Everyone is bawling their eyes out after Everything Everywhere All at Once (EEAO) swept the 95th Oscars, winning 7 out of 11 nominations. And with such heartwarming speeches by the winners, the bawling is all worth it. When a movie touches your heart, it unfolds in layers long after the first encounter on screen. All…
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I wasn’t able to write every day. Tihar could have been an excuse, but Tihar could have been an inspiration too. Writing about places was hard. I stood there, surrounded by an imaginary aura, and I realized I lacked all the words to describe the lives running around me and in me. I have begun…
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Theme #2: Colorsipration The theme for the second set of 10 days in 100 Days of Poetry was about getting inspired by colors, thus the name colorspiration. I was surfing unique color names on the internet when I saw many new ways to say yellow, orange, blue, and pink; like words reserved for special occasions,…
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Every Dashain I write a reminiscent note,one that smells of nostalgia;the days that were and thus can never again be. This Dashain I wanted to writeanything but nostalgia,but when the October sun struckboth cold and warm,shivery and humid at the same timeit ushered an unnamed feeling. Something happens to the citywhen it gets silentlike an…
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If there is one silver lining of the pandemic, it has to be the shift in virtual learning. While platforms like Zoom were available long before COVID-19 hit us, the pandemic forced us to see virtual learning in a new light. We realized that productive virtual learning is possible. While there certainly are challenges, opportunities…
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I first encountered Great Expectations by Charles Dickens as a kid – a birthday gift. I read the children’s version that had the plot covered, but the rich language that belonged to Dickens was missing. And that was just what I fell in love with when I read the book for the second time, not…
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