January 24, 2010

The Anant gallery in Dehli had a group show last month called
Living off the Grid. It was about ways to escape the many grids that circumscribe our lives.
Here are curator Meera Menezes notes on the show:
Like it or not, our lives are enmeshed in the intersecting lines of a Grid in the worlds both real and virtual.
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January 19, 2010
At the same time as the Venezuela government introduces measures to ration electricity, President Hugo Chavez accuses the US government of deliberately engineering the Haitian earthquake. But the sight of U.S. Marines on Venezuelan TV, risking their lives to save the poorest Haitians, reminds Venezuelans that those Marines could help save them.
It might set Venezuelans to questioning just why Chavez remains their president. If it does, the irony would be of U.S. Marines taking Chavez down — without even firing a shot.
Chavez told Spanish newspaper ABC that the earthquake was the product of a "tectonic weapon" launched by the U.S. Navy in a test-run for the U.S.' ultimate target: Iran.
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