Articles by Sumeet Grover
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Recovering from Complex Trauma: Exploring Rage as the Missing Piece
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
From one perspective, whatever we name this experience, trauma or something else, it does not matter. What matters is that one can open up a space within oneself to open both arms with humility, love and sensitivity, and allow one’s memories and one’s physical pain to fall.
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Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
It is in our connectedness with other people – in our memories of laughter, smiles, sharing sorrow, being heard, being looked at with kindness, being heard with attention, being remembered by someone, being upset with someone, being comforted – that we become alive as relational beings.
→ read full articleThe Role of Artmaking and Symbolism in Trauma Therapy
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – In the long-term treatment of Complex Trauma, when we look at the internal processes that go on within the mind and body of a trauma survivor, we realise that it is a complicated process because what we are trying to disentangle is multidimensional and invisible.
→ read full articleLola
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Love is
in her dough as she
kneads it with both hands,
mixes za’atar spice;
Understanding Childhood Trauma
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
Although the word ‘trauma’ occupies the associations of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in popular thinking, the kind of trauma I am writing about is the one where character-by-character, the story of one’s childhood will fall apart if the symptomatic rage that it creates were allowed to run free. Childhood trauma impacts more people than we recognise
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Building a Life Worth Living
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
This book is a heartfelt, honest, and touching account of Marsha M. Linehan’s personal life, scientific research and her lifelong relationship with her Catholic faith and spirituality. She is a distinguished US psychologist who has made significant contributions to the treatment of a psychiatric condition called ‘personality disorders’.
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Milk and Honey, by Rupi Kaur
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
Milk and Honey, by the Indian-Canadian poet Rupi Kaur, is about love and loss; and it is also about the very uncomfortable subject of abuse.
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Effigies
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2018
Effigies is a collection of drawings by Syrian artist Lawand, accompanied by poems which were composed by the British poet Pascale Petit in response to these images. Even the verbal realm into which Petit’s poems take us has the language of some other world; such is the appeal of her words.
→ read full articleThe Jungian Analyst
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
Too much of herself in that
sitting room:
lines etched on a bronze metal painting;
Tomorrow
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
You can see him all day
asking for change: coins enough
to take him away from this wet
street of London.
Oona’s Mum
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
– What is that philosophy book you were reading?
Have you written something new? Five days
I didn’t hear a word… what about your local
peace group? Be gentle, do not criticise them,
they will realise one day –
In Search of Work
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
She came dressed in a mustard suit
with daffodils printed in turquoise
and magenta; her long scarf woven
in her plait so she doesn’t forget it in the …
Buddhist Fanaticism: I Rejected It
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
Recently an article appeared on the Guardian UK where a former Christian, a Jew and a Muslim wrote about quitting religion because they realised they were made to cultivate false beliefs about themselves and others. My story is about quitting the largest Buddhist organisation in the UK to reject fanaticism and the insult of diversity.
→ read full articleForgotten
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
For the Dalit People of India
→ read full articleLove and Resistance by Theresa Wolfwood
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
The poems by Theresa Wolfwood in ‘Love and Resistance’ are an historic contribution to our art of poetry, which is denied a place in the mainstream discourse on human conflicts, social justice, poverty and the bombing of civilians globally in the name of national security.
→ read full articleBook Review: Love and Resistance, by Theresa Wolfwood
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Her poems at times are so powerful that if they were printed in the next morning’s newspapers in some parts of the world, civil disobedience movements would rally to press for justice.
→ read full articleIndia’s Daughter: From Nonviolent Demonstrations to People’s Revolution
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
‘India’s Daughter’ invokes, rather than provokes, the ideas and sentiments for people to change their views of women; it is just another signpost in India’s quest for true equality and liberty. In the end, there is no revolution that surpasses a revolution in the hearts and minds of individuals themselves.
→ read full articleKamikaze
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
they win every war, even when
they explode babies and grandmothers,
whilst their tanks play songs, inspire them,
“kill the motherf**, kill…!”
Chilean Art of Civil Disobedience: Review from V&A, London
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The Disobedient Objects exhibition is on display at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, London, until 1st February 2015.
→ read full articleConcert Review: Anoushka Shankar at The Royal Festival Hall, London
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The genre of Shankar’s music has roots in ancient Hindu philosophy and Indian culture, but her compositions, positioned in the twenty-first century world, astonishingly connect the inner microcosm of the individual to the expansive macrocosm of the universe.
→ read full articleBristol Museum: Remembering the British Empire in India
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2014
Exhibiting this painting in the present-day goes against the art for a culture of peace, and glorifies a ‘culture of occupation’. For this reason alone, I would urge the Bristol Museum to decommission this painting. The British Empire was culturally, morally and economically deteriorative to India than being a ‘force for good’.
→ read full articleSilent Grace: A Film Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Silent Grace is an award-winning 2004 film, directed by filmmaker Maeve Murphy. It documents a disturbing chapter of Northern Ireland’s nonviolent dirty protests and hunger strikes by republican female prisoners in 1980 that were never made public.
→ read full articleTamarind Mem
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Tamarind Mem, a Canadian bestseller novel from 1997, written by Indian-born Anita Rau Badami is an infectious and unforgettable story of an extensively engaged childhood, family, identity, culture and its inherent oppression of women, narrated through genius storytelling.
