We Loiter

22/07/2024

When it gets lonely at the top, fit a stereo and make the world your Plaza! 🎵🎼🎵

07/07/2024

🐕 Ambling through the monsoon-kissed pathways, campus dogs sniff seasons―each puddle a new adventure, every scent a tantalizing hint of something unseen, their tails wagging to the rhythm of the rain.

🌿Twisting and twining through a living poem, each leaf unveils the whispers of the weather, while each vine tangoes with something nearby in a close embrace.

🛵Waiting begrudgingly, vehicles loiter not by choice but by diversion’s demand. Yearning for the open road, their headlights casting longing gazes through the rain.

👣 Lingering, not in haste, but in a contemplative wait, anticipating the discovery of a new, unseen tree or a familiar scene transformed by the seasonal symphony.

16/06/2024

It's been a Monsoon Tree Party at Pune University 🌿🍃🌿
Thanks to .walks we took the path less travelled in Alice Garden, and it made all the difference!

08/05/2024

अन्य होंगे चरण हारे,
और हैं जो लौटते, दे शूल को संकल्प सारे,
दुखव्रती निर्माण उन्मद,
यह अमरता नापते पद

- पंथ रहने दो अपरिचित, महादेवी वर्मा

Those feet must be someone else's, which were defeated,
Which returned, surrendering their resolution to obstacles,
My feet are different: unafraid of sorrow, eager to create,
My feet measuring immortality
(Translation by )

- Mahadevi Verma

28/03/2024

Reading these profound lines by Mahadevi Verma and reflecting on their significance for footpaths:

"प्रिये, मैं सीमा की गोदपली
पर हूँ असीम से खेली भी!"

Relegated to the sidelines of the roadscape and cradling in the lap of limitations, the lines of these limits encapsulate the very essence of the existence of footpaths.

And yet, people ingeniously find ways to transcend these limitations (सीमा), infusing footpaths with limitless (असीम) activities, games, emotions, movements, conversations, and colors.

27/02/2024

कहाँ तो तय था चिराग़ाँ हरेक घर के लिए,

कहाँ चिराग़ मयस्सर नहीं शहर के लिए।

Oh how it was promised, a lamp for every home
Oh what we have come to, no lamp for the entire city.

- Ghazal by Dushyant Kumar

07/03/2023

A growing number of citizens are dedicating themselves to documenting street views of private residences across cities and neighbourhoods.

21/09/2021

An important discussion on the World Car-free Day

[WEBINAR] September 22, 4 PM

This WORLD CAR-FREE DAY, we invite you to join us in reimagining the cities around people. We are joined by an eminent panel of experts to explore the role of bus-based public transport (BBPT) in planning car-free cities.

If cities are planned in a way that they can develop by bus, why not give the car a rest, and the bus a go?

Our first webinar in a series where we highlight and explore the link between Urban Development and BBPT.

Join us tomorrow at 4 pm via Zoom - https://bit.ly/DevelopmentByBus

The webinar will also be live streamed on our page. So, stay tuned!

26/07/2021

Artists in Maharashtra, do consider applying to this contest. Get a chance to win cash prizes worth Rs. 5,000 and a chance for your work to be presented to the Maharashtra Environment Minister, Sh. Aaditya Thackeray.

CREATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Contest Alert 📣

Deadline EXTENDED to August 03, 2021]

Call to all artists in to Create for the Environment! Share artwork, photographs or videos which highlight the role of city buses or urban bus-based public transport in protecting the environment.

Parisar will feature every single artwork which CLEARLY shows the connection between city buses and environment, on its social media platforms or website.

Get a chance to win cash prizes worth Rs. 5,000. The best entries across all categories shall be shown to and shared with Hon'ble Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Aaditya Thackeray, over a webinar or during a meeting.

Read the contest guidelines here to register and participate: https://www.sumnet.in/create-for-environment-contest-guidelines/

YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS!

26/05/2021

"To write about any city in the 21st century was perhaps to write not about place, but about its erasure by the incessant encroachment of corporate power...
Life online elided place too, in the standardization and gloss of screens. I spent much of my time in a shifting digital elsewhere. ..
The novel was becoming indisputably American, and I heard the open road in its sentences. There were cheap motels and wet heat and false promises, dilapidated buildings, dry fields, efforts at grace, lies and stars.

All this, while I faced the wall."

-Isobel Wohl

I have written in bars, in parks, in theaters between acts of plays, on night buses and in subway cars, in rooms that have been mine and in the bed where I sleep now, in hotels, in other people’s h…

17/11/2020

Vasu was off to a great start today. She was ready for office, well in advance to relish a steaming cup of chai and eat two parathas at an appreciate-each-morsel pace. On most days, breakfast was a…