i learnt about Suresh Eriyat at lunch today, as I flipped through the pages of the mid-day newspaper at my hostel looking for the sudoku page. the second page of the newspaper had two illustrations depicting the artist's interaction with Hayao Miyazaki and as a regular consumer and ABSOLUTE LOVER of studio ghibli content i stopped to read the paragraph. what i learnt from the article is that you might meet Mr. Miyazaki outside his studio if you wait enough,…

Shwe- Burmese word for Gold(en)
I remember being nine years old and running up to an old man who was sitting with a boat-like instrument in his lap. He didn't speak English very well and at the time the only Burmese phrases I knew were 'Minglabar' (Hello) and 'Nay Kaung Lar' (How are you). Many Minglabars later and with the help of my mother's Burmese friend, the uncle got to know that we were Indian and his already gentle expression…