→ read full articleThe Nordic Light – A Poetry Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The Nordic Light is a collection of poetry accompanied by photography, a seldom used combination, but a very impactful and much needed one. All of the poems are contributions from historic or prominent Norwegian poets, with the exception of one Danish and one Finnish poet.
→ read full articleInvisible Borders
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
For Aya, my friend from Israel.
How can I forget
the words we have exchanged?
World Press Photo 2013: Exhibition Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
The World Press Photo 2013 exhibition, currently on display at London’s Southbank Centre is a tribute to a diverse global civilisation pre-occupied with ceaseless challenges, chaos, celebration and reflection.
→ read full articleSome People Are Gay: How Do We Get Over It?
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
The word ‘gay’ has come to symbolise far too many images of people than what it originally meant. It has become one of the most offensively progressive terms in the English language, where it suggests much more than ‘light-hearted and carefree’ or simply suggesting the sexual orientation of some men.
→ read full articleSome People Are Gay: How Do We Get Over It?
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
The word ‘gay’ has come to symbolise far too many images of people than what it originally meant. It has become one of the most offensively progressive terms in the English language, where it suggests much more than ‘light-hearted and carefree’ or simply suggesting the sexual orientation of some men.
→ read full articleDaybreak Train
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
For Connor, an uncared boy who chose life.
→ read full articleHouse Arrest
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
For Indian women who live an occupied life under marriages of honour.
→ read full articleArt Review: BP Portrait Award 2013
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Fifty-five of the most outstanding entries, including the winning portraits, from this international competition are currently on exhibit from 20 Jun to 15 Sept 2013. During the judging process, none of the entries received from seventy-seven countries were tagged with the artists’ nationality as a measure of equality, and this ethic is also evident in the exhibit.
→ read full articleIron Wings
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
For the residents of London Hounslow who live under constant pollution of Heathrow flight path.
→ read full articleTears in Taksim Square
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
For the protesters of Taksim square.
→ read full articleGenesis, by Sebastião Salgado: Exhibition Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
Genesis, an unfathomable eight-year long work, that took the Brazilian documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado to 32 countries, explores the earth in the way it must have originated and the way its vast undiscovered stretches have remained untouched. It asks us, the humans, to question our view of this world and our relationship with this fragile planet that is powerful enough to create, sustain as well as destroy.
→ read full articleMine: Story of a Sacred Mountain
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
A documentary produced by Survival International, is a record of the multi-billion pounds FTSE 100-listed British mining giant Vedanta Resources Plc with its ambitions to destroy the breathtaking beauty, culture, forests and tribal life of the Niyamgiri Hills located in eastern India in order to mine millions of tons of bauxite from these hills to produce aluminium.
→ read full article40 Days: Art Exhibition Review
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
On Friday, 12th April 2013, the A.M. Qattan Foundation in London opened doors to a free art exhibition titled ’40 Days’, created by an Israeli-Palestinian artist, Dor Guez. Guez has used photography archives and documentary film-making as means to capture the history, endurance and presence of the Palestinian-Christian community within the Israeli city of Lod, which was previously known by its Arabic name of Al-Lydd.
→ read full articleMy Neighbourhood: An Israel-Palestine Documentary
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
My Neighbourhood is a short documentary film that records four different stories at crossroads between Israeli West Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian town of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. If I were to rename this film, I would call it ‘It is my home; I won’t leave it.’
→ read full articleArt from Iran Exhibition: A Review from Edinburgh
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
In merely seven objects dating between 13th to 21st first century, this exhibition captures volumes of beliefs, mythologies, monarchy, traditions and the poor as well as the riches of a nation where artistic craftsmanship, expression and their advancement was an integral part of society.
→ read full articleChristmas
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Tinsel around the house
And the fireplace is warm, …
They Are Hearing Us
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
For the people of Iran who live under Internet and telephone censorship.
→ read full articleBanned
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Dedicated to the freedom and dignity of young men who choose to have boyfriends.
→ read full articleAyesha Was Killed
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
Dedicated to the young men and women executed in Iran for supporting human rights and democracy.
→ read full articleTime Clock of Mind
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
For the young men who have been victims of physical abuse, and experienced inner trauma.
→ read full articleWoman with No Gold
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2012
For the Poverty-Stricken Women in India Who Work as Domestic Maids
→ read full articleRecession Breaks In
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
Recession breaks in
grey bar charts in a row fall down
as do computer monitors, file cabinets and screams
from window of sky-high building
like someone threw up after ugly reality;
The Hidden Face of Indian Democracy
Sumeet Grover - The Huffington Post,
23 Apr 2012
Every day the police beat some of these non-violent protesters, file legal cases against shop-keepers for not opening their shops in protest, and force fishermen to go by the sea to send out a message of normalism to the world. Meanwhile, hundreds still remain arrested for demanding transparency and democratic involvement, and the government has filed legal cases of “waging a war against the State” against its non-violent leaders. Is this not déjà vu? China or Burma?
→ read full articleElections Long Over in Koodankulam
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
In support of ‘people of Koodakulam’ whose voices and rights have been suppressed.
→ read full articleRang de Basanti (Colour My Saffron)
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
In support of ‘people of Koodakulam’ whose voices and rights have been suppressed.
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