{"id":3996,"date":"2026-05-10T20:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/?page_id=3996"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:50:22","slug":"writings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/writings\/","title":{"rendered":"WRITINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3996\" class=\"elementor elementor-3996\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b9c719a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3b9c719a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ad89dda elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2ad89dda\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">magi  viljanen <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-761f6603 elementor-nav-menu__align-start elementor-nav-menu__text-align-center elementor-nav-menu--dropdown-tablet elementor-nav-menu--toggle elementor-nav-menu--burger elementor-widget elementor-widget-nav-menu\" data-id=\"761f6603\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;submenu_icon&quot;:{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;&lt;i class=\\&quot;fas fa-chevron-down\\&quot; aria-hidden=\\&quot;true\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/i&gt;&quot;,&quot;library&quot;:&quot;fa-solid&quot;},&quot;layout&quot;:&quot;horizontal&quot;,&quot;toggle&quot;:&quot;burger&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"nav-menu.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<nav 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class=\"elementor-item\">WORKS<\/a>\n<ul class=\"sub-menu elementor-nav-menu--dropdown\">\n\t<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-762\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/nayttelyt-copy\/\" class=\"elementor-sub-item\">EXHIBITIONS<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-716\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/kirjat\/\" class=\"elementor-sub-item\">PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-717\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/nayttelyt-2\/\" class=\"elementor-sub-item\">VIDEOS<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-4121\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/installations\/\" class=\"elementor-sub-item\">INSTALLATIONS<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-4122\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/writings\/\" class=\"elementor-sub-item\">WRITINGS<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-898\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/videot-videos\/\" class=\"elementor-sub-item\">OTHER STUFF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-138\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/contact\/\" class=\"elementor-item\">CONTACT<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t<\/nav>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-toggle\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Menu Toggle\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"elementor-menu-toggle__icon--open eicon-menu-bar\"><\/i><i aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"elementor-menu-toggle__icon--close eicon-close\"><\/i>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<nav class=\"elementor-nav-menu--dropdown elementor-nav-menu__container\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<ul id=\"menu-2-761f6603\" class=\"elementor-nav-menu\"><li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-home menu-item-13\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">HOME<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-129\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/about-magi\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">ABOUT MAGI<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-128\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/cv\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">CV<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-has-children menu-item-132\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">WORKS<\/a>\n<ul class=\"sub-menu elementor-nav-menu--dropdown\">\n\t<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-762\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/nayttelyt-copy\/\" class=\"elementor-sub-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">EXHIBITIONS<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-716\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/kirjat\/\" class=\"elementor-sub-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-717\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/nayttelyt-2\/\" class=\"elementor-sub-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">VIDEOS<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-4121\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/installations\/\" class=\"elementor-sub-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">INSTALLATIONS<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-4122\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/writings\/\" class=\"elementor-sub-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">WRITINGS<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-898\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/works\/videot-videos\/\" class=\"elementor-sub-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">OTHER STUFF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-138\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiviljanen.fi\/staging\/contact\/\" class=\"elementor-item\" tabindex=\"-1\">CONTACT<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t<\/nav>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30ad39b9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"30ad39b9\" data-element_type=\"container\" 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elementor-size-default\">3 March 2026\n<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-753c63b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"753c63b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Ahmedabad,\n\n\n\n <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6870a0d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6870a0d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>before leaving for desert wedding<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37829dc0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"37829dc0\" 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Not the wonderland of film stars, shimmering saris, and overacted musicals, but its shadow, the slum in the heart of Ahmedabad. I have often walked its streets, peered into homes built along the edge of a brick wall. One neighbor is separated from another only by a pile of metal boxes or a sari stretched across a clothesline. The picture window has no window at all, and it opens onto everyone who passes by: scooters, children hurrying to school, nighttime wanderers, and cows unaware of their own sacredness.<\/p><p data-start=\"2378\" data-end=\"2789\">I notice that the slum has shrunk. Money has pushed it into an ever tighter corner. The bulldozers came and crushed homes beneath them, along with a wall on which someone had drawn the image of their god and two hearts pierced by an arrow. People slipped away like cockroaches into their cracks when the light is switched on. In their place now stand StarBuckx, a Thai Spa, and a boutique selling wedding saris.<\/p><p data-start=\"2791\" data-end=\"3104\">I wonder why I keep returning here. I do not admire decay or romanticize poverty, but when I look at an overturned cot, a bicycle leaning against it, and little bags hanging from the handlebars, I see harmony. Perhaps beauty is born from the rhythm of everyday life rather than from the lofty ideas of a designer.<\/p><p data-start=\"3106\" data-end=\"3341\">I do not notice the rubbish or the stream of waste flowing into the street drain as I photograph two women. They are beautiful, wrapping their arms around each other and smiling\u2014not at the camera, not at me, but at this moment of life.<\/p><p data-start=\"3343\" data-end=\"3490\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">I think: perhaps I am not photographing people after all, but joy, friendship, hope\u2014and sometimes hopelessness. The trace of karma in a human life.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dc84753 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"dc84753\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2810d4d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2810d4d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c262910 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"c262910\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"#\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-long-arrow-alt-left\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Click here<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77efb69 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"77efb69\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"#\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">All Writings<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-95ee4a8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"95ee4a8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"#\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-long-arrow-alt-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Click here<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>magi viljanen 3 March 2026 Ahmedabad, before leaving for desert wedding I watch as the rickshaw turns into Bollywood. 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