Tag: study

• Teaching the Ghazal in Class

  

  Last week I was subbing at the Vrije Universteit for the Genre, Literature and Analysis class for the Bachelor First Year course. I was teaching the villanelle and ghazal, which involved aspects of the forms as well as close reading. I found myself in a room full of bright, intelligent, engaged, and wise students. They […]

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  20 Nov 2017

  Academic, Art, Audience, Awareness, Education, Poem A Day, Poetry, Story

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• 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

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• Going away – a visit to NIAS

  

  Our team at work went for an offsite to NIAS in Wassenaar. I wrote a small feature on the outing. I am sharing a snippet (the one which Purab made me read out again): Autumn is an extraordinary season. The trees laden with orange, brown and red, shed their leaves. Ripe with the experiences of the […]

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  22 Nov 2014

  Academic, Apoorva, Photography, Story, Travel

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• 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

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