Tag: language
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Gare du Nord
… I needed a different language: a language that was a place of affection and reflection. – Antonio Tabucchi – If there is one quote that summarises my life, then it is this. There may be others too but I picked this one from Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel In altre parole that I am now reading.…
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Say It In Pulaar
The nightly curfew ends at six in the morning and soon after that, every day, I hear a young guy recite the Koran out loud and walk past the house on his way to… where? It’s almost as if he were “disinfecting” the town with his voice, walking on the empty streets at this hour,…
J.K. Pikkujämsä 