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At the End of a Long Drive


Shreesh and Neena Taskar

We didn't make the decision, the decision made us. On October 20th, 2007, we left our comfortable city of San Francisco to follow a simple algorithm - go North till the road ends then turn around and then go as far South. In between those two points was the stage, the timeline, the space, where we made things happen and things happened to us.

The past is fleeting and the stories, the sights and the feelings are perishable. One sees what one wants to see, and perhaps we are not capable of more. We saw that people are kind and helpful even if they were not materially rich. Some we could understand even though we didn't speak the same language, the motivations of others were incomprehensible even though we did. In the end fragments remain - the smell of roasting chocolate, a flock of snow Ptarmigians on snow, the creaking of the rainforest, the rough feathers of penguins, and the intoxication of Curanto.


So these are our stories. Every time you visit the site you will see a random post below. Each starts with Lo que pasa es que...

Burning Man 2007

Jun 10th, 2007 by

The Man

The Man

Burning Man – Festival in the desert

Burning Man will be the springboard for our big trip. It is staged every year on Labor Day weekend. Started on a beach in San Francisco, it found its current home in the Nevada desert. The authorities didn’t appreciate people burning an effigy on a public beach.

What is Burning Man? It is what you wish it to be. Superficially, it is a huge community of people gathered to watch a big effigy of The Man burn. But unlike the Indian festival of Dussehra where effigies of the kings Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Meghanath are burned, there are no stories that symbolize anything. It is an experiment in social structure. It is a huge gathering of people (tens of thousands) in a communal effort to create art. A large congregation of digiratti, artists and people like you and me from all over.

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One Response to “Burning Man 2007”

  1. Pramod Taskar says:
    June 23, 2007 at 7:45 am

    It should be aptly called “Burning human”.
    When burning man is burnt, science seem to make him live by dressing him up. A scientific progress.

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