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The diary goes dear
Updated On: 14 January, 2012 09:52 AM IST | | Anjana Vaswani
Smart phones and digital organisers may have rendered the diary obsolete, but a new one encourages you to return to the presumed innocence of youth, courtesy its staged photographs of children, personal notes, reminders and social messages. Its creators also hope that you will be encouraged to 'scratch your head'
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Smart phones and digital organisers may have rendered the diary obsolete, but a new one encourages you to return to the presumed innocence of youth, courtesy its staged photographs of children, personal notes, reminders and social messages. Its creators also hope that you will be encouraged to 'scratch your head'
Technology is a blessing, but if even the beeping of your microwave is music to your ears, can anything touch your soul the way the late Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh's nostalgia-laced composition, Woh Kagaz Ki Kashti, did?
It's perhaps only fitting therefore that a 'kagaz ki kashti,' actually finds reference in advertising professional Uday Parkar's Multiply Diary, where the central theme is, "The innocence of youth."
Blackboard: This picture marks a space intended for notes and scribbles,
but it's also a sarcastic reference to the paucity of educational institutions
and the dire need to promote literacy.
The black and white picture of a giant paper boat being pulled out to sea by six shirtless boys is particularly close to Parkar's heart. "That was clicked in my hometown of Achra on the Konkan coast."
Technology is a blessing, but if even the beeping of your microwave is music to your ears, can anything touch your soul the way the late Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh's nostalgia-laced composition, Woh Kagaz Ki Kashti, did?
It's perhaps only fitting therefore that a 'kagaz ki kashti,' actually finds reference in advertising professional Uday Parkar's Multiply Diary, where the central theme is, "The innocence of youth."
Blackboard: This picture marks a space intended for notes and scribbles,
but it's also a sarcastic reference to the paucity of educational institutions
and the dire need to promote literacy.
The black and white picture of a giant paper boat being pulled out to sea by six shirtless boys is particularly close to Parkar's heart. "That was clicked in my hometown of Achra on the Konkan coast."
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