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    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    The Deaths That We Deserve

    April 24, 2023April 23, 2023
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    How I learnt to value deaths as I learnt to value life. What lies next to the pain of loss & fear of the unknown when it comes to death?

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    Poetry | Pop Culture | Relationships

    CUSTODY – A Spoken Word Piece

    April 20, 2023September 17, 2023
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    Each time I perform this, men tell me, “You really understand how a guy feels.” I still feel wrecked by my custody battle.

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    Books | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    BOOK REVIEW: Sugarbread-Balli Kaur Jaswal: Like Eating A Green Chilli

    April 17, 2023December 16, 2023
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    Reading SUGARBREAD was like eating a whole green chilli. It made me feel like I’d been punched in the gut. Satisfaction came after tears.

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    City | Home & Identity | Poetry

    Big City Girl: Marol Memoirs

    April 14, 2023April 14, 2024
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    The joke goes that people from anywhere else in the city need a visa to enter Andheri. The Marol of my past was another world.

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    Politics & Feminism

    Male Feminist – Do I Still Think That’s A Thing?

    April 12, 2023December 29, 2023
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    A decade I ago I pondered the question, “Can a man be a feminist?”. Has my answer changed since then?

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  • Gardening death tulip
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    How Gardening Taught Me To Think Of Death

    April 10, 2023April 19, 2025
    2 Comments

    Death is hard to think about. Gardening gave me a surprisingly comfortable context in which to explore it.

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    Protected: E is for Enter Here To Exit – A Feardom Tale

    April 8, 2023August 23, 2025
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    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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  • Fiction

    Protected: D is for Dinner With A Daayan – A Feardom Tale

    April 5, 2023August 23, 2025
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    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    Protected: C is for Cheeky Chudail – A Feardom Tale

    April 3, 2023August 23, 2025
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    When It’s Time For Death

    April 3, 2023October 29, 2024
    2 Comments

    I closed a chapter I wrote a decade ago. It is a death since I once gave it life. What lies next to the pain of loss & fear of the unknown when it comes to death?

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  • IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “@Harshaman: What a delightful set of throwbacks it was to receive this comment! First, to the days when one would…”
  • Harshaman on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “Which for me means, looking back at the past with a discerning and curatorial eye I had been thinking about…”
  • Neha Kapoor on Unlikeable Women: It’s Okay To Dislike Her, But Respect Her: “You always have such good book recommendations!”
  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • 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…”

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