07-07-2008: No, I'm Not

I used to be in Kansas a long time back. I too followed in Dorothy's footsteps out of Kansas one day. This photograph sort of irked up some memories. Happy ones though :-) [via EssG@Flickr]

06-28-2008: British Nostalgia

As captured by one of my favorite bands of the moment.

04-27-2008: A Beatle Boy's Private Memories in Scotland

Paul, Stella and James, Scotland, 1982.

From the Linda McCartney collection at the James Hyman Gallery, London.

12-11-2007: Hookah Nights

A neon sign calling for hookahs (via Russell Davies in Istanbul) brought back some good memories of fun times with family and friends at the Mocha Cafe in Chennai.

12-02-2007: Tennessee Williams, William Styron and Mr Hemingway

Some literary legends remembered through a vintage magazine cover. [via Hi+Low]

05-04-2007: Memories of the Middle of Nowhere

A scene from the flat Kansas prairie land (from this New York Times article) triggers some old memories of my year spent at Pittsburg State University in Kansas at the turn of the century. We used to drive for miles on the local highways on the absolutely flat landscape and the scene was like you see a barn and maybe every couple of miles you might see some cows grazing and then another 20 miles or so another barn might pop up. The horizon was always wide and open. It was truly big sky country.

This one though is about an ongoing debate about the other common villain of the Kansas prairie land.

03-17-2007: Bridges of Memory Lane

Sometimes when you are bidding farewell to a place you have lived for a long time, a certain last image or snapshot is etched in your memory. I had lived in the United States for the last couple of years. And finally when I did move back to Asia (exactly a year back to this date), that final image that is etched in my memory is that of the spectacular Verrazano Bridge. When my brother-in-law was driving me across from New Jersey to JFK airport in Queens, we crossed this bridge and it for me eventually sums up the largess of my experience in America.

Similarly, the guy who took this spectacular photograph has a different sort of memory attached to it, as he humbly expresses here.