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Sunday, March 27, 2022

Silence

Silence

If you've loved
My words
You'll know 
My silence

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

50 Books 50 Countries; Book 12: The Politics of Passion by Gloria Wekker

My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews and ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.

Book 12: The Politics of Passion - Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora
Author: Gloria Wekker (Netherlands) 🇳🇱
Genre: Non-fiction/Anthropology/Women's Studies
Set in: Suriname 🇸🇷

Page 200: 

Between the two extremes are men who know that their women is in the mati work but do not talk about it or make a point of it, so long as it doesn't become too much of a problem or too visible.

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Saturday, March 19, 2022

Juggling three careers over more than a decade

Someone asked me today what my new project is all about. I told her that I am helping in creating and editing digital courses for a university. "But I thought you were a writer," she said. "I am. Been one for over 22 years, as journalist, author and editor. But I have also been an educator for over 13 years so I keep switching between my two careers." My first teaching 'job' was tiresome. I was 18 and was tasked by the Social Involvement Program coordinator at my college to teach domestic servants English at a church in Mumbai. For six months, we were stuck on page 39 because, each week, there were new faces in the group who hadn't read anything before that. I had sworn off teaching then, only to be chaperoning and guiding interns and young writers (some as young as 12) when I was a 22-year-old correspondent and copy editor at TOI. Marriage brought me to Vadodara where writing jobs were rare so I studied design at a studio. And then I got my first teaching job at MS University where I taught Master's students how to make a newspaper. 13 years and I have taught at institutions in India, Afghanistan, US, Australia and Pakistan online and offline and worked on projects with universities in US, UK, Australia, Afghanistan and India and been on board of studies of three universities in India. That too, without a PhD. It's not a hustle, it's a career. Some people have one. Some two. I, along with design, have had three for more than a decade. It's a fine balance, not a linear graph 😀

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Friday, March 18, 2022

50 Books 50 Countries; Book 11: Candide by Voltaire

My reading challenge 2022 is to finish 50 books that have been published/authored/set in 50 different countries. I shall post about the ones I have read, mention the country they are set in and where the author is based. Instead of a review, I shall open a random page in the book and quote a line/para. My reviews and ratings are available on Goodreads, for those who wish to know.

Book 11: Candide

Author: Voltaire (France) 🇫🇷

Genre: Fiction/Classics

Set in: Germany 🇩🇪 Portugal 🇵🇹 Argentina 🇦🇷 Paraguay 🇵🇾 Peru 🇵🇪 Suriname 🇸🇷 France 🇫🇷 Italy 🇮🇹 England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Location 1475:

This discourse gave rise to new reflections, and Martin especially concluded that man was born to live either in a state of distracting inquietude or of lethargic disgust.

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Saturday, March 5, 2022

Chemistry

One of the things I am most passionate about is Chemistry. Many of you have known me from a time before I became a journalist and you know how much I love my radicals and reactions. When I quit my first job at Downtown Plus in TOI in 2007, I told the editor that I wanted to learn how to make steel so I was going to Jamshedpur. She shook her head in disbelief. But there I was after a couple of weeks standing above a lava of molten iron coming out of the blast furnace at the Tata Steel plant in Jamshedpur. After marrying my husband and moving to Vadodara, factories became part of my day to day life and discussions about grades of steel dinner conversations. At a mining expo in Sydney when a Chinese rep told me the kind of steel he had was secret, I rebuffed him by telling him I come from a country that has been making steel for 5000 years. Yesterday, after a very long time, I took on a small writing project for a B2B magazine. The gentleman I interviewed owns a Rs 200 crore paints and coating business. For an hour, we talked chemistry and it brought back memories of me working in the lab and then working out those reactions in my head. It made me smile.

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