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Prayers in solidarity with nurses, doctors, other essential workers and families coping with the ghastly turn the pandemic has taken in India. To citizens supporting workers and communities - thank you šš¼ The crisis will blow over and we will all prevail; together and soon.
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"At-one-ment" - Shakespeare's luminous appeal that transcends all difference. SGreenblatt: '#Shakespeare in #Tehran' nybooks.com/articles/archiveā¦
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Fitzgerald to Salami - the happy joy when arcs bend to connect in a circle. Ali Salami, a professor of Shakespeare at the Uni of Tehran, has translated most of the Shakespearean corpus into Farsi. The wonderful @FolgerLibrary has a copy and an interview shakespeareandbeyond.folger.ā¦
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I could think Mourid Barghouti now flies with stars. But in that too is the anachronism of displacement. Those whose feet still trod the earth say the departed enjoin the stars. Feet should know the belonging, the fit, with a land, before life climbs to the unbelonging of stars
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Mourid Barghouti. Palestinian poet. 1944-2021. His feet found their belonging in every human heart that was fortunate to read him.
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Mourid Barghouti. Palestinian poet extraordinaire. I first read him many years back in his exquisite book āI Saw Ramallahā. After all this time; I walked his roads again today.
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A poet who fiercely guarded the independence of his mind, never allowed it to be used by another, never sought the easy roads; here is that poet reacting to the abomination of the wall:
"It will be demolished by our astonishment at its existence"
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16 Jan 2021
So this needs no spotlight but I'm giving it one anyway a year since @rrobinson72 won the T.S Eliot prize. Roger's real genius is that he makes it look effortless when really that ease & apparent simplicity is hard won. I tried to chose a different poem but had to go with Grace..
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23 Jan 2021
Zareena Begum lived at Hatha Khuda Baksh area in Old Fatehganj in Lucknow. An old harmonium, a tabla and some old pages and diaries with lyrics in Urdu were her companions in her final days. She passed away in 2018, she was a disciple of Begum Akthar. youtube.com/watch?v=HK4xQkhuā¦
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16 Jan 2021
Delhi: A sanitation worker becomes the first person to receive COVID-19 vaccine jab at AIIMS. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan is also present. (ANI)
Track #Covid19 latest updates here bit.ly/3qCHv5F
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And a roll-out of a million vaccines in six days.
In the new world we call it diplomacy. There was an older world with gentler giants whose roots stretched far. This is more than diplomacy,. It is a mater familias remembrance; rekindling memories in old roots #mybelovedland
22 Jan 2021
India is giving away millions of free vaccine doses to Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar and Seychelles. The result is a form of vaccine diplomacy that appears to be unlike any other in the world. washingtonpost.com/world/asiā¦
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Emm retweeted
22 Jan 2021
India is giving away millions of free vaccine doses to Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar and Seychelles. The result is a form of vaccine diplomacy that appears to be unlike any other in the world. washingtonpost.com/world/asiā¦
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20 Jan 2021
My profound gratitude to PM @narendramodi and people of India for gifting COVID-19 vaccines despite their own pressing needs. This comes at a critical time in our fight against the COVID pandemic, and bears testimony to the strong friendship between our two countries and peoples.
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Poets once knew the songs to sing to nations. The great American poet, Robert Frost was one such. āIn three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes onā.
On living with difference, with discipline, regard and in the presence of possibility: āMending Wallā.
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It took a poet after all.
A new voice - a new and authentic voice - lifts a new rising:
"Victory wonāt lie in the blade, but in all the bridges weāve made. That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb, if only we dare."
Bravo @TheAmandaGorman, Bravo!
A phenomenal physician who epitomized the core values of medicine. Lived her principles, loved the science and taught both. One whose very memory was enough to stoke guilt and make everyone work a little harder for that day. A grand and blessed life. Thank you for much, Maāam šš¼
19 Jan 2021
Senior oncologist and chairperson of the Adyar Cancer Institute #VShanta died early on Tuesday morning.
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Undertaker bees sniff out comrades that have passed on; not by what they emit, but by what they do not. They then act as pallbearers and gently cart them away. Extraordinary. sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/ā¦
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17 Jan 2021
Van Gogh's Starry Night, painted in an insane asylum, accurately models a mystery of physics pst.cr/j6Dr3
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YinMn blue, the first inorganic blue to be discovered in 200 yrs (the last was Cobalt Blue,1802), goes commercial. Nor reported here: Mas Subramanian, the scientist who holds the patent, has a newer blue- 'Hibonite blue'. Art/w YinMn blue- Michael Rothman
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Indigo is important for much in Indian history. But since we are on etymology too, one involves its original name Neel. Neel Darpan was a play written in 19th CE Bengal by playwright Dinabandu Mitra. It told of exploitation in the Indigo plantations & provoked the Neel Satyagraha
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