Thursday, November 21, 2024

Wonderful Indian speculative fiction--"And the pret jumped down my throat."

http://www.anathemamag.com/never-yawn-under-a-banyan-tree
Pret are pretta or paikta which the monks exorcise with gandapa when they read the kamawar-sa.
Lovely and funny. A pret meets modern democratic India.

Partial closure--Fireworks series--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bQHrsEYo34 Realistic post-earthquake setting, great lighting,photography, tonal "Chinese" sound...