March/94

Wall graffiti "We are the Grate City zens of India".

Decembre 16 1994

Hotel Imperial, Janpath, New Delhi. A reading by Rober Racine from his novel "Le Mal de Vienne" accompanied by visual artist Sushil Kumar on a decrepit piano. Recorded on Dolby off.

Diu, December 25, 1994

Swimming in the Arabian sea. A haze hangs on the horizon and the sunset is lost. A mad woman wanders the cliffs. Spiral shells. My paternal grandfathers village. Tape 3 side B . Listening to the village washing near Lothal. recording interrupted by Akash on the car horn.

Bombay, Dec 31, 1994

Recording of crowd from balcony of room 404 at Taj hotel at Appolo Bunder. The noise was astounding. It seemed more compacted than Time Square. Sections of the crowd would run forward screaming. The ships and boats at the waterfront hooted intermittently.

Varanasi, Jan 4/5 1995

Stayed in room 404 again. Recordings of boat trip down the Ganges. Dolby always off. Cham cham, dhab dhab dhab, the red dye runs into the river as the women washes her sari. Three feet away a group of women are carrying out their morning ablutions. A dead cow is being pulled by a small boat to the middle of the river to be drowned. The sound of the oars against the water are obviously amplified.

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