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Genuineness IS NOT EQUAL TO Authenticity

Posted in academics, blogging, tagged , , , , on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

And this is something I had to relearn from ELT. Soon, I think I will even be capable of telling apart midnight from 12.00 a.m. and so on. In the past 24 hours, I have slept for some 10 hours. And in he remaining time, read 4 books. Where I pick up such absolutely true, [...]

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Piled Higher And Deeper (the first in the series of blogs where I rant about the process of writing my thesis)

Posted in academics, age, blogging, parents, work, writing, tagged , , , , , , , on May 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Since I don’t have anywhere else to offload my angst, I shall torture this poor blog of mine. Ever since 2009 started, my dad has been *extremely* worried as to whether I will complete my PhD at all. Before I launch head-on into things, let me make some of the background clear. My dad is [...]

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The lunatic, the lover and the poet

Posted in academics, blogging, catharsis, culture, depression, health, insanity, intellectuals, personal, poetry, reading, research, women, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 25, 2008 | 10 Comments »

I will not do a lot of theorizing, but instead just share an excerpt from a text which rankled me quite a bit. I was reading this journal article, it even had a good title (Every Poem Breaks a Silence That Had to be Overcome: The Therapeutic Power of Poetry Writing), but this particular idea [...]

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The Semester’s Come to An End

Posted in work, tagged , , on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

After what seemed like ages, really! Now, the next set of classes begins only on Jan. 5 and till then I can pursue other dreams (which might not be so dreamy at all, such as, writing a research paper, my half-yearly report, and a long-pending translation work)..  Today, the students of the batch that I [...]

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A return to blogging

Posted in blogging, culture, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 10, 2008 | 10 Comments »

After an immensely long, intensely painful gap. So, drop all your expectations of coherency and reason, and if you really care, just listen to me.
a) Was really, really expecting, and then excited over, the Obama win. I am still happy, and like the rest of India, want his success to be replicated by Dalit leaders. (Although [...]

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A blogging award

Posted in blogging, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »

So, a couple of days before Meena Vathyam (yes, we namesakes do love each other), who blogs at Musings of a Lost Explorer decided to give me a blog-award. I do feel really elated (given that my blog is one of the most-ignored aspects of my life), and I do want to do better. So, [...]

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Some not-so-interesting details

Posted in blogging, tagged , , on August 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I just realized that I was totally capable of losing myself even within the university campus. Yes, this is a huge campus, and one building with a construction site nearby, looks like another, but all said and done, I suddenly found myself on the Sardar Patel Road stretch. And two other lost souls, who were [...]

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Does teaching have to be so tiring?

Posted in blogging, writing, tagged , , on August 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I have been asked to handle a class of 80+ students. Can’t even put into words how tired I feel at the end of the day. And though I take my laptop to the university, I am not sure I get into the necessary frame of mind to blog. I have turned into one hell [...]

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