Reflections on learning Portuguese (Reflexões Sobre Aprender Portuguese)
I am now at the fag end of my stay in Lisbon. I arrived here towards the end of July, after much running around for a visa. I began my intensive Portuguese cour...
Category: Diary
Country with anger issues
Often, I tweet random thoughts and they get shared and liked on twitter in the most unexpected ways. Initially, I used to further engage and clarify my position...
Hello from Lisbon
Hello from Lisbon! I have been camping here since August sharpening my Portuguese skills. My arrival here was due towards end of June. However, my visa got dela...
पोर्तुगीज आफ्रिका आणि आफ्रिकेतील गोमंतकीय समाज
सुएला ब्रेव्हरमन महिन्याकाठी किती खळबळजनक विधानं करते त्याचा हिशेब ठेवणं आता अशक्य झालं आहे. हा लेख लिहिण्यापर्यंत ‘होमलेसनेस हा एक लाइफस्टाइल चॉईस आहे...
Making tech ethical – a lost cause?
I quit Computer Science for good in 2014. Not for any ethical reasons. The college I was enrolled in to pursue my post-graduate degree made me ask some basic qu...
Hello from Philadelphia
It has been two months since I arrived in Philadelphia, and I have wanted to resume regular blogging about my time here. Not to ‘create content’ or ...
The burden of humility
In the past two days, I have read two brilliant pieces of writing, Divya Malhari’s blog post on ‘A God of Small Things’ and Prof Suryakant Waghmore’s essay on H...
On a digital detox
I have been contemplating going on a digital detox and cutting down on my social media use off lately. I am compulsively glued to my phone, iPad, and Macbook, a...
Fake news is a theatrical problem
An entire community across the country was demonised based on doctored clips, fake news and hate speech. This is not new and people do not seem to get tired of ...
The perpetual Muslim angle to mob lynching
The discourse around the mob lynching in Palghar has been muddied right from blaming it on Muslims, calling it a Communist conspiracy to its degradation into an...