Osama in New York
While the whole world looks for Osama bin Laden, I found him here in New York, somewhere on Broadway, in the general direction of Soho, tagged as the 'Best of New York'
I got back a few days ago from Kabul, from five intense days of leading a workshop on image making and the city organized by the Goethe Institute in Kabul. Kabul felt strangely familiar, like a North Indian small town grafted on to a desolately beautiful landscape. Looking up, I could see mountains, looking ahead, I would see barbed wire, looking around, I would see security guards armed with AK 47s.
Yet the city (and the people) had a strange gentleness, which I am still trying to think through in my head.