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Bani and Sarnath welcomed us into their sprawling and spotless apartment in the Capitol section of Delhi, known as New Delhi. I had met Bani many years before when she and Sarnath were living in Chicago, and they had recently returned to India where Sarnath grew up. Their partnership had held up well to the pressures of Sarnath's Indian family and Bani's Pakistani one, and they laughed about the ironic resentments the people of these two countries harbor towards eachother despite their many similarities. Sarnath had just completed another graphic novel, the magical Barn Owl's Wondrous Caper and had also been working to promote the graphic novel form among young Indian artists while Bani continued her sculptural and graphic...READ MORE
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Yes, I have irritated people from Detroit with my excitement about their vacant structures. I'm not from Detroit, I'm from Pontiac, but my folks had good jobs and money to move out, so by age 12 I was in Davisburg, MI which I'm sure your all familiar with. At this point I identify as being from Lansing having spent the most cognizant decade of my life there, where I now own home and run an art studio.
I bought my house for 9,900 in October of 2008, the previous year the house had sold for 87,000, not that much was wrong with the house yet, a window appeared broken, but it was a double-pane and the inner one had not broken. I came to find out that the window was victim of a 'drive by shooting' teenagers were supposedly apprehended after they had shot out several windows...READ MORE