Monthly Archives: February 2022

While reading “Hindustan Is a Dream,” the main thing that stood out to me was the use of poems to accommodate the text. The poems, as well as anecdotes and quotes, add to the more objective narrative of the idea … Continue reading →

I like to write my blogs as I’m reading so if it ever seems like I’ m missing stuff that’s why. Anyways with that being said, starting with Munchinson chapter five, already having been present in my field of study … Continue reading →

“Sharing a Room with Sparrows” interestingly focuses on time. I think it is especially interesting how Taneja noticed the switch between present, past tense, and future subjunctive, which is an really interesting perspective. I also have mixed feelings about the … Continue reading →

The two readings from Taneja this week were very captivating to me personally, particularly because they offered knowledge and perspective on a time in history that I didn’t know much about. The first reading provided interesting theological frameworks and historical … Continue reading →

I loved this week’s reading, particularly Taneja’s “Sharing a room with sparrows: Maulana Azad and Muslim ecological thought.” I think this is my favorite reading so far other than the reading about the mushrooms. The connections that were made between … Continue reading →

In Hindustan is a Dream, Tanajea discusses the experience of Muslims living as a religious minority in India through three different mediums: the life and poetry of Juan Elia, a critique of Hindu nationalism by Maukana Abdul Hameed Nomani, and … Continue reading →

I thoroughly enjoyed the readings for this week, in particular Anand Taneja’s “Sharing a room with sparrows” and his characterization of and elaboration on the “ethics of the garden” (230). Azad’s readings elucidate a new way of defining our relationship … Continue reading →

I really love the “ethics of the garden” connection and framework that Taneja employs throughout the Sharing a Room with Sparrows piece. It reminds me of some Amazonian (and some Andean) Ecuadorian Kichwa ways of thinking about the world. Sumak … Continue reading →

Dr. Anand Vivek Taneja beautifully argues how the renewed interest of Hindustan is indicative of residents’ hope of India as the potential for Muslim belonging in a future India. Although contemporaneously associated as a Muslim North Indian practice, the historical use … Continue reading →

As I read ““Hindustan Is a Dream”: Urdu Poetry and the Political Theology of Intimacy”, which revolves around poetic attempts to resist exclusionary practices against Muslims in India, I found myself following the portrayal of women throughout the text and … Continue reading →

What I thought most interesting about this reading was the concept that the perception of time changes and adjusts based on a person’s situation and the dynamics of their immediate world. Taneja writes about Azad’s experience spending time with sparrows … Continue reading →

   Reading “Sharing a Room with Sparrows” was particularly impactful because of the way Taneja connects Azad’s imprisonment to our shared experience of the pandemic. The “spiritual journey” that Azad takes on alongside the sparrows is a deeply convicting reflection … Continue reading →

The overarching framework and discussion of the liberal or “late liberal” made me think a lot about our current political situation, with Black voters largely winning Joe Biden his white house seat while he now has done little to nothing … Continue reading →

Shange’s description of a Spanish class with a teacher who knows all of the techniques and strategies to create a classroom environment that is anti anti-Black is something that stuck out to me from the readings this week. I would … Continue reading →

I found the Bernard reading to be very interesting in terms of methods. The activities of listing things in a category and picking one option out of three do not seem to mean much but researchers have been able to … Continue reading →