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2009-2015 – GENEVA DIARIES

My letters to Roger – An American in Paris – Friend, Philosopher, Teacher, Guide, someone who grabbed my wrist as I stood teetering over the abyss in Geneva and whisked me off to his favorite stage to play The Black Swan inspiring me to perform the perfect pirouette.

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All persons, places, events are fictitious; all imputed relationships purely aspirational. There were no men harmed during the penning of the Feminist Manifesto

Letter #1- Roger’s Early letters-The Indus Valley CivilizationDownload

Letter #2- Musee-d’Ethnographie GeneveDownload

9/10/09

Letter #3 – Servetus, Black Swan, Ashland, (In)ToleranceDownload

Letter#4- Randomness and The Black Swan – ServetusDownload

Letter #5-Indiana Jones, Inspector Clouseau, Nadir Shah, Tavernier- The eternal quest for the KohinoorDownload

Letter #6- Black Pearl Jack Sparrow – Movies Magritte – Case For Polanski Yet another collage/ Pour moi et pour toi!Download

Letter #7- Geneva-Polanski-Privacy-Pirates Manifesto-Rahu KetuDownload

Letter #8 Brussels, Tintin, France, US, Sex, Kamasutra, Khajuraho, Tale of Genji, Catalan-CutieDownload

Letter #10-Tagore -17 Years, Alice-in-Wonderland, Art, Maths, Millennium, Wanted Dead or Alive!Download

Purnima Traversing The Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia

Letter#11- All The Sons of Geneva – An Emigrants Tale – Pirates – Donner PassDownload

Letter #12-Big Macs – Geneva – Met Maya’s Dream – Tocqueville US Penitentiary System and Minors Kids Apps – Dire StraitsDownload

Letter #12A-Tocqueville – Who We Be- Anarkali – BirbalDownload

Letter #13-Goa and the Rickshaw driver Madhubala in Manhattan The Crane and The Magical LakeDownload

Letter #14-Spiritual Journeys Adventures in Switzerland Vamana Jatayu TirupatiDownload

Letter#15-Hafiz and RosnardDownload

Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin – Je t’aime… moi non plus/Original videoclip (Fontana 1969)

Letter #16 – Wanted Dead or AliveDownload

Letter #17 – Blind men and The Elephant – Grislidis Real Geneva – Strasbourg – Cult of MithrasDownload

Letter #18-Morocco Letters I,II & IIIDownload

Letter #19-Mulling over Morocco/ Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart and Where did all the Good Guys Go? Kyoto Nuclear Arms RaceDownload

Letter #20 – The Potato EatersDownload

Letter #21-Of Beasts and Men, The Jabberwocky and Laal Kaan, Traditional Knowledge and The Tale of The Ice MommyDownload

Letter #22 Miranda, Graubunden, Tarasp, Walk Down The BrahmaputraDownload

Letter #23 War, Prejudice and Human NatureDownload

Letter #24 Strasbourg and The Cult of Mithras, The MatterhornDownload

Letter #26 Privacy, Coppet, Mdm de Stahl, Met, Princess Broglie, Lucretia and 4th ADownload

Letter #27-Language and The Presumption of Innocence, OED OnlineDownload

Letter #28-Delhi, Commonwealth Games, Birthdays, The Punjabis -Singh is Kiing, Dalrymple, Unani, KaliDownload

Letter #29- Tech Troubles, Vagabonder, Marche des HuguenotsDownload

Letter #30- Art, Sex, Censorship – l’Origine-du-MondeDownload

Letter #31- In the Belly Of The Beast, UN, ModiglianiDownload

Letter #32- Dinner Gods and Demons, Paris, Property, CyberlawDownload

Letter #33- Language – Hindi/Urdu, I Kissed a Girl, Laws in The Real and CyberworldDownload

Letter #34-Tiger-The Soldier, Oscar Wilde, India, Mythology, Greek, EvangelineDownload

Letter #35 – Gruyere and Le Magicien D’Oz Ethic Identity Ideologies Universities as Cyber Nation StatesDownload

Letter #36- Kerala v Swiss Women Equality, Geneva Auto Show, Chamonix, Libya Blitz, VagabondDownload

Letter #37 – Vagabond, Lights Out in Wonderland, Brothers Visit, Right To Be Forgotten, Schonberger, Rhine Falls, Schaffhausen, Zurich, WWFDownload

Letter #38 – A Magical Week in Wonderland – With Family in GenevaDownload

Letter #39-Women, France, Geneva, Bangla, Family in Geneva, GruyereDownload

Letter #40 – Lights Out In Wonderland, Le Divorce, CasabiancaDownload

Letter #41-Geneva Pics, Mother and Child, Women, Milan, AssangeDownload

Audio-The Best Seat in Milan:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d12brhmsme9095t/%2341-audio%20-%20The%20Best%20seat%20in%20Milan.m4a?dl=0

Letter #45: https://purrnima.blog/geneva-diaries-45/

Alice In Tourette, The Wax Palace, Bali Hi, Provence, Red Rackhams Treasure, The Supreme Court of The Cyberworld

Letter #46: https://purrnima.blog/geneva-diaries-46/

Shantaram, Bangalore, Birthdays, Seizure, Prise, Qabza and the 4th

Letter #47: https://purrnima.blog/geneva-diaries-47/

I Express Therefore I Am – Cave Art – Universal Human Rights

Letter #48: https://purrnima.blog/geneva-diaries-48/

The Doors, Carnatic Music and Tamil Culture, Liechtenstein

Letter #49: https://purrnima.blog/geneva-diaries-49/

Letter #50: https://purrnima.blog/geneva-diaries-50/

Conception of The Buddha, Allegiance, Identity, Evangeline in Real and Cyberworld

Letter #51: https://purrnima.blog/geneva-diaries-51/

India & French elections, Marriage, Law, Culture, Monsanto and Technology

Letter #52: https://purrnima.blog/geneva-diaries-52/

Lingua Franca, Persia, Houris and The Immigrants Tale

Letter #53: https://purrnima.blog/geneva-diaries-53/

Letter #54: https://purrnima.blog/geneva-diaries-54/

Mei Guo- Health Care, Singapore Art Museum and Purr-Gate-(s)Tory

Letter #55: https://purrnima.blog/geneva-diaries-55/

Chats/Feelings-Ashwatthama

Letter #56: https://purrnima.blog/geneva-diaries-56/

Vernacular Bible – Language for the People, Dussehra Ramayana, Emojis – Multimedia, Le Loi Pour Les Nuls 

What Did The Cat Say?

Who Me?

Yes You!

Couldn’t Be.

Then Who? Whodunnit?

PURRNIMA…OF COURSE!