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Amba Azaad

Amba Azaad lives mostly on Twitter in her attempts to transmute existential melancholy into very long tweet threads. Her brickspace location is New Delhi, India.

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The Malignant Melancholy

By Amba AzaadJanuary 29, 2018
There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master.
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