Sameen
@yellowchiffon.bsky.social
wanderer. word witch. weary.
writing at amarllyis.in
writing at amarllyis.in
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Sameen
@yellowchiffon.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Published Work
[Updated: 21 Aug 2020] It has finally occurred to me to post links to my work published elsewhere on the Web. I hope to keep this as a live blog post, updating it as and when the time arrives…
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Putting out on the skyline a link to my published work. If you visit the home page on this link, you’ll find my writing on this blog I’ve had for almost 14 years now. Simply put, I am always experiencing the world to write about it. 💌
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it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems
September 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems
Came to the kinder place to post about this kind imitative. With just ₹500 you can provide a school kit to a student.
I’ve been associated with this initiative for 10 years and can personally vouch for it. If you want to donate, please contact the folks on the poster. Or DM me.
I’ve been associated with this initiative for 10 years and can personally vouch for it. If you want to donate, please contact the folks on the poster. Or DM me.
September 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Came to the kinder place to post about this kind imitative. With just ₹500 you can provide a school kit to a student.
I’ve been associated with this initiative for 10 years and can personally vouch for it. If you want to donate, please contact the folks on the poster. Or DM me.
I’ve been associated with this initiative for 10 years and can personally vouch for it. If you want to donate, please contact the folks on the poster. Or DM me.
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Was it because there were no more graves in Gaza that you brought us to the beach to die?
Was it because rubbling us in our houses, like our cousins, like our cultures, like our gods, would be a bore?
~ No Moses in Siege by Muhammad Al Kurd
Read by @yellowchiffon.bsky.social
#poetryinparks #poem
Was it because rubbling us in our houses, like our cousins, like our cultures, like our gods, would be a bore?
~ No Moses in Siege by Muhammad Al Kurd
Read by @yellowchiffon.bsky.social
#poetryinparks #poem
No Moses in Siege, by Muhammad Al Kurd
YouTube video by Poetry in Parks
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June 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Was it because there were no more graves in Gaza that you brought us to the beach to die?
Was it because rubbling us in our houses, like our cousins, like our cultures, like our gods, would be a bore?
~ No Moses in Siege by Muhammad Al Kurd
Read by @yellowchiffon.bsky.social
#poetryinparks #poem
Was it because rubbling us in our houses, like our cousins, like our cultures, like our gods, would be a bore?
~ No Moses in Siege by Muhammad Al Kurd
Read by @yellowchiffon.bsky.social
#poetryinparks #poem
2025 Reading - Book 5 amarllyis.in/2025/08/10/2...
2025 Reading – Book 5
Book 5: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles But Fate would not have the reputation it has if it simply did what it seemed it would do. Towles, Amor. A Gentleman in Moscow (p. 80). (Function). Kind…
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August 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Kind people. We are trying to raise funds for bicycles so rural children can reach school easily. Currently they have to walk 6-7kms to get to school.
We also raised this last year and I had some bicycles shipped myself. This is a legit drive. Please consider donating or sharing this forward.
We also raised this last year and I had some bicycles shipped myself. This is a legit drive. Please consider donating or sharing this forward.
May 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Kind people. We are trying to raise funds for bicycles so rural children can reach school easily. Currently they have to walk 6-7kms to get to school.
We also raised this last year and I had some bicycles shipped myself. This is a legit drive. Please consider donating or sharing this forward.
We also raised this last year and I had some bicycles shipped myself. This is a legit drive. Please consider donating or sharing this forward.
I’m posting my books of 2026 on my blog (with short blurbs) instead of on Instagram coz their grid sucks.
Please hit Subscribe and follow along for leisure reading and beautiful book pics. 😍
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Please hit Subscribe and follow along for leisure reading and beautiful book pics. 😍
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2026 Reading – Book 1
Book 1: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy After having abandoned Instagram for posting my book reviews, I have found a new home for them here on my blog. While book-hopping a stray Internet c…
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May 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I’m posting my books of 2026 on my blog (with short blurbs) instead of on Instagram coz their grid sucks.
Please hit Subscribe and follow along for leisure reading and beautiful book pics. 😍
amarllyis.in/2025/05/05/2...
Please hit Subscribe and follow along for leisure reading and beautiful book pics. 😍
amarllyis.in/2025/05/05/2...
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I’m just a girl standing in front of the world asking for more than the bare minimum.
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More than the Bare Minimum
I am writing this after eating a delicious bowl of steaming dal khichri and air-fried chicken. I have the day off on account of a public holiday so an expanse of time lays before me unclaimed, and …
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May 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I’m just a girl standing in front of the world asking for more than the bare minimum.
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Done stitching the piece. Now figuring out the backing and the stitch I want to use to secure it before I put it up in the store.
