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Happy New Year: Counting My Blessings
Photo by Kostiantyn Li via unsplash.com Yesterday, I was returning home from vacation and the whole dislike for waiting rooms and the existential dread of yet another year ending, with the reminder of all our forever dissatisfactions sent me off on a spiral of longing and wishes. Which is fine, I guess. After all, this […]
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The Waiting Hall: New Year’s Eve
On the last day of the year, we came down from the mountains at the end of our little winter vacation. As the car pulled into the ‘Drop & Drive’ lane, I felt the stirrings of a vague sense of anxiety.
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Poems, memories and moving past heartbreaks
Day 17. Today I wrote a haiku for International Haiku Day, using the phrase ‘gibbous moon’. This was the prompt from the Instagram page Kavyajananipoetry. The prompt from napowrimo.net was quite cool, it was just that I wanted to catch up with some of my reading lists, so I wrote only one poem. But I did think […]
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On Getting a PhD, NaPoWriMo & Stuff
Sorry, it has been a while. Things just pile up on one another, you know. But here’s the main news. The thing I’ve been waiting for since last December finally happened. Last month, on the 16th, I got my TARDIS driving license. Which is to say, I successfully defended my PhD thesis. What? I’ve been […]
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Monday Musings
I have a folder full of grading to do. Just the grading. Put a number against the white, no evaluation required. I am paid for my signature, not my opinion. I have four different excel sheets to fill up and I can’t bring myself to open my laptop. I keep wondering when you reach the […]
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The Anatomy of Waiting
I’ve been looking for things to say. I have been afraid of staring at blank pages. What if someday I have nothing to say anymore? What if nothing I say interests anyone anymore? What if no one hears me? What if they hear me and laugh at my naiveté? So what am I going to write […]
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The Data Cycle: Teaching on the CBCS Syllabi during the Pandemic
‘Why am I doing this? What am I changing? Am I doing any good at all?’ In my professional teaching career in Higher Education of over six years, I have often found myself confronted with these questions. As I sit here almost regretting my hasty promise to Arunima to write this piece, I am drowning […]
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When I Fear I May Cease To Be
Isn’t the Mercury Retrograde over yet? Everything seems suspended in a strange sort of stasis. We return to our lives that used to be with the shadow of a fear. I just want us all to be happy again. In the room where I got my vaccine doses, the lights on the ceiling were soft […]
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