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metaphorwrites · 12 days
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“Don’t let the concept of change scare you as much as the prospect of remaining unhappy.”
— Timber Hawkeye
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metaphorwrites · 17 days
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“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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metaphorwrites · 2 months
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THREE OF US AND PAST LIVES: THE ART OF LONGING
“But that little girl did exist. 20 years ago, I left her behind with you.” These are the words of Na Young in the movie Past Lives. But this can very well be the words of Shailaja from Three of Us. Watching the two movies within a span of one week made me realise how similarly their heart’s beat. How does it feel to return to one’s udgam? How does it feel to witness it as the third person? Both…
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metaphorwrites · 4 months
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thinking about jeff buckley being asked, "how do you want to be remembered?" and answering with, "as a good friend."
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metaphorwrites · 4 months
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Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)
[Text ID: A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees; they are the ribs of childhood.]
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metaphorwrites · 5 months
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David Whyte in conversation with Krista Tippett, On Being [transcript in ALT]
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metaphorwrites · 5 months
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Richard Siken, from "On Perplexity: Chrysanthemum"
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metaphorwrites · 7 months
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Self-Discovery in Irrfan Khan Movies
Puzzle (2018) and The Lunchbox (2013) are two movies starring Irrfan Khan, having broadly similar themes. Two strangers come together in a stranger way, form a brief relationship, and then go on with their individual lives to discover themselves. They are not films that can be classified into any familiar romantic trope. Love enables the individuals to have a voice and act for themselves. It is…
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metaphorwrites · 7 months
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Thoughts on a Rainy Evening
I hear the rain falling heavily outside. The irregular noise of the water, falling – from the sky, from the cracked pipe of the corner building, through the giant peepul tree. Reflections cannot get a scope to identify themselves, they are dancing a mad dance. The lake is filled to the brim now, and discussions of water pollution and sedimentation have gone underwater as the problem is not…
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metaphorwrites · 7 months
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To Whom It May Concern #6
If you have ever poured milk from a packet, you would know how uncontrollable its flow becomes if the slit is a little big. Its whole content wants to rush into the glass as if space is scarce. Life has been flowing like milk into a glass, first slowly, and then all at once. I felt happy after getting the journalism internship. “Life was finally on track, and I was being productive.” Moments of…
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metaphorwrites · 7 months
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Night Descends in Kolkata
I walked out of a hotel on Waterloo Street at ten on Saturday night. I had gone there to report on a boxing match for the media house I work at. Tired, I walked to the street, waiting for the Uber to arrive. Two policemen were chatting over tea in the next corner, and the tea seller’s wife was washing the utensils of the day. As I looked around, the city was preparing to rest. Dogs curling up,…
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metaphorwrites · 7 months
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What's Love Got to do with it?
Zoe (played by Lily James) notes down the questions to ask Kaz (played by Shazad Latif) for her wedding documentary Love Contractually (spin-off on Love Actually) – what love means to him, what he thinks of the modern twist on arranged marriage called, “assisted marriage” and how he would feel living with a stranger after marriage. These questions which drive forward Shekhar Kapur’s film What’s…
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metaphorwrites · 7 months
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Mistaken Memories
He remembered that August night of 1947,But not what he had for dinner at eleven.Memory, a helpless pack of cards,Shuffled, number or monarch, no regards. “But that is not how it is done,You don’t teach mechanics to an engineer.”He was nine parts logic and one part fear.Staying up till two for Maradona. Today the world is a mystery,Breaking news keeps breaking every hour,Who was that who called…
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metaphorwrites · 8 months
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Book Shelves and Baudelaire
He did not like calling it an escape. But he went there. Whenever classes were cancelled, or there was a strike, or it rained heavily – he found himself lurking in the bookstore like the ghost of a cook unable to desert his beloved cutlery. That one thick book of glossy photographs of Africa was his possession in that whole area. It never moved from that corner or was never bought; its dust…
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metaphorwrites · 8 months
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Ferrying Freedom
Standing at a traffic signal in India, you will find many people knocking on your car window, selling flowers, incense sticks and digestive lozenges. Responding to each knock is often not feasible for an average Indian. The items also have a seasonal nature – fancy masks during Holi, candles during Diwali and tricolour flags towards the end of January and middle of August. I met such a boy today…
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metaphorwrites · 8 months
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On Walking the Streets of North Kolkata
Someone recently said in a lecture, “Heritage doesn’t need to be aesthetic to be valuable.” That is one word that kept ringing in my head as I walked around the streets of North Kolkata today. I had gone with a specific aim – to document the history of some regions for an academic project regarding women’s history in Bengal. I had realised while googling the nooks and corners of virtual space…
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