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Doer of disparate things. Author. Academic. Editor. Elchi of Athena | Earlier: @thequint @WIONews @orfonline @UnivOfDelhi
Feb 13, 2023 27 tweets 5 min read
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Because it’s #ValentinesDay (as if you can miss it given all the decorations around the corner), here’s my list of favourite quotes on #love and all that. Different moods, languages, cultures, periods, genres. Image 1. “So I go from being half in love with you, and wanting you to be with me always, and known everything about me, to the extreme of wildness and aloofness.”
~ Virginia Woolf’s letter to her boyfriend (later husband) Leonard Woolf, May 1, 1912
Jun 10, 2021 9 tweets 4 min read
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How Delhi’s rich & entitled flout laws to grab public spaces, even right under the nose of CM @ArvindKejriwal & Lt Gov.
Today I was stopped from walking in my own neighbourhood by the pvt security guards employed by an Ex MP MM Agrawal.
They shut the iron gate on my face+ +that has been put ILLEGALLY to blockade off the street where Mr Agrawal’s house is. When I insisted on walking on that street, public space, the guards at the illegal gate told me to talk to another guard named Guddu, who came out of Mr Agrawal’s house. “Aap yahan allowed nahi”+