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Our little stupid conversation means more to me than you think.
2023.01.26 // 18:03Â reading for class (from leslie m. alexanderâs african or american) about a black neighborhood that was destroyed to build central park
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What am I exactly afraid of?
second week of June and yesterday it rained for the first time when i had gone for an evening walk and got drenched in rain, surprisingly almost everyone pulled out their umbrellas and raincoats and just few children played around, capturing moments on their cellphones. I returned back home with a smile reminiscing about all my moments of rainy days, but as soon as I changed into a warm set of clothes and made some coffee i found uncertainty waving at me through the glass window. Ofcourse i let it in and i began wondering how everybody has a script to life. For eg- back there, immediately everybody was prepared with umbrellas and raincoats and i wasn't, college will reopen on Monday and all my classmates have already covered half of the syllabus while i am still stuck on the first chapter of economics, what did i do all this time? Waited for my so called art of writing to return back? I tried, i really tried this time.
I searched for prompts on every site possible, read thousands of poems on Pinterest, read the dictionary, forced myself to describe events of my life on my diary, and yet i couldn't complete any of my notes. I tried keeping my mind away from poems, but somehow, they make me feel like a bad person now, like a lawyer who couldn't serve justice to their client, i feel the guilt of a parent who couldn't spent quality time with their child.
Anyway, apart from this, i feel under prepared all the time, it's like life is moving on, people are doing exactly what they're supposed to do and i am not even walking or moving , not even at a slow pace. I am just here, watching clouds take different shapes, passing vehicles, observing people, envying birds flying high into the sky, reading umpteen poems, sleeping and staring at my textbooks.
What exactly am i afraid of?
⢠My current inability to write or my inability to follow the script of life?
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Level 10 / Lesson 7: -ëëźęł (ě)
ěë íě¸ě! Hey everyone! In this lesson, weâre going to learn about -ëëźęł ě, a sentence ending that will make your Korean sound very natural! Itâs used for expressing surprise at something you experienced. Letâs start!
What is -ëëźęł (ě)?Â
-ëëźęł (ě) is a sentence ending that is always in the past tense. Hereâs a formula:
[verb / adjective stem] + ëëźęł (ě)Â
Notice how you donât have to attach -ě/ě, even though this structure is always used when talking about the past tense â just attach it to the regular verb stem!
-ëëźęł (ě) is used for speaking from your own personal experience. Itâs usually used when youâre recalling something that happened, and youâre detailing what you saw/heard/experienced. There can also be a slight nuance of surprise when using -ëëźęł (ě) as well. Letâs see some examples!
ěşëŚŹíŹëěě ę° ë´¤ëë° ë ě¨ę° ěě˛ëę˛ ě˘ëëźęł ě. = I went to California, and the weather was really nice.
Here, youâre talking about the time that you went to California; based on your own personal experience in California, you noticed that the weather is really nice. A more natural translation of this, in my opinion, would be âI went to California and realized that the weather is really niceâ or âI went to California and recall that the weather was really nice.â
A note about tense â this could translate to âthe weather is really niceâ or âthe weather was really nice.â You could either be talking about the weather during the particular time that you visited, or you could be speaking more generally about California weather based on what you learned from visiting, if that makes sense. Either way, youâre talking about your past experience with something.
BTS ě˝ěí¸ í°ěźě ě°žěëë° ëę˛ ëšě¸ëëźęł ě. = I was looking for BTS tickets, and I saw that they were really expensive. / I was looking for BTS tickets, and I realized that theyâre really expensive.
Again, youâre speaking from your own experience of searching for BTS tickets. Thereâs also a hint of surprise, like âI realized, wow, theyâre really expensive.â
ě§ë í기ě 미ě ëśíě ë´¤ëë° ěę°ëł´ë¤ ě˝ëëźęł ě. = I took calculus last semester and it was easier than I thought.
꡸ ěŹëě 돴ěěëł´ě´ě§ë§ ě§ě§ ě°Šíëëźęł ě. = He looks scary, but heâs really kind.
This would imply that you have met this person before and realized that he is actually kinder than he looks.
