Author Archives: Tushmit Hasan

Ramadan and Me – I need some Perspective

Recovered from Facebook Notes. Posted on June 28, 2014, i.e., Ramadan from 10 years ago, back when the fasts were ~18 hours long. It was quite a different experience now, and I’m glad I wrote this, because it is worth … Continue reading

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Of Kalyani and Challenged Children

Recovered from Facebook Notes, posted Sep 17, 2008, written probably in 2004. Kalyani is a school that works under the Bangladesh Protibondhi Foundation (BPF). It is basically a school for ‘challenged’ children. I won’t say ‘disabled’ children or ‘handicapped’ children; … Continue reading

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St Martin’s Island

Recovered from Facebook Notes, posted Sep 17, 2008, written even before that about a memory from roughly 4 years before that. Reading it again, I can see my writing back then was influenced by all the Enid Blyton I read … Continue reading

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The A Level Life in Mastermind

Recovered from Facebook Notes, posted Sep 18, 2008, written even before that A-Levels – a completely new journey altogether – in the alien world of Mastermind! It’s been quite a while since we started this life and we have become … Continue reading

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Ode to Colorado Apartments

I have been so incredibly lucky to have lived in this apartment for the past two years. Never thought I could live in the middle of a city and yet have an apartment by the woods and the middle of … Continue reading

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Facebook: Why did your friend on the job market (or in some other time crunch) disappear?

Why did your friend on the job market (or in some other time crunch) disappear? Or, why I will not be hanging out with you the next few months As much fun as hanging out and chilling can be, when … Continue reading

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Romantic vs Platonic is Very Complicated

People tend to classify non-familial love as either romantic of platonic (the terms for which are derived from the medieval concept of Romance and the philosopher Plato respectively). The Wikipedia page for platonic love describes it as “a type of … Continue reading

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Romantic vs. … Limerent?

It’s time for me to ponder the question of Romantic vs. Platonic once again now that I have discovered the concept of limerence. To explain what limerence is, I will link to this blog post and proceed without any further … Continue reading

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Reading the Quran Again after Learning to Submit

After all these years, I can make this confession. My journey away from religion began with my first attempts to read the Quran. I had high expectations. I had expected a highly intellectual text that would give me incredible knowledge … Continue reading

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What I Learned from my Heartbreak: I Don’t Want a Romantic Relationship

I promise this sounds a lot more extreme than I intended it to be. I don’t have anything against romantic relationships and I even think they can be wonderful kinds of relationships to have. I am not even saying I … Continue reading

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