Category: Beauty
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A Purple Car In Melbourne
Recently I saw a purple BMW and the thought of this purple BMW in the Melbourne traffic stayed with me. It was a disruption. The purple was a purple without a metallic shine. It looked like Hobby the Turkish chocolate my father bought for me each time I visited my uncle’s shop together with him…
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Love & Desire
We always fall in love without knowing what it was that made us fall in love in the first place. It could be a first thought that passed through our mind that gave us a pleasant feeling. Have you ever had this when you met someone and you thought what a nice hair they have,…
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The Epic Tale of Exile
(The poetry fragments are by Forough Farokhzad. This essay is the introduction of something I was developing and presented at a conference in Melbourne in 2019.) My talk today is a continuation from what I was developing last year aboutmy city. Today I will continue to speak about the bodies that inhibit othercities. Exile is…
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A City’s Tale – A Tribute to Forough
(This essay contains fragments from a talk I presented at a symposium in Melbourne in Aug 2018.) PART 2 of the talk. Today, I open my talk with an extract of a poem by Forough Farokhzad, my presentation today is about her sense of longing in her poetry. She unabashedly put forth her uncensored words…