Tag: freedom

• Freedom in a Nutshell

  

  All wrapped up in my own thoughts. Is there anything called freedom? Where you know the ground that you stand on, understand the decisions you plan on taking? I heard you saying, “we are the choices we make,” as you dragged your toe drawing patterns on the dusty floor. I suppose that you believed in […]

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  18 Jan 2019

  Art, Creative Writing, Read, Story

  creative, develop, freedom, grow, key, learn, life, longreads, people, spaces, the creative heart, the writing life, vignettes, what if, write everyday, Writing, written

• Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam

  

  A day spent at the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam. Such peace and tranquility in the heart of a busy city is unusual. The meditative spaces and careful corners are crafted here with such sensitivity.

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  24 Jul 2015

  Art, Customer Review, Photography, Story, Travel

  amsterdam, europe, fauna, flora, freedom, green, hortus botanicus, languid, markedfeature, moments, Netherlands, peace and quiet, plants, silence, summer, trees

• 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

  Abida Parveen, academia, Adrienne Rich, Agha Shahid Ali, amsterdam, Apoorva, art, bambi, Blood, Book, borders, charlie, children, Darwish, freedom, frontpage, gare du nord, Ghalib, Ghazal, hafez, hanif kureishi, honey hunter, karthika nair, life, locks, Marilyn Hacker, names, nation states, not here, not now, notre dame, Paris, Poetry, rafiq kathwari, rain, roger sedarat, Rumi, seine, train