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Jun 19, 2021

Unorganized Reveries

How odd that the ‘deep thoughts’, those reserved for the beautiful, neat, tidy pages of a diary, instead most usually (or unusually) emerge on the edges of half-torn, crumpled up, creased papers, those meant for rough work, or scribbling… much like how these set of reveries came to be. And…

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Dec 16, 2020

Figaro

When I walked down the street, there was a small Figaro, positioned approximately halfway to the place I wanted to get to five minutes down the road. I used to pass it every time, every day. In 1991, there were only 20,073 Figaros made by Nissan. The New York Times’…

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Oct 30, 2020

An overdone trope of contemplating one’s identity — II (a history we are slowly forgetting)

Part II— Overdone trope of contemplating one’s identity; Link to Part I embedded The Indian subcontinent was partitioned first into East / West Pakistan and India, and then later into Pakistan and Bangladesh. In 1947, when the first Partition happened, there were about 1.4 million Hindus living in the province…

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An overdone trope of contemplating one’s identity — II (a history we are slowly forgetting)

12 min read

Oct 30, 2020

An overdone trope of contemplating one’s identity — I (Overlooked Diaspora)

Part I — Overdone trope of contemplating one’s identity; Link to Part II towards the end South Asians will be familiar with the overdone diaspora-living-in-the-West identity trope: ‘where am I from?’. This internal struggle of identity that diaspora have had, of balancing their Western upbringing with their more ‘cultural’ roots…

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An overdone trope of contemplating one’s identity

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