Tag: walls

• Lisbon day 5: Let’s Go to Alfama

  

  Apoorva said the streets of Alfama reminded him of Ajmer back in the day. I could see this, the curling narrow roads akin to gullies, windows that face each other making room for glances or chats, blinking cats that seemed to be in a languid trance, and Tram 28 meandering through like a boa who…

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  31 Aug 2017

  Art, Food, Photography, Story, Travel

  alfama, architecture, art, azulejos, balcony, birds, bread, city life, city pockets, clothes, color, colorful, doors, fado, fish, Ghazal, graffiti, green, grow, history, houses, journal, learning, life, lisboa, lisbon, old city, other people, pastel, people, people watching, people who belong to rivers, places, plants, portugal, portugese, rice, sagres, space, stairs, tiles, tram, Travel, trees, tuktuk, urban, urbanscape, walls, windows, work

• Conversations About Home (at a deportation centre) – Warsan Shire and Ugly

  

  Poem: “Conversations About Home (at a deportation centre)” Poet: Warsan Shire Well, I think home spat me out, the blackouts and curfews like tongue against loose tooth. God, do you know how difficult it is, to talk about the day your own city dragged you by the hair, past the old prison, past the school…

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  10 Jul 2014

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

  boundaries, compartments, culture, daughters, home, immigration, indra nooyi, masks, migrant, mothers, Poem, Poetry, roles, the other, ugly, walls, warsan shire, women