The past week for me has been fantastic. Was covering the fashion week in Mumbai.
Also, launched a fashion blog.
Heading for Delhi tomorrow for the fashion week in Delhi.
So more sleepless nights, fashion fever, wardrobe malfunctions and more. The best thing about the whole experience was learning about the business of fashion.
Why models need to be like skinny lil’ things. How wardrobe functions are bad for a designer’s career, etc etc etc
On the personal front, woke up with feeling like as if I had been run over by a tractor after one week of thankless reporting. Thank goodness for my bai (the househelp) who’s a part-time masseuse and also teaches yoga, in her spare time.
Also, do watch the Sammy if you get a chance. This play directed by Lilette Dubey traces Gandhiji’s journey from South Africa to India. In those days white South Africans reffered to the Indians as Sammys. That’s cause all the Indians were mostly from south India and their surnames ended with the word Swamy — Ramaswamy, etc etc. Swamy was unpronouncable, so it became Sammy.
Gandhi was honoured to be called Sammy — because Swamy means master or teacher. Eventually many South Africans and even those in positions of power who wanted to impose laws that discriminated against Indians, came to respect Gandhi because his ideas, words and actions had the power to changed the very fabric of one’s thought processes.
There’s nothing preachy about the play. It has dialogues which are simple, funny and profound simultaneously. Quite a few times I had tears in my eyes.
I went up to Lillete Dubey post the play, and thanked her from bringing it to life, so the young generation can use the same principles to find truth within themselves.
Explain again what the Sammy is please. Is it a play, movie, or awards show?
Oops! Sammy is a play directed by a Lilette Dubey, a director and actress based in Mumbai. The cast includes Joy Sengupta, Lola Kutty alias Anjali Menon who plays Sarojini Naidu etc etc