This is the latest on the Kohi... Mero front: a poster! In 2010, Love will find you.Yeah. That's exactly what is going to happen. But only if you buy tickets and watch it in the theaters. That will be the biggest reason why *I* will go to watch it, day after day. I will stand outside with over-sized glasses, pretending to hide from the masses, but not really, only casually mentioning to every pretty woman in the audience that I just might be the person with his name on the poster... Yup. That is the plan.
Utsav--I was in your institution's library, waiting for Vijay Khadgi. There was time to kill, so I thought checking my mail was a good idea. NTGK was frantically reworking the questions to ask the experts, and I had an assignment to finish, although I didn't quite know how to tackle it [a commercial website's front-page... I couldn't think of a way of finishing it]. So, I thought I'd post a cheeky little message to you. So I did, calling the blog post "Blogging from ICI***"
As a joke, I wrote: I am posting from ICI*** library's "research" computer stations, misusing the resources. It took people in your office less than five minutes to hunt me down with a print-out of the posting, green high-lights over the offensive words, phrases that made the institution look bad, I guess. It was scary--either they were monitoring all traffic from the library [I had been answering some rather personal emails], or they have some way of knowing whenever ICI*** gets mentioned on the web.
"I guess, as an institution you can't afford to have a sense of humor," I said to the person who'd accosted me with the printout. He was huffing in anger, as if the sky had come crashing down on his head. There was a long "hehehehehe" after the sentence that mentioned "misuse," but nobody was hehehe'ing with me, it seems.
So I had to deleted the post. I am surprised you got an alert about the post and the authorities didn't rain down upon you with all of their wrath.
It is a nice place, ICI***, but a tad too sensitive, it seems. Very helpful people, of course. But, surely, they aren't infallible in what they do. I wonder how well they take criticism of the scholarship they produce, if they can't let a chappal-padkaoing freelance writer hehehehe from their library computers.
So you be careful, too, Maden! You are deep in the draconian lair!
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hello prawin dai,
ReplyDeletei see that you are doing good. you are more occupied now writing scripts and all.
when you were at whitman, i tried to contact you via your email mentioned at the whitman site. i did not receive any response however.
i wanted to talk you about creative writing. i am very serious about it and i want to pursue my further studies in that area. but the major hurdle i think is that since im studying (something else) here in nepal, i think i am losing the clarity in my writings. my english has degraded a lot but i still write poems.
i have always admired your writings (since those bnks days) and i have to say that your achievements then inspired me.
i could not find any other means to contact you except this blog. so here i am. and i hope to receive your response.
sanjay.
Sanjay,
ReplyDeletewrite to me at prawinadhikari@gmail.com
Most of us use "Google alerts" to alert us when a particular topic is indexed by Google's search spider. "ICI**" is just one of them.
ReplyDeleteThe person who did come across you, might have just got whiff of it using that very service.
Google does a very good job at indexing its products, Blogger being one of them! :D
The enterprise firewall checks for malware and porn; getting into everyone's personal emails (library visitors and employees alike might not be worth the effort!)