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    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Being Okay Again

    September 27, 2012September 28, 2023
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    I decided to pick happiness over drama this time and funnily enough, it actually was enough. I’m getting to be okay again.

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  Going Home
    Home & Identity

    Going Home

    September 27, 2012September 28, 2023
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    I read this post at the Caferati Open Mic at Prithvi the day before yesterday. Coming on the heels of a 2-hour commute, it felt especially apt. 🙂 And the evening ended on a lovely note and I went home.

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  Modak For Mogambo
    City | Pop Culture

    Modak For Mogambo

    September 25, 2012March 30, 2025
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    Spotted on the side of a building wall. I’m guessing the dangling man offering the modak came later. Street art is an ever evolving form, after all.

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  I Wear: Mad Men Mania!
    Pop Culture

    I Wear: Mad Men Mania!

    September 25, 2012February 25, 2025
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    There’s much that’s great about Mad Men – the story, the characters, the “Oh my God, it’s Lucky Strikes!” kind of references that have adpeople drooling. And then of course there are the clothes. Spanning the swirly skirts of the sixties to bellbottoms & miniskirts of the seventies (my favorite…

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  The Mumbaiker’s Prayer
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    The Mumbaiker’s Prayer

    September 21, 2012October 3, 2023
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    The Mumbaiker starts the day with a prayer to guide them through the daily adventure that is a public commute.

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  • Books | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Salt & Saffron: Kamila Shamsie – Where you came from and where you’re going

    September 17, 2012April 14, 2024
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    A review of ‘Salt & Saffron’ by Kamila Shamsie

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  The answer to “What happened?” and other such unanswerable questions
    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    The answer to “What happened?” and other such unanswerable questions

    September 16, 2012March 24, 2023
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    It struck me last night, when I was sitting on the floor of a slight friend’s house, talking to another friend when she asked me, “So how are you doing?“ Then she looked at me straight in the eye and pointed to her own heart. I stared back, a fraction…

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  Skinned
    Map Of Emotion

    Skinned

    September 16, 2012October 3, 2023
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    A cry of pain. The ten thousand fragments of my heart are the least of my worries when I’m a skinned being.

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  • Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    The Badness Of Good Boys

    September 14, 2012March 30, 2025
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    Is the Good Boy really that much better than the Bad Boy?

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    Home & Identity | Poetry | Relationships

    The Danger Of Hearts

    September 14, 2012September 17, 2023
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    The danger of hearts is they never come with a ‘Danger Ahead’ sign. When you discover where your love keeps their heart, it’s downhill into a world of pain.

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  • 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…”
  • 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…”

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