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Anurag Minus Verma
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Jun 6, 2022

What to do with the finger bowl?

I remember that in our small town a new deluxe restaurant opened in 1999. Going to restaurants was a very new concept back then. Families started pilgrimaging to the restaurant and ate daal fry served in a copper bucket as the melancholic old Hindi instrumental music about lost love played…

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What to do with the finger bowl?
What to do with the finger bowl?

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Sep 2, 2021

ANURAG MINUS VERMA PODCAST EPISODE 10

Below is the transcription of Anurag Minus Verma Podcast, Episode 10 with Buffalo Intellectual . This podcast was transcribed by Mudit Vyas. Listen to the podcast on Spotify or apple podcast. AMV: Welcome to the Anurag Minus Verma Podcast. Today we have with us a guest who stays anonymous online…

Anurag Minus Verma

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ANURAG MINUS VERMA PODCAST EPISODE 10
ANURAG MINUS VERMA PODCAST EPISODE 10
Anurag Minus Verma

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Mar 26, 2021

Thoughts on living and dying for no reason.

Day when someone disappeared It was around nine in the night that the news of the death of my grandmother broke as we were about to finish dinner. There is a certain period between bad news and its impacted grief. In that state one prepares themselves to respond to unexpected…

Short Story

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Thoughts on living and dying for no reason.
Thoughts on living and dying for no reason.
Short Story

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Sep 23, 2020

Political Orgasm

Political Orgasm Short Story by Anurag Minus Verma She is silently nodding now at a young man with grey, curly hair and an intellectually fatigued face; the kind generally found in men who have thrust intellectualism upon themselves via their righteous Facebook posts and now they feel they have to…

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Political Orgasm
Political Orgasm

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Jun 5, 2020

The real reason why desi celebs or even Savarana intellectuals will never say “Dalit lives matters”.

Or why Dalits need to seize the pop culture. — American cities are exploding. For long they have tried to subdue it, but now the frustration and anger has reached the tipping point and is oozing out on the street. …

Dalits

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The real reason why desi celebs or even Savarana intellectuals will never say “Dalit lives…
The real reason why desi celebs or even Savarana intellectuals will never say “Dalit lives…
Dalits

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May 28, 2020

The strange and gorgeous walls of Shekhawati Havelis.

Till now you might have seen Shekhawati Havelis without even noticing that you have seen Shekhawati Haveli. Perhaps in movies or most probably on Instagram where some beautiful models are posing on the background of grungy walls of these old buildings.

Mandawa

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The strange and gorgeous walls of Shekhawati Havelis.
The strange and gorgeous walls of Shekhawati Havelis.
Mandawa

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Apr 25, 2020

Political Orgasm

Excerpt from the book I love you but only on weekends She is silently nodding now at a young man with grey, curly hair and an intellectually fatigued face; the kind generally found in men who have thrust intellectualism upon themselves via their righteous Facebook posts and now they feel…

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Political Orgasm
Political Orgasm

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Apr 13, 2020

Time to destroy the stereotypes about Dalit occupations

Ignorance of Indians about the top-notch expertise of Dalits Recently many of us have seen/read news about few Indians thanking sanitation workers (read Dalits) by flowers for combating the corona pandemic on streets. Such rare gestures look pleasant but this doesn’t change the fact that these are mere gestures. It…

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Time to destroy the stereotypes about Dalit occupations
Time to destroy the stereotypes about Dalit occupations

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Apr 13, 2020

A city robbed of its music

A poem on corona lockdown by Anurag Minus Verma Parks empty, deserted even by the best of lovers, cars on the parking lot standing, finally at ease, like homeless men lounging on the beach. Nothing moves on the road, Streets and buildings like still photographs Birds gliding over the city, …

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A city robbed of its music
A city robbed of its music

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Apr 6, 2020

Philosophy and genre politics behind the acid western film of Jim Jarmusch

by Anurag Minus Verma “Nothing is original. There are a limited number of stories to tell. But there is an unlimited number of ways to tell those same stories. I am more interested in forms.“ -Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch’s name is not something which one can be associated with the…

Jim Jarmusch

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Philosophy and genre politics behind the acid western film of Jim Jarmusch
Philosophy and genre politics behind the acid western film of Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch

8 min read

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