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The Rookie Meena Kandasamy book show poster
Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie

June 26, 2025June 26, 2025
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A police drama. A feminist novel. Both markers in my journey to trusting my judgement again. ‘The Rookie’ and Meena Kandasamy’s debut novel were soul mirrors.

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Book - The Collected regrets of Clover - Mikki Brammer
Books | Map Of Emotion

Notes In The Margin: ‘The Collected Regrets Of Clover’ – Mikki Brammer

June 12, 2025June 12, 2025
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A stranger gave me ‘The Collected Regrets of Clover’ in a rare act of generosity. The book gently looks at the messiness & mundaneity of grief.

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Mad women book collage
Books | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

The Feels This Week: Mad Women In Books

May 31, 2025May 31, 2025
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Mad women on my mind—through cults, kitchens, crimes, and cosmic quests. These stories of rage, resistance, and reckoning ask: what makes a woman mad?

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Gabrielle Zevin book AJ Fikry Tomorrow
Books | City | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry

May 28, 2025May 28, 2025
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How do you reconcile the love of some books with the thought that their authors hate people like you? Gabrielle Zevin makes me ponder this.

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South India Book - Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese, Painter of Signs RK Narayan
Books | Politics & Feminism

South India Storyscapes: COVENANT OF WATER – Abraham Verghese, PAINTER OF SIGNS – RK Narayan

May 11, 2025May 11, 2025
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Two stories – one written in the 70s and one in the 2020. They had me thinking about how South India looks at identity issues like gender & faith.

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AI woman uterus ovaries gynacology
Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism

A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria

May 9, 2025May 9, 2025
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Hysterectomy: a polite word for erasing what makes you visible. Take the uterus, take the person. No bleeding, no birthing. Medicine makes it official.

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God in the incompletion collage
City | Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Roving I

Finding God In The Incompletion Of Love, Nature & City

May 5, 2025May 5, 2025
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Mumbai’s bridges, birds, and bygone doors— seeking meaning in plants, photographs, and god in everyday moments.

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Ramya reading book Fictionary
Books | Pop Culture | Relationships

When Did Reading Become Performance?

April 30, 2025April 30, 2025
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Reading isn’t a flex. Self-help isn’t a gateway drug to fiction. If you read to look good, I’m not impressed—and neither is Gabrielle Zevin.

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Dhara Cleopatra Frankenstein Book
Books | Relationships

The One Who Gave Me A Book – Cleopatra & Frankenstein: Coco Mellers

April 24, 2025May 29, 2025
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Books, like people, appear when you need them most. I’ve found a book shop, a community, a friend and a book on my way to myself.

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Sunset from Mumbai metro station
City | Digital World | Roving I

The Feels This Week: My Home In Photographs

April 22, 2025April 25, 2025
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An old-school post from a 2000s photoblog. My evening through Andheri in photographs. Feel free to skip to the pics if you like.

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Comments

  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”
  • IdeaSmith on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “@XXfan: Yes, it appears to be a legal requirement for the hospital to show the removed parts to kin, probably…”
  • Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”
  • IdeaSmith on Finding God In The Incompletion Of Love, Nature & City: “@Slogan Murugan: It’s good to have you be part of this blog again!”
  • Slogan Murugan on Finding God In The Incompletion Of Love, Nature & City: “🙂 🙂 Happy to see this 🙂”
  • Slogan Murugan on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “What a fascinating world you have discovered thanks to books!”

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