Blogs about: Departure Lounge

Priscilla Departs for USA4 comments

Heather Blakey wrote 9 months ago:   Snuggled safely within a pretty green and black cushion cover, Priscilla is leaving for Knot … more »

No pain - no gain!

burtybee wrote 4 weeks ago: So things are starting to take shape with the plans for our impending departure, we have our backpac … more »

Welcome, Kia Ora and Konnichiwa

burtybee wrote 1 month ago: Welcome to my blog. Over the next few weeks and months, I hope to update the site with news of our i … more »

the flock of bridges is bleating this morning

coromandal wrote 2 months ago: (apollinaire, various iterations | gare saint-lazare | sante) Luc Sante is the Belgian American wr … more »

Tags: Childhood, immigrant, apollinaire, Luc Sante, Belgium, Modernity, French, English, Paris

keeping it regular with the knickered and provincial

coromandal wrote 3 months ago: M. Fuentes again.  I can’t figure out where the prevailing cultural myth of innovation came … more »

Tags: Brave New World, Foreigner, Outsider, america, School, Carlos Fuentes, Cruelty, Nazi, provincialism

half century merry-go-round

coromandal wrote 3 months ago:     This is nomadic, but in the city instead of the desert, and presumeably with more red t … more »

Tags: Bombay, city, Home, Law, Migrants, mumbai, Nomad, Property, Rent

missing bombay3 comments

coromandal wrote 4 months ago:   “When I moved to New York, I missed Bombay like an organ of my body. I thought that when I … more »

Tags: Bombay, Immigration, mumbai, racism, School

victoria terminus

coromandal wrote 4 months ago: … more »

Tags: Bombay, mumbai, Photography, victoria terminus, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Sebastiao Salgado, Platform, Commuters

rooted in ideas

coromandal wrote 4 months ago:   (sculptures by Anthony Gormley) This goes a million miles deep toward explaining what it means … more »

Tags: immigrant, Ideas!, Memory, expatriate

the emptiness of one's luggage

coromandal wrote 4 months ago:   The reason people don’t like immigrants is that they seem to have done the impossible – defie … more »

Tags: Belonging, England, immigrant, India, Pakistan, roots, secession

airboom

coromandal wrote 5 months ago: … more »

congenital displacement: Naipaul

coromandal wrote 5 months ago: Naipaul is a foreigner at birth, every arrival is enigmatic, and crushingly, an outsider in both his … more »

Tags: Enigma, estrangement, Exile, Foreigner, Home


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