Tag: intellectual freedom

• Pictorial Ode to Twente

  

  We spent October break in Twente. Pictures featured here include Oldenzaal, where we stopped for lunch, De Lutte, and Enschede. Our stay was at a hotel in De Lutte called Landgoed de Wilmersberg. It is a quaint and cosy property full of old world charm. They have beautiful pathways to either walk or bike. Bikes…

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  4 Nov 2019

  Apoorva, Art, diversity, Travel

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• 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.…

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  20 Feb 2019

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

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• Scratching at Layers of Patriarchal Sedimentation

  

  During my research on the ghazal, I discovered that the work done by several women poets in the eighteenth and nineteenth century had been removed from written history. Women had systematically been excluded from several anthologies. In Urdu, as oral poetry started being complied and printed, the biographies penned by poet and historian Altaf Hussain…

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  14 Jan 2019

  Academic, Art, Awareness, Books, diversity, Gender, Read

  formal systems, Ghazal, intellectual freedom, knowledges, labor, lapis lazuli, mah laqa bai, michel foucault, patriarchal, scott kugle, sedimentation, subjugated, unpacking, uphill, women

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Being a strong woman isn’t remarkable, it’s normal

  

  “Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don’t do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you. And the world is such a gloriously multifaceted, diverse place that there are people in…

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  2 Jun 2015

  Academic, Awareness, Education, Story

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