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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 14/08/2016

Lilt and lyricism. Brigitte Menon. French Sitarist. Raga Bageshri. Jor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFRUZxNGEdE

D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A chill morning, the wind picking up ahead of the unexpected Nor'easter churning up the coast. The lindens are shedding their leaves; they whirl about the sidewalk for the doggess to chase. Autumn is here; the moon will soon be full. How quickly a year passes, and old presences turn to new absences.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Up until recently I wasn't impressed by Piet Mondrian's early pictures, but now I think they're spectacular, as well as a key staging post on the way to his more famous abstracts. I need to go back to Den Haag's Gemeentemuseum.

Evening: Red Tree (1908) a red tree against a blue background. Touches of Impressionism and Pointillism, but entirely its own thing, in which the effects of light and colour are favoured over realism.

View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers (1909): a sort of flat effect in pastel shades of blue, beige and green, very light and airy. It feels like a beach - and it is! You can almost feel the sea breeze.

Woods near Oele (1908): spindly, dark purple trees lit from behind by low but bright sunlight; swirls of colour and shadow. Kind of midway between Impressionism and Expressionism, but again, very much its own thing.

Study for Blue Apple Tree series (1908); painted sketch of a dark green tree with a spreading umbrella of branches against roughly applied dashes of blue and turquoise.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Daughter the Elder has adopted a cat named Cléo from a shelter near her university. After the Durrell character? No, that's Clea; the Agnès Varda one.

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 12/09/2026

Joby Warrick’s sweeping and engaging biography of Carlos the Jackal is as much a history of the man as it is of the 1970s-80s era of international terrorism. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/10/c...

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The ‘Super-Terrorist’ We Still Can’t Escape

Carlos the Jackal left behind a violent, celebrity-obsessed world.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's amazing the extent the train and the turnpike completely changed our sense of geography and what is close; to the extent this now seems absurd

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What is an appropriate confection to throw at puffed-up politicians in India? It has to be kept sanskari, so no pie-custard business. In keeping with the national ethos, ahimsa is paramount. Idlis can be dense, dosas are aerodynamically unstable, but would puttu be an option? Gajar ka Halwa? Dhokla!

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The last days of summer. A long weekend—precious still for an aging sarariman. The book is read, the glass is empty, the doggess fed. Shrieks and cries in the unseen distance, beyond the darkening trees. Children at joy. How ductile was time at their age. Now the years are brittle and summers scant.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The man is still going strong. I learn that his real name is Titus Enashu and that he recently retired from the Kerala State Excise Dept. in the rank of Dy. Superintendent of Police. Oblivious to the crowd he is drunk only by the rhythm of the melam and, perhaps, just a bit possessed by them Djinns.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The moon is bright tonight. A lone deer silhouetted under the deodar in the yard. We regard each other silently, but I have letters to post.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Floated, once again. The early listen lingering into late morning; hands tracing the contours of the raga while receiving Siu Mai, to the bemusement, perhaps, of the lady behind the counter at the local Asian store. And, again, my gait decidedly in Jhaptaal, searching the aisles for Sapporo Ichiban.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

L'Odissea. 1968. In Italian. Directed by Franco Rossi. All eight episodes, remastered. With Irene Papas as Penelope and Barbara Bach as Nausicaa—entirely missing from the Nolanic Nugatorium. Bekim Fehmiu, the Albanian Dharmendra, plays Odysseus. There's even Achilles! www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7-z...

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Telemachus and Penelope| The Odyssey episode 1/8| HD Digital Restoration| Multi Subs

YouTube video by GreeceOurHeritage

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Watched Nolan's Odyssey last night. No wish to flog a dead horse but it was all very wooden, especially the famous actors. Yes, it was well past midnight, but serial yawns were induced despite the obstreperous soundtrack. By Zeus, I could have bought some fine fountain pen inks for the money I paid!

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 20/06/2015

Riveting Nirguni Bhajan. Kabir. Composition: Kumar Gandharva. Singer: Kalapini Komkali, Kumar Gandharva's daughter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vX1f1Qgo64

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A jugalbandi I didn't even know existed! Raga Marwa. Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, sarod and Ustad Vilayat Khan, sitar. Avtar Singh, tabla. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8qA...

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Raga Marwa: Alāp, Jod, Jhālā: Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Ustad Vilayat Khan

YouTube video by The ICM Music Channel

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It had been raining all day—most monsoonal, really—so on our nightly outing the doggess took her own time sniffing up on social media. I tug impatiently at the leash. But overhead, a Delphic injunction. In a sky finally swept clear, two moonlit contrails have crossed into a perfect X: cease, desist.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Currently going through a phase of Stationery Obsession Disorder (mostly cheap fountain pens), so this image got me wondering which brand of cahier Ondaatje favoured. My search offered no clinching proof but the best bet is Pierre Belvédère Inc. of Montreal. Any notebook enthusiasts who can confirm?

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What a spell he weaves. All the wounds of Spring. Ustad Amir Khan. Raga Basant Mukhari. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsHr...

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Ustad Amir Khan Raga Basant Mukhari

YouTube video by rliesky56

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Shatranj ké Khilādi. Reign of Caliph Zohrān al-Mamdāni. New York City.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Afternoon. Bryant Park. Manhattan.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Books arrive by mail, wrapped tidily in brown paper. Sitwell, Partridge, de Quincey. The Dak runner doing double duty to satisfy my futile tsundoku. But the brown paper! Late May shopping at Anand Bazaar for a roll; then on the floor with scissors, the school books smelling of starch, binders' glue.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Experiment du jour: a plain two-egg omelette but cooked in browned butter spiked with asafoetida. The je ne sais quoi is of a variety most intriguing.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

She passed away yesterday. Her legacy will live on.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Lotus Land. Cyril Scott, composer. Nino Gvetadze, piano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w6r...

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Nino Gvetadze - Lotus Land (live)

YouTube video by vrije geluiden

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Early Braque. Marina, L'Estaque. 1906. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. Madrid.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Early Kandinsky. Murnau, Houses on the Obermarkt. 1908. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Natalia Goncharova. Fishers. 1909. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Picasso warming up. Street mural, Madrid.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Guernica. Pablo Picasso. 1937. Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. The painting, 3.5m x 7.8m, occupies an entire wall; unadorned to respect the grim grisaille of the subject. Even the room's flooring is in shades of grey. Troops of children came and went, shepherded by earnest teachers, reduced to silence.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Horse country. Views from a passing train. Navalperal de Pinares.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Courtyard of the Museo de Santa Cruz, which was established as a hospital in the 16th century. Olives and bitter oranges, pigeons and redstarts. Toledo.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Veronica with the Holy Face. El Greco, 1578. Museo de Santa Cruz, Toledo.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Astonishing to peer at a Van Gogh from up close; the utter freshness of colour, the quality of impasto that invites forbidden touch, the linseed oil sheen that you can almost smell...136 years after its composition. Les Vessenots en Auvers, 1890. Vincent Van Gogh. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Three Portraits. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. (L) Domenico Ghirlandaio. 1489. Portrait of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni. (C) Rafael. 1518. Portrait of a young man. (R) Andrew Wyeth. 1970. My Young Friend.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Two paintings by Alfonso Ponce de León. Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. Rest, 1930 (L). Self-Portrait, 1936 (R). He was executed by firing squad a few months after he painted the latter, during the Spanish Civil War.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Christ of St. John of the Cross. Salvador Dali. 1973. Posthumous casting. Museo Salvador Dali, Madrid.

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D. Panikkar @dpanikkar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Salvador Dali. Cubist Self-portrait. 1923. Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.

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