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Georgia
There is always so much more to read. I find myself in conversations: “No, I haven’t read that.” The prospect is thrilling and worrying. There is that constant niggle – out there could be that one book I wish I had read before putting pen to paper. Each day passes in the pursuit of that…
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Found in translation
Translations don’t fade the essence, sometimes. The case in point being “Here There Was Once A Country.” Marilyn Hacker handles Venus Khoury-Ghata’s words with such delicate care. Recreating, retelling, such raw grief, poignancy, of forgotten places and trying to move on somehow, anyhow.
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Using words
Today’s online edition of Times of India has a rather bizarre headline – “Salman Khan beats Katrina Kaif“. Inside you will find an article on an online search engine result. How callous and insensitive have we become to find insinuations and violent innuendos perfectly acceptable. I was also thinking about headlines to do with actors…
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Road trip with the boys
We drove from Amsterdam to Dusseldorf. From Dusseldorf to Radhadesh. And then to Genval. From there back home. It was an impromptu trip. I felt my creativity was clogged. I could smell the rust inside my head. And, I knew that all our friends would be away. We packed light, threw caution to the…
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Persepolis
Reading Persepolis was like returning to a warm and safe place. Ironically, the graphic novel is the loss of that, that someone understood, lived through it, to bear witness to that truth is beyond powerful. This is the second graphic novel I’ve read (the first one being Maus) and I immensely enjoy the form. To…
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2
2 Gifting two with two The back and forth, me and you For years I kept quiet, never said a word about you Others – yes, but I spared you But now you too A cell begins to divide creating you One to two This is me and this is you I was born to…
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Kathjodi
I remember the Ambassador rides from Bhubaneswar to Cuttack Your tussar sari draped around your shoulder At home you would read files, make notes “It is tough being a woman Secretary of Industries” You had endometriosis A fresh incision on an arterial vein Never did you take a day off, Never did anyone find out In…
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Gender Log India
Gender Log India This whole week I will be tweeting as @genderlogindia “Imagining equality: a crowdsourced hub on gender from India, with a new guest curator each week.” You can find out more about this movement through the link : http://genderlog.com/
