her name

"...according to the legend, the dragons give you a secret name in their language. and you must never disclose this name. to tell anyone your dragon name is to give them power over you. any time they call out to you, you have to go to them, you are drawn to them."

"that afternoon in your house, i felt as if i was telling you my dragon name. and now you know it and you can do with it what you will."

fourteen years and counting

"...after the darkness was created, his days were spent being hunted by it. it didn't want to hunt him, it just wanted him to feel hunted. and so it chased him all day, being careful not to ever catch him. but not letting him escape either.

one day, he made the choice and stopped. with a planet of fear in his heart, he turned around and looked at the darkness for the very first time. and it was his face he saw in it.

from that day on, he made everything light. the darkness stayed dark, but it was so bright, it couldn't see him."

"it reminded me of you."

new site

jasmine tea
moonpeak cafe
mcleod ganj
red moleskine
now on www.tanushrishukla.com

in three weeks

i went from
a noisy cricket match

into a bus with a funky geometric floor

out a dinky airplane

into a city more tibet than india

with a quirky restaurant

and lovely tibetan thenthuk with a book

to a silent forest

and a whispery ashram where i could take no pictures but made many doodles (coming up)

to a music-filled house

to a perfect, silent train journey into the desert

straight on to a chaotic film set

and back to the city
to familiar things, both sad and funny

and barely a week later, i've already booked my tickets to go back to the ashram
and do it all over again next month

1987

someone i went to kindergarten with tagged me in this picture on facebook a few days ago
i didn't remember him, but silly little fragments about some of the others came floating back
the memory of a child is a strange thing
stranger still how different people record different memories about the same thing
didn't milan kundera write a book about this?
it sounds like something he'd write a book about.

look, look

look, look, look at my blog
the template so airy!
the pictures so big!
we're officially a cell phone and dslr pictures blog, people!
expect some not-so-dinkies soon
and pssst, i've also started sneakily going back in time and editing past photo stories
 wheee...

nazar na lage

she'll still get her heart broken someday
sorry to say