks straight and tall—like most of the still living members of the 1965 expedition—and speaks with a twinkle in his eye. For him, the idea for the expedition was seeded back in 1962, high up the south-eastern route to the summit of Everest. "That expedition was led by one of the greatest mountaineers, Major John Dias," Raj says. “We were coming down the Lhotse Face and, of course, wishing we had done it. We had missed it by 400ft. This was a time when the Sino-Indian border was rumbling with ambition of a different kind, building up to the war of 1962. The logistics were exceptional in their scale, cooperation and entrepreneurship. The expedition's cargo, ready to be taken from Jaynagar, Bihar, to Everest. “Unfortunately for us, ‘Make in India’ had started then,” says Colonel Narendra “Bull” Kumar (retired), 81. While most of the boots were re-engineered, some reindeer-leather boots were imported for the summit climb.

Base Camp. Chinese Worker Poet Xu Linshi's Life and Death. The Poet Who Died For Your Phone Hundreds of thousands of people travel from China’s countryside to its cities to work in factories, building devices for international consumers and trying to assemble better lives for themselves. Xu Lizhi left behind a haunting record of that life By Emily Rauhala / Shenzhen and Jieyang He dreamed about it, wrote about it. He rolled it around in the palm of his hand. Working through the “dark night of overtime” in January 2014, the 23-year-old Xu Lizhi imagined himself like a misplaced screw, “plunging vertically, lightly clinking,” lost to the factory floor. “It won’t attract anyone’s attention,” he wrote. A village boy with clothes-hanger shoulders and a high school education, Xu moved to the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in 2011. In his 3½ years in Shenzhen, Xu captured life there in brutal, beautiful detail. In the factory city, 2011 was a sad and strange time.

That, of course, was only part of the story. The world of words was his only respite. The Tyranny of Love, and other stories - Kindle MagazineKindle Magazine. Sayan Bhattacharya provides six perspectives on love. Love as Sentimental Sexuality Gaspar Noé is known to shock his audience. People have vomited and walked out of his films at Cannes and other places. While many have found the violence—often sexual—exploitative and misogynistic, others have read layers of meaning into the films—the postmodern human condition where there are no grand purposes or motives anymore. But in either case, one cannot ignore the man. So in 2015, when he decided to flip the coin and present love instead of violence, the world sat up. However, in true Noé style, his Love wouldn’t be just about boys and girls falling in love.

Before one can think further on those lines, one sees the protagonists pleasuring each other in the very first frame of the film. The screaming font makes one wonder, are we going to witness love or war? Sex becomes the expression of love. So then, where is the problem? What explains the boredom at viewing this form of intimacy?

Love as Tyranny.