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D.K. Bose, D.K. Bose, D.K. Bose
It’s one of my favourite Hindi songs with strange lyrics and almost surrealist imagery. The additional fun comes from the name used in the song, D. K. Bose. By repeating it constantly, as they do, it starts to sound like a Hindi expletive somewhat comparable to the English ‘motherfucker’. Certainly, it was done to avoid…
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I am always late / Muneer Niazi
I am always late with everything In saying something important, In keeping a promise In calling her, In asking her to return I am always late In helping or in consoling a friend In meeting someone on old, ancient roads I am always late In being in love during changing seasons In remembering Or in…
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Yes, we can!
Last night, conversation with my 7 year old nephew went something like this: “But I can’t do whatever I want” “We can try” “Yes … but I’d be dead.” “That doesn’t mean you can’t do it. It just means you’d be dead.”
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The Mirror / insomnia
I just had a dream that I am on my bicycle returning home late and my mother and grandmother are worried. I have an overwhelming sense of relief that someone is waiting for me. I am almost certain where this dream came from. Right before sleeping, I was reading about Vivian Maier’s life: the brilliant…
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The portrait of a young woman as a witch
While walking back home from the university one day, a small stretch of road was particularly empty and there was no one else except a couple just a little further down. I must have glanced at them for a couple of seconds before moving my gaze away but just as I walked past them, the…
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On why men are boring
The sad truth is that men are boring. Well, most men are boring. Either they’re degenerate misogynist criminals, or the obviously good, the obviously-selfless*, the obviously-everything-your-mother-said-should-exist-in-a-good-husband.** Well, not my mother. But someone’s mother. Both these so-called binary opposites are, in fact, one. In essence, in quality. They’re always the same. They do not change. In…
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Bollywood Films for Dummies
Do you look at an image or a painting and say: but I don’t get it. This is not how it actually works … the skull can’t actually dance, I have never seen clocks melt, and, my friend, tell me if you have ever met a man with the face of an apple? Well, then…
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Lights out!
Back in college, we thought we were the coolest, because, of course, we were. We read the coolest books, wore the coolest clothes, had the coolest political views, we did not believe in gender, we bunked classes, we went to bars and lied about our ages, talked openly about sex, etc, etc. In the hostel,…
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The Hippocratic Oath : what I managed to hear in a crowded room
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:… [I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.] I will apply [, for the benefit of the sick,] all measures…
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Words on love
Eagles loom in the sky A chase The violent sound of a catch Caught Caught, oh yes oh caught And now see See, how the knife shines … A game. We have pistols in our hands We are each other’s aim On shooting the aim, the bullet Goes backwards and kills the shooter We…
Beyond Six Rivers 