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  What I’d Like To Put On A Classified Ad
    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    What I’d Like To Put On A Classified Ad

    August 12, 2012March 30, 2025
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    Vacancy announcment for a heart.

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  Serenity
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    Serenity

    August 8, 2012March 24, 2023
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    Serenity is not knowing what tomorrow will bring and still being able to look forward to it.

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  • Digital World | Pop Culture

    Twory: Just friends

    August 2, 2012March 30, 2025
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    They RTed & DMed like crazy.They even read the other’s blogs. Then Facebook told him he was invited to ‘Happy Rakhi!’.So he hit #unfollow. *Inspired by this tweet. ** This unlike previous Twories is actually 140 characters and not 140 words. Perhaps it qualifies as Twiction instead.

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  • Ideasmith is not just my name
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    ‘IdeaSmith is not just my name’ – Friday Funda @ Godrej India Culture Lab

    July 31, 2012February 25, 2025
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    I gave a talk titled ‘IdeaSmith is not just my name’ at the Godrej India Culture Lab.

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  Closure Begins With An End
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    Closure Begins With An End

    July 30, 2012October 3, 2023
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    An email from out of the blue, reminded of odd feelings I’d forgotten and an end I hadn’t had.

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  Where I Take The Power Back
    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Where I Take The Power Back

    July 29, 2012September 16, 2023
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    I’m reclaiming my right to write. There’s much I’ve felt and been and heard and wanted to say but didn’t. A relationship, an engagement, a bitter breakup…aren’t all of these fodder for a feeling writer? And yet I’ve been quiet. I’ve been under a self-imposed gag order that no one…

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    Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Back in Stockholm

    July 29, 2012September 17, 2023
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    Your heart is a barren wasteland. It’s where dreams go to die. And hopes have a masochist side. But there’s no going back for me now.

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  • The city and the city - China Mieville
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    The City and The City-China Mieville: Stunning, Surreal & Sensational

    July 28, 2012February 25, 2025
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    The City and the City by China Miéville My rating: 4 of 5 stars Recommended by: Sumant Srivathsan At one level, there’s a story about two cities that share the same space. Not twin cities, not neighboring cities even, these are two different cities that sit on the same geography….

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    Digital World | Map Of Emotion

    Online drama because there’s so little of it offline, right?

    July 24, 2012October 3, 2023
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    I feel like a prisoner of the internet. The online binds me but it also nourishes me.

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  Exploring Borders
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    Exploring Borders

    July 18, 2012March 24, 2023
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    It’s a day for flying solo. For being alone. Vegging out, watching mindless TV and pausing to stare out of the window, unseeing into the unclear outside, fogged, smogged and clogged by rain and outsideness. Or for getting lost in a crowd. The storm in the center of a sea…

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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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