delga | { "A lopsided gift. He holds them, trying to balance the difference." }

I am watching The Last Samurai because unfortunately it is very much my thing, even if it does star Tom Cruise. Gah. He annoys me beyond belief. Another thing which continues to annoy me: the need for Hollywood to take foreign concepts and traditions and supplant them with white, Western heroes. This is not your subjective landscape and it has no need to be. There's a reason your audience would have a difficult time swallowing the truth of the land without your White Hero and that's because it's not theirs to digest. The word foreign an all its connotations exists for a reason.

Uma dips her jar in the river, and lifts it high over her head. When she tilts it and pours it out, the murky water catches the blaze of the sun and flashes fire.

I just finished Fasting, Feasting. Desai's style has become easier to digest in the three-point-five years since I've read her work. I think that actually says more about me than it does her. In a typical fashion, the longing in the book extents beyond the last page, unresolved. And it's better that way. There are no easy answers.

Finished season 1 of The Wire last night but I think I'm going to save season 2 for a couple of days. Tomorrow we're going to a family barbecue in N. and on Sunday, I think an aunt is coming to tie rakhis. I have no idea whether The Mother has bought rakhis for us to send, but I'll find out soon enough, I suppose.