Tag: Book

• The Graph of a Cry

  

  My dissertation is available as a book for academics, libraries, and those who are interested to read more about the phenomenal journey of the American ghazal. This dissertation analyzes the journey of the ancient Arabic poetic form of the ghazal to America to provide insights into transnational poetry and cultural mobility. While the movement of…

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  13 Aug 2022

  Academic, Art, Awareness, Books, dissertation, diversity, Education, Gender, Personal is Political, phd, Poetry, Read, research, Story, Travel

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• Top 5 books I read in 2018

  

  It is almost the end of the year and a good time to reflect on the best books I read in 2018. I try to read as many books as my age, this year had the ambitious 39 figure. I managed to read 33. Falling short of my goal by 6 books, but then it…

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  26 Dec 2018

  Academic, Books, diversity, Education, Read, Story

  2019 goals, a little life, bipolar, Book, books 2018, bookworms, eleanor oliphant is completely fine, gail honeyman, han kang, hanya yanagihara, heart berries, in cold blood, memoir, mental health, novels, ptsd, Read, read with me, readers, reading, roundup, shame, sleeper emotion, the vegetarian, top 5 books, trauma, true crime, truman capote

• Learning how to THINK: review of Bitasta Roy Mehta’s book Have a THINK

  

  I applaud Bitasta Roy Mehta for hitting the nail directly on the head when it comes to people management, be it in organizational practices or as individual parts of the fabric of society. What am I talking about? A book called Have a THINK. I needed this book at this juncture of my career and…

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  1 Aug 2017

  Academic, Awareness, Books, Customer Review, Education, Story

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• Rereading The God of Small Things

  

  It is like returning to a lover you never stopped loving I pause and linger, rolling words in my mouth, tasting the luscious lusty writing of someone as giving as Roy It is indulgent and selfish on my part After all there are many new books waiting on the to-read shelf Still….. They can wait…

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  25 Feb 2016

  Art, Books, Story

  arundhati roy, Book, people who belong to rivers, reading, return, River, roy, the god of small things

• Paris in the rain

  

  Saturday, January 10, 2015, I was to be in Paris for the day to meet poet and translator Marilyn Hacker. I had many questions about her experience with the ghazal and ghazal poets; she was generous enough to offer her day to me. On Monday 5th I booked my tickets to travel by the Thalys…

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  11 Jan 2015

  Academic, Apoorva, Awareness, Books, Gender, Parenting, Photography, Poetry, Story

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• I WROTE A BOOK!

  

  Originally posted on Collectivity: Ok. i’m lying. My sister wrote a Book. She’s this horrifyingly overachieving woman who is an inspiration to all, and a pain in my ass. She’s one of the youngest Women MDs of an MNC in the world. AND, in the 2 month between her switching jobs, she managed to write a book…

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  2 May 2014

  Books, Story

  alice, Book, corporate, tarun tripathi, tulika tripathi

• “Dedications”

  

  “I know you are reading this poem late, before leaving your office of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the darkening window in the lassitude of a building faded to quiet long after rush-hour. I know you are reading this poem standing up in a bookstore far from the ocean on a grey day of…

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  1 Mar 2014

  Books, Poetry

  Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World, Book, Dedications, Poem, Poetry, Read