Episodes
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I am a political woman
I am a political womanI scare the world easyI grew up in a worldwhere suffering is silencedIn rituals, customs, and in festivals I am a political womanthe invisible pain of my grandmother and mothers, I seewomen before melong gone nowstill awaiting a social trial I am a political womanI make them...
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Our Future Is Calling, India
Collapse of a land By the weak minds of its people The leader, in his 56-inch capacity Creating a delusional world What was the world like before this? The great grandchildren of the people wonder now A dystopian reality Every night they go to bed In wonder, with growling stomach with only one...
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Courage of Palestine
Never knew courageUntil I heard of a 13-year-old girlArrested in Palestine for holding a knifeChildren, arrested and beaten by armiesBig strength. How impressive! The ghettos, segregation, the torture, the dehumanisationAs I watchedI remembered History repeating itselfThe books with their endless...
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Love Will Save You, India
It’s love that saves us. My grandmother She was 15 Riots broke out An old Muslim man hid her away In her 60s, she repeated this story to me endlessly In the same house, after many years Now, there are conversation around how ‘these people’ The language from “Darga sheriff” has become “they cannot...
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Hind Rajab, a poem
Note: There’s a minor correction, it is supposed to be the words of a Hindi poet who wrote in Veer Ras. The Hindi poet mentioned here is Ramdhari Singh Dinkar and he wrote…समर शेष है, नहीं पाप का भागी केवल व्याध;जो तटस्थ हैं, समय लिखेगा उनके भी अपराध।Samar sesh hai, nahi pap ka bhagi keval vyadh;...
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India Celebrates 79th Independence Day
My raw thoughts on what’s happening in India right now and how we are entering to another year of freedom. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ageofreasonindia.substack.com
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Click! You’re an Art in Paris (Also, You Had No Idea)
Click. Capture. Colonize! We dive into the messy ethics of photography today. What happens when your face becomes art—without you even knowing? From a passionate French photographer in India to the iconic Afghan Girl photo in Pakistan, we unpack consent or ‘just a casual sure’, ‘the picture you...