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Rolling and Smoking Will – A Ghazal
Rolling and Smoking Will – A Ghazal Leftovers marked impending will Let go if you can bending will Old China, teak furniture, books His never-ending quill I closed the suitcase lid No hope left in swallowing pills A garden of roses and jasmine He wove magic with his tending till What is gone can’t…
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The Normal Heart – VU Book Club
Things I learnt at the VU Book Club session conducted by Dirk Visser on Larry Kramer and his play “The Normal Heart.” It was a learning experience for I had little knowledge on AIDS and almost no idea as to how it was directly linked to homophobia: The AIDS debate is, “Not a rational but…
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Emmanuel Moses in Amsterdam
Location: Broodhuys Only a poet could go through pain, heartache, agony and say, “it was beautiful.” Only a poet. Thank you Emmanuel.
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Aur bhi dukh~ Faiz
Aur bhi dukh hain zamane mein mohabbat ke siva rahaten aur bhi vasl ki rahat ke siva Faiz Ahmed Faiz (via d-u-n-i-y-a)
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Nitasha Kaul – What Does it Mean to be an Internationalist Today?
Having known Nitasha and read her articulate, precise and insightful work, it gives me immense pride and pleasure to share with you this video of her speaking at a conference in London about what it means to be an internationalist today. “Beyond the nation state and concentric circles of self” – if there is one…
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Naz and its detractors: A response by Jordan Osserman
Originally posted on KAFILA – COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006: Guest Post by Jordan Osserman Amidst the outcry of queer rage and mourning against the Supreme Court judgment has emerged a strand of skepticism (For examples See here , here and here) from within queer circles, directed at the participants in the anti-377 campaign. These skeptics…
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The dancing moth
I have been mulling over the relevance of people and opinions. And, I turned to the cosmos to give me a sign as to what is the way forward. It should not surprise me but I was pleasantly so when I read this: “Instead, the major stories in Book Two are primarily concerned with the…
