nancygandhi
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When the Himalayan wind starts blowing this way, I wrap my arms around myself knowing that this is the same wind that has touched your body.
11:51 PM Nov 14th
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You will see your reflection in the clear water of the River Gambhira, Clear as her heart. With fishes leaping like quick sidelong glances.
11:49 PM Nov 14th
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"Her eyes swollen by ceaseless crying, her face, partially covered by long dark hair, cupped in her hands,she looks like a miserable moon."
11:46 PM Nov 14th
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Re-reading Kalidas' beautiful Meghdoot, the Cloud Messenger - very suitable for the rainy season.
11:46 PM Nov 14th
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Oh, this is weird: Americans ice dancing to a Bollywood medley
9:55 PM Nov 14th
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The main thing was to drive, to feel the car's forward movement, to zig & zag around vehicles pedestrians potholes, forgetting everything.
9:35 PM Nov 14th
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws.
8:43 PM Nov 13th
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My eyes were stabbed awake by a strip of sunlight coming through a gap in the curtains. The rain has passed.
9:08 PM Nov 11th
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frantic hammering. Then it began again. At first I was all like, Oh rain! Romance, peacocks dancing, me eating bhajia. But that's over now.
11:49 PM Nov 9th
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It's been raining for days. Pouring, actually. Pounding, in fact. Just now, a cessation, silence filled with loud birdsong and...
11:47 PM Nov 9th
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@ Tarla Dalal is usually reliable -- bisi bele huli anna
8:46 PM Nov 9th
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in reply to kitabet
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Found poem for Remembrance Day, by Andrew Motion
10:13 PM Nov 6th
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@ Happy anniversary!
9:03 AM Nov 5th
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in reply to Morning_Porch
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Shahid translating Faiz: "Bolt your doors, Sad heart! Put out the candles, break all cups of wine. No one, now no one will ever return."
12:23 AM Nov 5th
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Agha Shahid Ali, Homage to Faiz Ahmed Faiz: "...Urdu a silhouette traced by the voices of singers..."
12:15 AM Nov 5th
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The Onion: Congress Approves $500 Billion For Monument To Human Folly
7:51 PM Nov 4th
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Cliché alert to self: Don't you dare use the word 'fecundity' here. Or 'rot', for that matter.
7:17 PM Nov 4th
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The monsoon has come. Earth and air are swollen.
7:15 PM Nov 4th
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RT @ Report: PIA to start daily flights between the President's House and Dubai International Airport.
8:44 PM Oct 30th
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His inconsistency hurt the sentiments of millions. I ground my teeth. A huge crash of lightning and thunder, & the TV went black. Good.
8:47 PM Oct 29th
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