A Note about Formality
If you want to speak formally, you could just end your sentence with -ëëźęł ě. If you want to speak informally, you could drop the -ě and end it with -ëëźęł . You might also hear sentences ending with -ëëź, which is also very informal, and gives a greater nuance of surprise than -ëëźęł (ě) â itâs a little stronger.Â
Thatâs about all for this lesson! Hope it was helpful! See you next time! ë¤ěě ë´ě!
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Essays
Hereâs a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; Iâve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love
also quick note: some of these links, especially the ones that are from books/anthologies redirect you to libgen or scihub, and if that doesnât work for you, do message me; Iâd be happy to send them across!
Literature + Writing
Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag
The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul*
Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux*
A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi
How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik
Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone
Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman
Lost in Translation: What the First Line of âThe Strangerâ Should Be - Ryan Bloom
The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote*
The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita CatalĂŁo Guedes
Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman*
Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan*
Why I Write - George Orwell*
Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland*
Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)
Looking at War - Susan Sontag*
Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz
Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker
The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews
In Platoâs Cave - Susan Sontag*
On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*
On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*
Kalighat Paintings  - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri
Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past -Â MaĂŤl Renouard
Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel
Cities
Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash
Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo*
Timurâs Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur
The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall*
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbaiâs iconic railway station - Srinath Perur
From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective - Â Andrew Harris
The Limits of âWhite Townâ in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay
The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel
Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan
A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp
The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne
The Nowhere City - Amos Elon*
The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour
Philosophy
The trolley problem problem - James Wilson
A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram
Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls*
Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer
The Discomfort Youâre Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato*
The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape
If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood
Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart
The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae*
The Science of âMuddling Throughâ - Charles Lindblom*
History
The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan
The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore*
From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert*
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson*
All By Myself - Martha Bailey*
The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder
The sea/ocean
Rim of Life - Manu Pillai
Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history â above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery
âPiracyâ, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History)*
The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History)*
Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and âPirateâ States - Roxani Eleni Margariti
Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*
Assorted ones on India
A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *
Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash
Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee
Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu
The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar*
Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta
Our worldview is Delhi based*
Sports (youâll have to excuse the fact that itâs only cricket but what can i say, iâm indian)
âMassa Day Done:â Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman*
Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900â70 - Albert Grundlingh
When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger
Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha*
Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha
MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way*
Music
Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. AraĂşjo
Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder
The 1975 - âNotes On a Conditional Formâ review - Dan Stubbs*
Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield*
How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield
Concert for Bangladesh
From âHelp!â to âHelping out a Friendâ: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha ChristiansenÂ
Gender
Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane
The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin
Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu*
Womenâs Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe
Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman*
Womenâs health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack
Food
How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)
Colonialismâs effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee
Tracing Europeâs influence on Indiaâs culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu
Chicken Kiev: the worldâs most contested ready-meal*
From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad*
The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin*
How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream*
Pav from the Nau
A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes
Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)
Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)
Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter)*
Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkienâs Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua
The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales)*
Tolkienâs Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales)*
Travel
The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism
Chronicles of a Writerâs 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan
On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose
On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas*
More random assorted ones
The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries)*
In El Salvador - Joan Didion
Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee
Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell
Politics and the English Language - George Orwell*
What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard*
The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith
Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia*
Credibility and Mystery - John Berger
happy reading :)
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11.4.20 | day 66/100 of productivity | so it is an absolutely roller coaster time in history to be an american citizen, isnât it? today i woke up at 9 am fearing for my life, watched two states, one of which i am from and have family there, make an enormously critical decision by a narrow margin, went to virtual lab, and then proceeded to write a 10 page paper about polymerization in about 4 hours. the only reason i am in fact alive is because i listened to seventeen comfort songs the entire day
đś i am listening to: habit, seventeen

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An Overview of Note-Taking Styles
Note-taking is one of the most essential skills a student should master. It allows you to record and review information to be used in the future. But whatâs the best way to do so? Hereâs an overview of note-taking styles that can help you maximize your learning!
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