Tag: poems

• The Last Post of 2018 – a ghazal

  

  I asked him what should my last post be year end He said, reflecting creatively on the year end How boring, no? All year you follow and watch, still on YouTube, endless rewinds declaring the year end I started work in diversity, submitted my thesis, Going to mentor, gearing up at the year end Revolution […]

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  31 Dec 2018

  Apoorva, Poem A Day, Poetry, Read, Story

  for apoorva, Ghazal, love lyric, neena gupta, neenaji, Poem, poem a day, poems, Poetry, refrain, rhyme, takallhus, year end

• Face Reveal – a Half-Ghazal

  

  Face Reveal – a Half-Ghazal My son, age 10, is into Rumi, and his face reveal The Youtuber who does voices, and HowToBasic’s face reveal Rumi the murid to murshid Shams He whispered, away from all, I will make my face reveal Trust is built brick by brick, layer over layer Till, one day, the […]

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  7 Apr 2018

  Art, microblogging, Parenting, Poem A Day, Poetry, Story

  are you listening, bhindi, broken, eastern things, faces, for apoorva, Ghazal, half ghazal, heads, heart matters, i am speaking, life, macbeth, masks, my son, now in the west, poems, ravana, Rumi, sexuality, shams, the other, the writing life, trust, voices, water, Writing

• Autumn Moments in Amsterdam, 2017 Edition

  

  Fall, leaves, fall By Emily Bronte Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow; I shall sing when night’s decay Ushers in a drearier day. (Source: Poetry Foundation) […]

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  5 Nov 2017

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

  amsterdam, autumn, blog, bronte poem, canals, canals of amsterdam, cityscapes, cycle, dam square, dutch, e, Earth, fall, fun, harvest, journal, leaves, lets walk, life, nature, nature photography, Netherlands, photos, places, poems, Poetry, roads, season, space, sun, the last leaf, Travel, trees, urban trails, Writing

• Those Literature Courses I Cook Up

  

  In 2013, Apoorva put this up as his Facebook status update: Some electives for the upcoming Autumn term. What would you like to study? Sociology of the upper-middle class Misogyny and education Poetry of poverty Mental health in patriarchal societies Conflict and negotiation in family settings Mathematical methods for personal relationships Psychology of empathy History […]

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  26 Jul 2017

  Academic, Apoorva, Books, Education, Film, Food, Gender, Story

  bhindi, college, course design, course suggestion, courses, education, fun, Games, grow, journal, learn, learning, life, literature, literature in english, mobility, new and old, new courses, poems, Poetry, recommend, space, study, technology, what if, work, Writing

• The walls of the room I am building

  

  The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies had their research day conference on 26th May 2014 in Amsterdam. The day was titled – Doing Gender in the Netherlands: Feminism in Transition (Activism, Institutions and Canons). I was there to present a paper: Tumbling Wall: Adrienne Rich Dismantles a Male Form. My paper spoke about the […]

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  1 Jun 2014

  Academic, Awareness, Books, Poetry, Story, Travel

  Adrienne Rich, amsterdam, awareness, canons, doing gender, feminism, gender studies, Ghazal, graduate school, Mirza Ghalib, NOG, phd, poems, research, structure, study, the netherlands, transition