Is This Feminism?: Women’s Day
Is Women’s Day feminist or the exact opposite?
Pop Culture
Books, Film, Fashion, Food, Music, Performance & all things popular culture
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ZODIAC-A-RAMA: Bachchon, Yeh Mat Khao
I love listicles about astrology! Here’s one more on my theme of #Zodiacarama. The zodiac signs as 80s/90s Indian sweets. ARIES: Mango Mood & everything from the sour things thela wala – Makes weird faces. Makes you make weird faces. Everything is a dare. TAURUS: Monginis slice cake – Soft,…
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Bleeding Colour
Body positivity starts with treating your self as a work of art.
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Books | Fiction | Pop Culture | Relationships
Paper Lovers
We didn’t speak at our first meeting. He wore orange trousers & skulked in a corner. I was the life of the party in pinstripes. Irony clinked glasses all around. I discovered he had a blog & I visited from my anonymous account. It was much better than the one…
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Rebirth
I’ve been taking tentative steps towards normal life (or whatever that looks like) in 2021. Is this a rebirth?
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Social Ladder: Mumbai Class System
What about the Mumbai class divide?
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Cityzen – A Mumbai Retrospective
My divided love affair between the cities of Bangalore and Mumbai
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Checklist For Letting Go
At some point, you have to let go of the people who you think healed you because they’re no more than crutches. Maybe you needed them once but letting them go is part of growth. There is no glory in suffering, no love in neediness. Shared pain is an opportunity,…
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Meeting Desire
You wouldn’t recognise desirein the emptiness in your mouthmaking way for wordsthat your stomach is already breaking down You wouldn’t know desire if it licked youYou think it’s meant to kick & clawNot snuggle between your cellsBreathing the quiet places between people You wouldn’t trust desireEven if you laid bare…
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Valentine’s Day Farce
Whew pink season is over, what a relief! To paraphrase Mad Men, romance was invented by capitalists to sell more stuff. Valentine’s Day single-handedly created an economy of greeting cards, pink teddy bears & red hearts. Nothing wrong in these, of course. But let’s not pretend it’s something else.