📣 Tiny art for sale. 📣
🧶 #BSNM 🎨
📣 Tiny art for sale. 📣
🧶 #BSNM 🎨
April 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Done stitching the piece. Now figuring out the backing and the stitch I want to use to secure it before I put it up in the store.
📣 Tiny art for sale. 📣
🧶 #BSNM 🎨
📣 Tiny art for sale. 📣
🧶 #BSNM 🎨
I’m reading a short story that has VR pets and I had to write about it.
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Don’t Put VR Pets in my Fiction, Please?
A prophecy that doesn’t come true is gibberish from the past. Along with other books, I am currently reading Exhalation by Ted Chiang. To put it loosely, it is a collection of science fiction…
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April 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I’m reading a short story that has VR pets and I had to write about it.
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Yes!
Aren’t we all just yearning for a bookshelf with a rolling ladder so that it can fix us?
April 19, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Yes!
I’ve been spending time reading and watching one particular show in a languid manner. Then, I come to the internet and it hits me in the face how messed up the world is as opposed to the reading and show worlds that I inhabit.
It shudders me a little.
It shudders me a little.
April 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I’ve been spending time reading and watching one particular show in a languid manner. Then, I come to the internet and it hits me in the face how messed up the world is as opposed to the reading and show worlds that I inhabit.
It shudders me a little.
It shudders me a little.
Savouring Solitude
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Savouring Solitude
After joining a virtual reading group, I went to an in-person, silent-reading group meeting where we sat in a park in the evening and read our chosen books in silence for an hour. I have been silen…
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April 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Savouring Solitude
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It’s the season of love! Revolutionary library love!
Share this with your friends & family (in India) and get them to follow us here in large numbers!
As for the rest? All will be revealed tomorrow 🥸🩵
Share this with your friends & family (in India) and get them to follow us here in large numbers!
As for the rest? All will be revealed tomorrow 🥸🩵
February 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
It’s the season of love! Revolutionary library love!
Share this with your friends & family (in India) and get them to follow us here in large numbers!
As for the rest? All will be revealed tomorrow 🥸🩵
Share this with your friends & family (in India) and get them to follow us here in large numbers!
As for the rest? All will be revealed tomorrow 🥸🩵
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What’s even better than reading #PoetryInParks?
Putting books in the hands of all who want them, particularly those from historically disadvantaged communities.
That’s what @freelibsnet.bsky.social and their member libraries do.
Follow, and reshare their post. Many goodies are coming your way.
Putting books in the hands of all who want them, particularly those from historically disadvantaged communities.
That’s what @freelibsnet.bsky.social and their member libraries do.
Follow, and reshare their post. Many goodies are coming your way.
It’s the season of love! Revolutionary library love!
Share this with your friends & family (in India) and get them to follow us here in large numbers!
As for the rest? All will be revealed tomorrow 🥸🩵
Share this with your friends & family (in India) and get them to follow us here in large numbers!
As for the rest? All will be revealed tomorrow 🥸🩵
February 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
What’s even better than reading #PoetryInParks?
Putting books in the hands of all who want them, particularly those from historically disadvantaged communities.
That’s what @freelibsnet.bsky.social and their member libraries do.
Follow, and reshare their post. Many goodies are coming your way.
Putting books in the hands of all who want them, particularly those from historically disadvantaged communities.
That’s what @freelibsnet.bsky.social and their member libraries do.
Follow, and reshare their post. Many goodies are coming your way.
Received a glass sipper on Christmas 2024 and I have put it to the best use I can. I don’t use a throw away cup anymore.
February 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Received a glass sipper on Christmas 2024 and I have put it to the best use I can. I don’t use a throw away cup anymore.
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Hardly new info, but BSky should know:
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
February 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Hardly new info, but BSky should know:
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.
🧪🌏🚰
When will we get the BlueSky version of IG? I have lovely pics but nowhere to post them.
February 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When will we get the BlueSky version of IG? I have lovely pics but nowhere to post them.
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Instagram is ruined. I don’t want videos, I just want photos.
February 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Instagram is ruined. I don’t want videos, I just want photos.
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@janeborges.bsky.social hosts ‘Murder, she wrote’ with Unmana, Meeti Shroff & Kalpana Swaminathan on women detectives & crime fiction in India at KGAF’25.
February 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
@janeborges.bsky.social hosts ‘Murder, she wrote’ with Unmana, Meeti Shroff & Kalpana Swaminathan on women detectives & crime fiction in India at KGAF’25.
Returned from Bangalore and I believe the residents of that city are not angry enough.
January 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Returned from Bangalore and I believe the residents of that city are not angry enough.
🤍
First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.
January 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
🤍
How do hide certain key words here? I don’t want to read about that awful man.
January 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
How do hide certain key words here? I don’t want to read about that awful man.