My name's Rajesh Thind and I'm based in London. I work through OpenCircuit, a network of creative collaborators spread across the globe... more
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- What I would Change About the World: Food for every family, a school place for every child, and clean air and water for all.
- Current Gig: The Mighty Roars
- Current Project: Developing my first theatre play, as a writer, with the Royal Court Theatre in London. Various film projects too.
- Influences/Heroes: My father.
- Organizations: DocHouse (UK), Documentary Filmmakers Group (UK), ESoDoc (EU), International Documentary Foundation (Prague), European Documentary Network, ambient.tv
- Political Bent: Yes, politics is bent.
- Favorite Bands: The Mighty Roars
- Favorite Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Wong Kar-Wai, Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, Fellini, Paul Greengrass, Michel Gondry, Satyajit Ray, Pedro Almodovar, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Spike Jonze, Andrea Arnold, Lars Von Trier...
- Favorite Movies: Yojimbo, Wings of Desire, Fallen Angels, Festen...
- Favorite TV Shows: Tribe, Spooks, The Daily Show, International documentaries, Chris Morris, Sacha Baron Cohen
- Favorite Track: "Dolls & Bruises" by The Mighty Roars
- Celebrity Crush: Yes, crush the celebrities into small little souvenirs and then sell them and give the money to charity.
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- OpenCircuit unlocked the Picked for TV I badge 1 year ago
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- OpenCircuit is now following scubakat 3 years ago
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- OpenCircuit commented on EU Parliament warns Italy over Gypsy fingerprinting 3 years ago
This is what's really going on underneath all this populist harnessing of xenophobic tendencies... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7548930.stm Funny how governments facing recession... more
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- OpenCircuit voted up Ravers lose sight at laser show 3 years ago
Since the Aquamarine Open Air Festival in Kirzhach, dozens of partygoers have been checking into Moscow's hospital complaining of eye and vision problems. "They all have retinal... more
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- OpenCircuit voted up Father branded a 'pervert' - for photographing his own children in park 3 years ago
When Gary Crutchley started taking pictures of his children playing on an inflatable slide he thought they would be happy reminders of a family day out. But the innocent snaps of seven-year-old... more
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- OpenCircuit commented on EU Parliament warns Italy over Gypsy fingerprinting 3 years ago
Saverio, So everyone in Italy will be fingerprinted. Happy now? A lot of the time fear over "barbarians within the gates" is used precisely like this: as a way to soften societies... more
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- OpenCircuit commented on EU Parliament warns Italy over Gypsy fingerprinting 3 years ago
Saverio, People, No-one is arguing that they shouldn't be given some way to access all those services. Absolutely. But when an Italian starts lecturing ANYONE on "rules that they... more
