Dreams have to be deeply sheltered Dreams make the scaffolding of the future Energy of those early morning ruminations Dreams disappear Reappear as material reality Dreams are the josh of life

In the depths Clarity emerges Like a sharp beam That projects into the future

Sharjah based Egyptian Architectural Researcher Reem Khorshed, who Studies Modernity and influence of Egyptian experts in the education and Infrastructure sector development in the Khaleej/Gulf. She spoke at the uber cultural Art Jameel in Dubai. She digs archives and Arabic media sources and masterplan documents to shape her research journey towards understanding the trajectory of … More Understanding Egyptian Soft Power in the Khaleej

Life is lived Somewhere between Saturation of quotidian micro violence And the dreams I seek Liberation in the thoughts In the emptyness of the dawn mind

I recently been having interesting conversations recently about the idea of Home for the second generation in the Gulf. We carry passports inherited from our parents and a place we grew up to knowing as home. The place however depends on us holding particular jobs linked to visas and thus makes the home experience complicated. … More Bayt and Belonging

As a second generation Indian Citizen in the Gulf, with a substantial part of my life also lived in SE Asia, one tries to manufacture myths in the head such as Global Citizen, NRI, Passport Country, Migrant among a slew of vocabulary which one tries to mask the frailties of everyday experiences and also to … More The Migrant Plate

I first met, Mukul- a well groomed, almost metrosexual Male very unlike a migrant construction worker at the Banglar Kantha- Dibashram way back in February 2015 at Rowell Road in the heart of a bustling artery in Little India (or Bangladesh) in Singapore. He used to be at that juncture a regular member of the … More The Curious Case of Md. Mukul- Glass ceiling to Migrant Art in Singapore

Engage with the wound Running away, a balm In our bruises The self is built/revealed Pain crushes/transforms

Hardly see serpentine lines in Dubai, but in this Muharram time, streams of faithful gush in to the Shia Masjid in Al Fahidi, Bur Dubai next to the place where i live. Year of Tolerance. UAE lives the ethos.

Good to be at the 24th World Energy Congress at Abu Dhabi with my team. Excellent to see representations from the heavy hitters from the UAE, KSA, Korea, Japan, Russia, Estonia, Algeria and Lebanon. India too had a good team fielded from Coal India, NTPC among others.