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The Fallen People: Interregnum
“And I have no fear of failure. Let failure annihilate me, I want the glory of falling. My crippled angel who contorts all elusive, my angel who fell from the heavens to the hell where he lives savoring evil.” — Clarice Lispector Sometimes I dream about a crippled Lucifer eating a ripe Normandy apple. When…
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The Fallen People: Galileo Galilei
“Eppur si muove.” (And yet it moves.) (Apocryphal: What Galileo apparently said after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun) It is perhaps not a coincidence that Galileo was named such, as the name derives from the late Latin Galilaeus (“of Galilee”), ultimately referring to the biblical region of…
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The Fallen People: Paul Verlaine
“A vast black sleep, falls over my life, sleep, all hope, sleep, all desire.” Born in Metz, to a petit-bourgeois family, Paul Verlaine first published his collection of poems in French titled Poèmes saturniens (saturnian poems) at the age of twenty-two that established his reputation as a formally experimental poet. This was followed by Fêtes…
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The Fallen People: Caravaggio
There’s a painting I often think about. It depicts young Bacchus (also known as Dionysus), the Greek god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, spectacle, and madness, in a reclining position wearing red green vine leaves and onyx grapes like a crown made of an ancient forest. His right hand is holding on…
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Leaving Jaipur
What does the word Jaipur mean? Melancholy, sunlight, peanuts from Bandikui, once dreamt dreams, Bombay Sapphire gin, black coffee in the coffee house with mandalas, winter fairs, the hands of my mother, bougainvillea, camels, Sephardic orange cake, flashes of the garden in front of the house at Ashok Marg, its flowers, the face of the…
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We are all Othello
In 1603, William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello. The play follows the life of a Moorish military commander, in love with the tender Desdemona, as he pursues power. In this pursuit, he is surrounded by a group of people, also pursuing power, who cannot tolerate seeing Othello…
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Madonna Material Girl
In the 1984 song “Material Girl”, Madonna declares that she is a material girl. She uses logic that’s hard to argue with since she insists that we all must be material because we are living in a material world. Standing against a red background, she rebuffs countless suitors who bring her expensive gifts, all the…
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Delhi Airport Lost & Found Properties
MULTIPLE CURRENCYLEFT SIDE EARBUDS01 USED LADIES PURSE BROWNELECTRIC KETTLE MARKED AGARODENIM JACKETREADING GLASSTEA PACKETSUSA PASSPORTRING01 USED RED AND BLUE HAND BAGAIR TAGSNAKES PACKETSUNGLASS01 TROLLEY BAG DARK BLUE containingMARIUS FABRE savons de marseilles Black Acne Studio silk dress 01 tintype framed photograph 01 watercolour painting PARIS01 PERE GORIOT BALZAC 01 BOOK VOLTAIRE Maybelline DARK BROWN MASCARAM.A.C. Eyeshadow palette01 Printed map SAINT MALO 01…
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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…
