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19Feb
54 comments on “Thus Spake My Father”

Thus Spake My Father

Posted by umashankaron February 19, 2017July 27, 2026in Such is Life54 Comments

As I look back at the life of my departed father, I realise how he had been a part of the transitional era that stood with a foot in the mysteries of the yore and the other into the increasingly…

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03Nov
50 comments on “Fungus on the Filter”

Fungus on the Filter

Posted by umashankaron November 3, 2013July 30, 2026in Photography, Such is Life50 Comments

The opposite of time is memory: a span with no beginning, no end, no intervals, only nebulous swaths of consciousness. Memories don't tumble terminally like the sand in an hourglass, nor do they tick away with the finality of the…

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