There are limits, disciplinary or otherwise, to how legal knowledge is perceived and communicated outside—to people and structures that do not have compatible receptors for receiving and processing such knowledge. The lack of familiarity with the tools of knowledge production and the norms of functioning compounds the difficulties of perception and communication. By these, I …
Tag Archives: Australia
Remembrance Translation
These days, there is hardly any time to write things that are unrelated to work. The joys of translating an entire novel ended abruptly after the first chapter of my thesis. Frankly, I had no hopes of keeping up that habit. Both time and worlds seem to shrink at an incredible pace these days. Yet, …
Gum Trees are My Friends
My words have wings and a mind of their own. They sing when the skies are blue and when the breeze filters through the eucalyptus leaves. Unfortunately, they turned their back on me when I returned home to Cambridge. That explains a long silence in this space – I was reckoning means to deal with …
The Fire and The Bird
Au revoir, Australia! We are at the end of this ten-week long journey. I am writing this as I wait at Sydney airport for my flight back home. I should very much resent the idea of not having to write about the land I love so much anymore. The Canberra that I had grown to …
The Road Vanishes
I have now seen this land and its creatures ridden down by the three horsemen of the apocalypse. I am not very inclined to wait for the fourth. But I am curious to know what would that be – what’s left really? Fire, smoke, hail, and biblical plague? Locusts? Zeus’ swords? It’s a pity that …
Between the Heaven and the Earth, We Live in the Clouds – Fieldnotes, Week 7
I have stayed away from writing for a while. Since the country had slumped into an extended or even a permanent, state of mourning, I could barely get myself to think or write anything. Not to mention, it is very debilitating to wake into a dull orange glow of smoke covered city, where one must …
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Field Notes: Week 2
Have you ever heard an Australian Raven? If you haven’t, good on you. It is precisely the cries of someone in his death throes. I feel startled every time I hear it even after knowing exactly what to expect from that species. Right now, a couple of noisy miners are haranguing the Ravens and I …
Field Notes: Week 1
Frankly, I do not think my field notes have to be this sparse. Had I not been jetlagged for a good part of the week and then, suddenly struck by a very random Hay fever, I think I would have had a lot more to say each day. I am sitting inside my quiet apartment, …
Defiant Ecologies 