03/02/2021 (things i learned)

• carnatic instruments - venu, nadaswaram, thavil, mridangam

• THERE'S A MOVIE ABOUT HINDUSTANI MUSIC (The Disciple 2020)

• exif data in gimp

• astrolabe

• bios whitelists

• fairphone makes awesome (wholly responsible) videos

• stupid RPi is so problematic.. dont know why it's not connecting to

my router...

• #IndiaAgainstPropaganda is SO IRONIC

• Watched The Disciple (2020). Absolutely entrancing and powerful.

Sharad Nerulkar couldn't bear to accept the truth. They revealed it

near the end that he learned it since he was young from the american

collector dude but tucked it away deep throughout his life and left

him in that state for the rest of his life. I feel the backdrop of the

transition to modernity served perfectly as a _ not because it enhances

his flaws and weaknesses but precisely because it is THE reason for

the breaking down of the entire culture.

I see it this way, the movie succeeds most in a capturing-a-strong-

personal-emotion sense by following the path of Nerulkar's life to

mediocrity. However, it is about so much more than that; I myself

went in expecting a Whiplash style strive for legendary status but am

left with the raw reality of the british colonisation of india: new forces

much more powerful than any individual's most intense desire and even

thousands of years of cultural development.