Volver in Spanish means to return back like that Pedro Almodóvar film. I am returning to this blog after seven years! I did not intent on such a long break. I did not intend on a break at all! But here we are in a post pandemic world with reduced attention spans, scrolling temptations, some grey in our hair, and some rust on our soul.
My life has changed and not changed at the same time. My work has completely changed. I work in publishing now. It’s fun sometimes and not fun sometimes. Just like life.
My passions have remained more or less the same. I’m still reading and taking photographs only on my mobile. (I will return to film one day.) One major change has been that I’ve gone and done a few courses on film appreciation, one introductory one from FTII, Pune and three from the Auroville Film Institute on Ritwik Ghatak, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and now Pedro Almodóvar. A whole new world opened up to me. Now, I would like to explore this more. Let’s see where this takes me.
I’m also currently hugely involved with the #BookTwitter group on Twitter where we are reading Orhan Pamuk’s Snow and Jorge Luis Borges’s Collected Fictions at the moment.
So, what have you been up to? Let me know. Let’s return back to each other.