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Delhi Airport Lost & Found Properties
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Leaving Paris
I arrived in Paris on 10th September, 2024. When I first came here, I wasn’t sure if I were going to stay beyond the summer of this year but it has been one year and a few months that I have been here. In this time, I haven’t really left Paris except for a few…
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On being a failure
When I was 12 years old, I stopped going to school for two years. I hated schools, their strict environments, the constant vigilance, the wafting scent of stale lunches at recess, the other students who never quite became my friends, the expectations that I could never fulfil, the meals I ate alone in the corner…
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I like having a body
I have realised that, as embarrassing as it may be, I like having a body. I like that on any given afternoon, I can sink my fingers into a plate full of steaming rice and squeeze the brains of a prawn in a red curry directly on to it and then lick my fingers with…
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The Louvre and the ass of a horse
The first time someone visits the Louvre, they either go to see the famously cryptic smile of Monalisa or Venus de Milo or Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss and even Liberty Leading the People. There are, of course, also the magnificent remains of the palace of Susa and the Caryatids. Then there are the Italian…
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The Rings of Saturn
One could lie down on the grass at night for hours looking at stars. Though one quickly discovers that apart from stars, there are also planets, meteors, flying planes, the moon, and Elon Musk’s Starlink in the sky. Sirius is the brightest of the stars, from the Latin Sīrius, from the Ancient Greek Σείριος meaning glowing or scorcher. The…
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Banlieues Chéries
What is a banlieue? It took me some time to understand it. At first I didn’t understand it at all. I lived in Paris but if I walked 200 metres, I was no longer in Paris and found myself in Gentilly instead, where I’d once visited a Hawaiian restaurant that served Korean food. However, within…
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Rue du chat qui pêche
In the 5th arrondissement of Paris, next to the street of the cat that fishes, is an old 16th century building from the depths of which people can sometimes hear music. It seems almost like a surreal tableau or a real manifestation of an underground Biblical hell, with hundreds of people, half drunk, dancing late…
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The Hockney Exhibit
Whenever I have conversations these days, the sentences seem to be spoken as if by a defendant. It’s a performance, defence, in front of an invisible jury. People no longer talk, they defend. The invisible jury’s glowing faces, like knives (borrowed from Anne Carson), are ready to cut into the very flesh of the guilty.…
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The Fallen People
I often think of Paul Celan while walking alongside the Seine that, in the summer, smells like fish, sweat, and rotting apples. One can look at the green of the river and imagine the countless bodies that have fallen in it or will fall in it in the future, or one can also try to…
Beyond Six Rivers 