Tag: identity

• Planting the Seed of a Growth Mindset

  

  The core of our beliefs rest in two types of mindsets: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. In this post I will be putting forth some of my learnings on how to nurture the growth mindset. When I say “growth mindset” I mean the conviction that my passions, skills, talents, can be developed further.…

  Diligent Candy

  20 Feb 2019

  Academic, Apoorva, Art, Audience, Awareness, Books, diversity, Education, Gender, Read, Story, Travel

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• 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

  amsterdam ghazal, an indian in amsterdam, choice, Delhi, delhi ghazal, displacement, dutch, dutch culture, Ghazal, identity, living, mobility, Poem, Poetry, refugee, resident, Travel, what do i make of this

• PK after thodi si peeke

  

  Have the reviews and counter-reviews for PK died down? Because, in that case, now would be a good time to write down my thoughts about the movie. For starters: I did enjoy the film and here I will try to delve a little into why I was motivated to do so, amongst usual blog-like meanderings.…

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  24 Jan 2015

  Audience, Awareness, Bollywood, Customer Review, Film, Gender, Music, Story, Travel

  aamir khan, bollywood, change, Cinema, critics, elucidate, film, gandhi, Hindu, identity, indian, intertextual, loss, meta, movies, nature, pakistan, pk, rajkumar hirani, religion, review, thought