Vicissitudinous pleasures of a Shimla sanatorium
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DEEPAK NEGI, the son of a hospital employee, gives a solo guitar recital (consisting to all appearance exclusively of improvisations) for Virraj Sorhvi, at the employees' private quarters. The gig comes on the heels of a vicious hailstorm that pounded Shimla just a few days before, helping to...
It's a Dog's Life
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In point of fact, the dog seems to take a dog's life pretty much in stride; why can't a man? ♦ Virraj has been hospitalized continuously since 4 July 2005; he has been convalescing at the Simla Sanitarium and Hospital since 28 May 2008. For the latest info, visit...
Latte Art — an essay in cross-cultural studies
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Virraj Sorhvi diversifies into lattes (as a way of sublimating his cappuccinos), even while considering the merits and demerits of Gayatri Spivak's English translation of Jacques Derrida's DE LA GRAMMATOLOGIE — thereby deconstructing (in his heart) an Indian woman's contribution to Western...
Shimla Serenade
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Tags: adamo amor amore amour coucher de del do du friendship himachal himalaya himalayas india love mountains patient por pradesh puesta quiero salvatore sanatorium shimla sol soleil sorhvi sunset tramonto virraj ήλιου αγάπη δύση ηλιοβασίλεμα ιμαλάια του заход солнца افتاب افول حب عشق غروب शिमला सांझ सूर्यास्त الغروب 傍晚 喜马拉雅山 夕日 夕焼け 愛 日暮れ 日没 晩照 일몰
A video without a description, and perhaps (if you allow) beyond one... ♦ Virraj has been hospitalized continuously since 4 July 2005; he has been convalescing (with active osteomyelitis or bone infection) at the Simla Sanitarium and Hospital since 28 May 2008. For the latest info, visit...
VIRRAJ COLLAPSES IN HOSPITAL — several times over (recorded secretly!)
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VIRRAJ SORHVI CAUGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERA COLLAPSING IN THE HOSPITAL — not from the staphylococcal bone infection he is afflicted with but from the badness of his necktie! Preparing for a new music video shoot, Virraj, all alone in the bathroom, tries on a new tie "for size", only to decide...
Cappuccino art — and how I reach it (from hospital bed!)
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A THERAPY FOR THE WORLD'S FINANCIAL WOES: be sensible, stay in touch with yourself as well as external reality (balancing the two judiciously in the interests of the greater Good!), and then have a decent Lavazza cappuccino, your ultimate silver bullet... Virraj Sorhvi on the move — from his...
Sunset over Himalayas
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Sunset over the Himalayas — as ravishingly beautiful as could be expected — captured by Virraj Sorhvi from his eagle's aerie on a slope in the Lesser Himalayas. ♦ Virraj has been hospitalized continuously since 4 July 2005; he has been convalescing (with active osteomyelitis or bone...
Sanatorium under the sign of the Hourglass
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Virraj Sorhvi's sanatorium in Shimla (in the Indian state of the Himāchal Pradesh, an area known to the outside world as the Lesser Himalayas) — an institution in which Virraj has now spent three months — evokes in some crucial respects Bruno Schulz's vision of a similar establishment...
Elegy for a Cockroach — and another exposé
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COCKROACH AS PATIENT OR PATIENT AS COCKROACH? ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING FATE of a cockroach — one of the nameless millions with which New Delhi's Apollo Hospital is teeming but precious none the less — abandoned by the medical staff, uncared for by the physicians, spurned by everybody and abused,...
Northern Lights as seen from the Himalayas (31° latitude) — Part I
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THE NORTHERN LIGHTS, also known as the aurora borealis, are often thought to be restricted (in their full splendour at least) to the so-called auroral zone, which includes Scandinavia and the coast of Siberia, although the phenomenon has been witnessed in the United States, according to the...
A game of cricket in the Himalayas
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WHETHER YOU CONSIDER IT ORGANIZED LOAFING OR BASEBALL ON VALIUM, or indeed something else altogether, watch a snippet of a game of cricket — as it is played by some very young patients "down below" on the lower level of Virraj Sorhvi's sanatorium in Shimla (in the Indian state of the Himāchal...
Protest march by schoolchildren in Shimla (Indian Himalayas)
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YOUTH ON THE MARCH: political activism begins early in a person's life in India, the world's most populous democracy. Apparently. Here a whole posse of what look like pre-pubertal schoolchildren have filed out on to the street in order to stage a protest march. The marchers shout slogans...
Virraj comes back from the bathroom (close and SOME CIGAR, yes)
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RETURNING FROM THE BATHROOM REFRESHED AND IN A BETTER MOOD, Virraj Sorhvi begins to goof about at his sickbed on a higher scale, by offering a performance connected, in some tenuous way, with the previous stages of his hospitalization and the characters that populated those stages: you'll see a...
Virraj goes to the bathroom (close but NO CIGAR)
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CAN'T I HAVE SOME PRIVACY HERE, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE?! Virraj Sorhvi briefly leaves his sickbed at the Mullana Hospital, in the Indian state of Haryana, to go to the bathroom to powder his nose, or whatever it is you do at a hospital bathroom (dance the pop-goes-the-weasel perchance?)... The...
The making of the "Cuban Cigar" video (Part I)
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COME IN HERE, DEAR BOY, HAVE A CIGAR. YOU'RE GONNA GO FAR, YOU'RE GONNA FLY HIGH, YOU'RE NEVER GONNA DIE, YOU'RE GONNA MAKE IT, IF YOU TRY; THEY'RE GONNA LOVE YOU... (Thank you, Roger Waters, for the encouragement!) In the present clip Virraj Sorhvi gets ready for the filming of his "Cuban...
Virraj debuts as a film-maker by capturing life red-handed over a cappuccino
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Virraj Sorhvi takes matters — and the camera — into his OWN hands and, working from his wheelchair parked near a cup of cappuccino at Shimla's Barista café, points the lens first at the crowd scene on The Mall, the main drag right outside the window, with its show of would-be trendy...
The making of the Marlene Dietrich video
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In his musical tribute to Marlene Dietrich, which you have seen on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKhieCZQ0jQ , Virraj Sorhvi presented you with his own rendition of the song "Where have All the Flowers Gone?", which had accompanied him during the 25,000 hours spent at sickbed. Here Virraj...
Medical cure by baccarat: a hospital vignette
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IN DEFAULT OF MEDICAL TREATMENT, THE APOLLO HOSPITAL RECOMMENDS A CARD GAME — A BID FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, PERCHANCE, OR HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION THERAPY?... Since Virraj Sorhvi received virtually no treatment for his chronic MRSA-caused tibial osteomyelitis during the 7 months and 11 days he...
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