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    Apna Apna Andaz

    September 10, 2012March 30, 2025
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    In apna andaz, I got revenge.

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  Don’t Rain On The Office Parade
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    Don’t Rain On The Office Parade

    September 4, 2012March 30, 2025
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    My first week isn’t out and the high drama has already begun! Started with a marathon meeting that went on past lunch, topped by the first cold I’ve started this monsoon (aren’t they the worst?). Monday was better, punctuated as it was by an awkward-funny round of introductions with everyone…

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  Career Woman or Wife: Why Should A Woman Have To Choose?
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    Career Woman or Wife: Why Should A Woman Have To Choose?

    September 2, 2012October 9, 2023
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    This story of an 80s feminist is always a comfort read. And it brings up a question we’re still grappling with thirty years later.

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    The Cleft: Doris Lessing – Great Idea Falls Flat

    September 2, 2012April 14, 2024
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    The Cleft by Doris LessingMy rating: 1 of 5 stars This is an example of a mediocre (even bad) book with a promising blurb. The story of human creation, where the first beings were not men but only women (called Clefts). Boy children first appeared as anomalies of birth and…

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    Back In Office

    September 1, 2012March 30, 2025
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    After a three year hiatus, I’m going back to work. On the 1st of September, I enter the office space again as an employee.

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  I Style!: Moustache Ro!
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    I Style!: Moustache Ro!

    August 31, 2012February 25, 2025
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    If it’s been awhile since my last I Style! spotting, it’s because you people are just not being adventurous in what you wear!! But I guess what makes this fun is how a surprise might be waiting around any corner, any minute (oh, I really must carry that camera around…

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    Healing Heart

    August 27, 2012April 14, 2024
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    Unfollowed him today. It felt like the right time and way to do it. I let go of my hurt with great difficulty. Today was that day, though, and I’m not going to feel stupid about it. It may seem sad and pathetic that I feel the need to chronicle…

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    Who’s Your Daddy?

    August 20, 2012March 30, 2025
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    As much as I complain about autorickshaws, I can’t deny they certainly improve the stuck-in-traffic experience. ‘If ur bad, I am ur dad.’

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    Confessional

    August 20, 2012March 24, 2023
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    Because I’m in a rare confessional mood and it’s past midnight and I can’t think of anything great to say or I’ve said so much of it in my earlier posts today and I’m saving it up for the week. Or because I’ve just read Thought Catalog and a healthy…

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    55ers win over Culture Shoq’s Big Mic Vol.12

    August 19, 2012February 25, 2025
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    So I was at Culture Shoq’s Big Mic at IBar the Monday before last. And for the first time, I actually won. :-p I strung together four 55-word stories that I chaptered into a larger narrative called ‘Monsoon Romance’. They were Here’s my ‘performance’ (with apologies for the garbled voice,…

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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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