Tag: Delhi

• Dressing Amsterdam in a Ghazal

  

  Do you think I can ever write in the vein of Delhi about Amsterdam? I did not choose Delhi, but once upon a time I selected living in Amsterdam In Delhi, we have serpentine avenues with magnificent trees I could find the cycle of seasons, getting and shedding leaves, in Amsterdam Sometimes I went looking…

  Diligent Candy

  4 Feb 2019

  Creative Writing, diversity, Gender, Poem A Day, Poetry, Read, Story, Travel

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• Delhi is a Ghazal

  

  On reading Mumbai’s Ghazal by Raef Kazi I dream of Delhi sitting in Amsterdam tonight Glamor in the lawns, silk whispers to pashmina tonight All that dust, never dulls the white gaadis and kurtas This is Delhi we are talking about tonight Tall red brick walls surrounding gated marvels Ghazals soirees and an open grill…

  Diligent Candy

  26 Jan 2019

  Art, Poem A Day, Poetry, Read, Story, Travel

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• One thousand desires | An Ode to Mirza Ghalib

  

  One thousand desires | An Ode to Mirza Ghalib. Today I discovered this beautiful blog called “A Date with Delhi” – impossible to turn that down; it is everything that I remember of Delhi. A friend had storified my tweets about Delhi. I am hoping I can put them up here. It is a city…

  Diligent Candy

  4 Jun 2013

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  blog, Delhi, Mirza Ghalib