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Keshav Bansal (he/him)

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‘I took a breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.’ // Reader/Student @University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi National Open University // Literary/Cultural Studies | South Asian Languages/Histories

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reading wisdom, getting wise 😁🤓😋 #TBR

13.10.2025 02:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reading Independence 🇮🇳 ✊🏽

15.08.2025 14:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"...At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom."

~ Jawaharlal Nehru, August 15, 1947

🇮🇳 ✊🏽 ✌🏽

15.08.2025 14:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Surdas #सूरदास ❤️

30.07.2025 17:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bullhe Shah // Bhagat Singh // Faiz Ahmed Faiz

#ReadingInquilab 📖+✊🏽=🔥

22.07.2025 12:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#TBR 🤓😋🤗

08.07.2025 07:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Heart Lamp @BanuMushtaq 🤓😋🤗 #TBR

28.06.2025 09:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Came across this at a kabaadi wale ki dukaan and brought it home for a princely sum of ₹ 10 after some haggling. 😁🤓😋🤗

17.06.2025 08:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#TBR 🤓😋🤗

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Book haul... 🤓😋🤗

30.05.2025 19:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An Introduction to Indian Literary Theory - Course

📚 An Introduction to Indian Literary Theory

🎓 Prof. Sreenath V.S, IIT Madras

🗓️ Mon, Jul 21 - Fri, Sep 12 2025

🔗 onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_hs132/...

16.05.2025 15:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Flowers only… and the sunlight coloured May. 🌹+ ☀️ = ❤️

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“…wasted the brilliant first of May… can’t read, & can’t write, & can’t think.”

~ Virginia Woolf, May 1, 1930

🙄😒😞😶

02.05.2025 02:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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I'm Sherlock'ed 🧐 ❤️
#TBR

01.05.2025 09:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#thekashmirsyllabus #thekashmirsyllabus Revised February 4, 2020 COURSE DESCRIPTION #TheKashmirSyllabus compiles a list of sources for teaching and learning about Kashmir. It foregrounds voices, histories, and aspirat...

#thekashmirsyllabus

A comprehensive teaching and learning resource on #Kashmir.

Academic scholarship, literature, memoirs, journalistic pieces, poetry, and art.

Presenting the voices, histories, struggles, and aspirations of the Kashmiri people.

🔗 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

25.04.2025 15:10 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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#Kashmir

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I like my body when it’s with your body 🫦🔥

27.03.2025 07:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Márquez 🫶🏽

16.03.2025 15:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was not witches who burned.
It was women.

Women who were seen as
Too beautiful
Too outspoken
Had too much water in the well (yes, seriously)
Too loud
Too quiet
Women who danced,
Women who sang
or anything else, really.

It was not witches who burned.
It was women.

— Fia Forsström

#Holika

13.03.2025 12:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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~ Franz Kafka, The Diaries 😞😔😣😖

11.03.2025 16:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#TBR ♀️+📖=🔥

08.03.2025 13:35 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The particular poem in this post has become an anthem of the feminist movement and is one of the most celebrated pieces of poetry in modern Urdu literature.

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Her autobiography, 'Buri Aurat Ki Katha' (The Story of a Bad Woman), is not just the autobiography of a poet but the story of a whole generation of life as South Asian women.

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Kishwar Naheed is one of the most prominent feminist poets in Urdu. She has a huge corpus to her credit, starting with her now classic first collection 'Lab e Goya' (Speaking Lips) which was published in 1968.

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On Women's Day, the iconic feminist poem ‘Hum Gunahgar Aurtein’ by Kishwar Naheed.

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Indeed.

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4. Marathi: onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_lg30/p...

5. Odia: onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_lg31/p...

6. Punjabi: onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_lg34/p...

We encourage you to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to learn a new language.

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Links for Enrolment:

1. Bengali: onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_lg35/p...

2. Kannada: onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_lg33/p...

3. Malayalam: onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_lg32/p...

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Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Open University, offers Online Basic Courses in Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, and Punjabi.

Duration: 12 Weeks

Credit Point: 4

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