Ongoing Projects
I figured that this space might be useful in cataloging the stuff I am working on, the progress I make, and any interesting, bizarre information that I might come across. Mostly for my own reference, really.
Redeeming the Confessant
I think this article was initially meant to focus on the affective geographies of street food pantries—coffee, bagels with blobs of cream cheese, and, on some days, samplings of Haleem, Chicken, or Mutton Kebabs sold from kiosks basking in their (seasonal) elite authenticity at Zakaria's iftar bazaar. Or perhaps, on the many afterlives (and deaths?) of Roland Barthes' A Lovers Discourse floating on the summertime river, abandoned on my favourite writing table, beside empty takeout boxes, and papers on Arabic and Persian metres. My lover fascinates me with stories of a (now) lost monsoonal in Dhaka- the baking of bátasá and Sandesh by women in frayed cotton sarees, silently inherited (and discreetly shared) culinary codes, worn wooden spoons, and the time-placeness of the sensory home. I follow the contours of her story and find myself caught up in the strange intimacies of an unfamiliar quotidian, the transactional undercurrents of he...
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