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Week 7 readings
This week’s reading is arguably among my favorites so far. One of the issues that concerned me with previous readings is the accessibility of those materials. In other words, despite the valuable insights carried within those texts, the texts’ format … Continue reading
Week 6
While reading “Hindustan is a dream” I thought about how different words can be. How in this case, so many beautiful words can garner so much attention and praise, and at the same time, the words of those in power … Continue reading
Anthropology and Multi-Disciplinary Analysis
One of the main things that drew me to the field of anthropology is its truly holistic nature. I think of anthropology as the study of existence since humans have the privilege of creating the narratives by which we understand … Continue reading
Week 6
This week’s ethnographic readings really drew me in and made me interested in this subject in a way I had never thought about before. I have always been someone who really loves and enjoys literature but hadn’t really thought about … Continue reading
Week 6
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
Blog V
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
Living in the Never-Settling Current [Feb. 20]
“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
Week 6: Urdu Poetry, Protest, & Religious Discrimination
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
Week 6 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
Week 6: Taneja Readings
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
Week 6: Reconstruction of our Ecological and Social Relationships
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
Birds, Temporality, & Interconnectivity
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
Week 6: Urdu Poetry, Protest, and Time
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
Gender, Watan, Garden metaphor
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
Space and Time in “Sharing a Room with Sparrows”
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
February 20: Confinement, Sparrows and Discrimination
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