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I loved the classes about human geography I had in uni! can I ask what your phd research will be about? 🌱

from what i’ve been reading and studying of it, it looks like something i’ll enjoy too!

my research is going to be about how cartographers, administrators and geographers in colonial india interacted with the landscape to draw, delimit and govern borders.

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i've read some of your substack essays (love them!). as someone that likes to write as well. How do you stay motivated to write? 🫶🏻🫧

Thank you, and thank you for reading them too <3

I've tried to make a habit out of writing, even if it is just stubs. I have these in my notes app, in notebooks, and everywhere really. Some stubs turn into proper writing. I think/process things via writing, so that's what is the incentive; it's my preferred mode of communication.

That said, I haven't posted any new writing on Substack in months now. This is partly because I didn't feel like I had much to say with the kind of book reviews or essays I normally did, and I would like to write something more or something different. I have been writing of course, but this has been more to find out what kind of stuff I want to be writing. Hopefully some of these current stubs and works in progress turn into something real :)

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spent one of the season's rainiest days sipping coffee, catching up reading and making sense of old notes

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Hi! I love your blog, especially your pictures. Can I ask what phone you're using to take them? Or do you use a different camera? Thank you!

thank you!! i use my iphone and my DSLR both in a roughly equal amount.

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black coffee mornings

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(trying to) make things

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sometimes i think about whether the US govt knows piyush mishra wrote a song where the hook is 9/11, afghanistan and the war on terror

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texture

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took a vacation and spent so much time in coffee shops

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what does human geography mean?? that sounds super interesting!

it's essentially about studying how people make sense of their environment and the space around them, and following on from that, how human communities and cultures organise themselves in their space

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Bluets, Maggie Nelson

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music ask: 1, 5, 16?

A song you liked as a child

Absolutely loved this: Aa chal ke tujhe. It's a Hindi song from 1964 I think, and my earliest memories are of it playing on the cassette player at home.

5. A song you think most of your followers won’t have heard before

Fathers, Sons & Brothers by The Three Seas

16. A song that makes you think of an old (or current) crush

One of the first songs my boyfriend sent me, long before we started dating, was Gracious by Ben Howard, and the memory of that song is very strongly associated with starting to like the boy

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Hi! For the music ask game: 3, 9, and 19 🌻

3. A song you’d choose to introduce someone to your favorite genre

I actually don't know what I'd call my favourite genre. Maybe alt rock? Then it's a tie between Bros by Wolf Alice and Zombie by The Cranberries

9. A song in a language you don’t speak

Bengali: Amar Sopno Tumi, and Dutch: Ongeveer by Eefje de Visser

13. A song by a performer you’ve seen live

November Rain by Guns N' Roses

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10 and 11 ✨

10. A song that makes you feel relaxed

Nica Libres at Dusk by Ben Howard

11. A song that makes you dance

I don't really dance because I'm extremely bad at it, but Little of Your Love by HAIM when I'm alone

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hiiii 1,9,13 for the game :))

A song you liked as a child

Absolutely loved this: Aa chal ke tujhe. It's a Hindi song from 1964 I think, and my earliest memories are of it playing on the cassette player at home.

9. A song in a language you don’t speak

Bengali: Amar Sopno Tumi, and Dutch: Ongeveer by Eefje de Visser

13. A song by a performer you’ve seen live

November Rain by Guns N' Roses

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