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Only connect: October 2013
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.'. Tuesday, 15 October 2013. I read you over and over. As if reading poetry,. Not the kind I don’t get. But the kind that gets me. And I go over it carefully,. Amazed, to find out what exactly it was. And why so important to me. Discovering, or not discovering, the answer,. I go on, read further. Hoping I'll find more such,. Wanting to die trying. To understand the poet. Who understood me perfectly,. To listen with rapt attention.
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Only connect: July 2014
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.'. Tuesday, 22 July 2014. The Heart of Light. It is difficult to imagine the RWAs subjecting European visitors to such obloquy, though they have their own challenges to deal with. Gati Studio/Photograph courtesy: Soumik Mukherjee. Do they feel more secure or violated? Do the machines instil confidence or lend insecurities to their daily milieu? I try to think about what may have happened for them to project their fear upon what has otherwis...
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Only connect: December 2013
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.'. Saturday, 28 December 2013. Look Who Is Talking. Chubby cheeks, dimpled chin,. Rosy lips, teeth within. What do you say, son? Looks like a good one. Curly hair, very fair,. Eyes are blue, lovely too. Speaks too, though, you sure that will do? 8216;No, no, no! Wednesday, 25 December 2013. Yellow means a sunflower. A single stem brightening a whole room. Yellow means a child’s nursery. A thick wad melting on a steaming hot aloo-paratha.
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Only connect: October 2014
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.'. Monday, 20 October 2014. A Curse Be upon It. For years now I have been looking to enrich my vocabulary of swear words with no troublesome arrows in the quiver. There are times when I urgently need to use profanity, for example, against all the harassers on bikes and in cars who would hoot at or brush past me, literally giving me a. All the verbal linguistic emphasis is placed upon the. SOB is again supposed to be offensive to women thoug...
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Only connect: How to Get Married Without an Aadhaar Number
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.'. Saturday, 9 May 2015. How to Get Married Without an Aadhaar Number. From the time of its inception, in the year 2009, a key question at the centre of the Unique Identification (UID) project has been whether the 12-digit Aadhaar number can be made mandatory, and whether people can be denied services for not having one. Neither of us had enrolled for Aadhaar, but the office staff informed us that if we did so immediately, our enrolment num...
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Only connect: August 2014
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.'. Friday, 29 August 2014. Two minor girls in Rohtak (Haryana), Madhu and Nikita, who ended their lives on August 25 after being stalked. Wrote in their suicide. At some point and that was the end of it. When I joined college in Delhi University, the STD booth at the entrance to my hostel had numbers of the police and women's helpline. Teachers and seniors talked to us about it; leaflets were given out. I lodged my. Welcome to the jungle.
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Only connect: March 2014
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.'. Saturday, 29 March 2014. विस्थापन बनाम पुनर्विकास: कठपुतली कौलोनी की कहानी. बगैर जनसहमति डीडीए की मनमानी. रहेजा बिल्डर्स और. ट्रान्जिट कैम्प की हालत. फ़्लैट की दिक्कतें. क्या उनसे पूछा गया है कि वे अपना पुराना काम छोड़ने के लिए तैयार हैं या नहीं? लिफ्ट में तो वो बेहोश ही हो जाएंगे। और अगर ऐसे में कभी लिफ्ट खराब ह...कलाकारविहीन कठपुतली कौलोनी की विडम्बना. हक की बात. कानूनी तौर पर भी ये पुनर्...Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Only connect: April 2014
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.'. Wednesday, 23 April 2014. Leafing through a magazine,. I see the picture of an Afghan. Beside his dead girl. Or, I think I do. To find out why. Affleck decided to sign ‘Pearl Harbor’. Tuesday, 22 April 2014. Second Place Is No Place. So you have to be in the first place. So you have to slog till you drop. So you have to be up again. So between all this, you can’t afford to have a tête-à-tête with the mynah at your window. Of what I am.
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Only connect: February 2014
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.'. Monday, 24 February 2014. How desperate we are to laugh-. To chime with a can of laughter-. Exhaling nervous relief,. Reassured that it wasn't a can of worms. A concert is over. See you at the next one. We shall continue to create and assimilate. The sweetest music ever-. A response to the Zubin Mehta concert in Kashmir. Tuesday, 18 February 2014. Monday, 17 February 2014. The Ride before the Fall. The Games We Play. A noisy high-five,.
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Only connect: Stirrings beneath the peepul
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.'. Friday, 24 April 2015. Stirrings beneath the peepul. Then began reports of some khaps banning foeticide or stating that it is an outdated custom to ban inter-caste marriages. There was. I am not fit to stand next to my wife. I have ill-treated her.'. Ram Mehar Singh Hooda. Erstwhile pradhan, Hooda khap. Weak and they deserve all the support they can get.' I find it ironic that a little while ago he had called women superior. Upon knowing...
