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Paris Cafe: The Select Crowd, by Noel Riley Fitch
The artist Rick Tulka
Le Select
{Drawings used from the book p/35 and p/67}


Title credits

I am about to reveal a hitherto unseen side of my personality with this post. You know what they say to new travelers on Indian Railways? You can talk of cricket and Bollywood, but never venture into politics, religion and caste. So it is with inktales. I talk of poetry and personal eccentricities, but never about design or technology. Most of my friends and family don’t know what a techie I really am underneath this ditsy exterior.
The point of this fascinating revelation is to show you some drawings I did with Skitch on my phone using my index finger. Yes, that finger is very important. Most touch apps for drawing don’t have very good precision. And what’s more, I drew these while traveling on the Delhi Metro on my way home from work and then Skitch saved them seamlessly on the cloud through Evernote. (And that’s one more reason why Evernote is one of my favorite apps.)




Update: If you used Chrome to arrive here through the Facebook link you’ll probably see an ad below. Chrome or some other unauthorized party has hacked into my account and placed the ad without my knowledge. Until I get this fixed please bear with me. inktales will always remain ad-free.

This year I’ve decided to learn a few new skills. This is one of them.

Yesterday I went to the local Evernote DevCup Meetup. Unlike other dev events, at this one Karan Singh entertained us with his amazing psychological illusions. Except for one glitch called Prashant Singh.

Some sketches from our weekend trip to Kesroli. We stayed in a real 14th century fort that is now a hotel.

(The brown boy is reading The Beekeeper’s Apprentice.)

This is the view around the fort, which was on a hill in the middle of a valley surrounded by other hills. Just like Mordor.
I’m reading This is not the end of the book.

This post was updated and republished.
The book’s tour




This is a comic I made recently, inspired by a friend’s comment. If you have trouble reading the speech bubbles, click twice; or right click and choose “View Image”, and then you can click on the image again to view a larger size.

Thanks to the brown boy for invaluable editorial help.

I love making lists. That does not mean that I end up doing all the things on those lists, but what does it matter?

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