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  Date IITians: Gold-digger meets Pedigreed Pup?
    Digital World | Relationships

    Date IITians: Gold-digger meets Pedigreed Pup?

    April 23, 2012July 3, 2024
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    Now here’s something that popped up on my browser window. I don’t know exactly how it came to be there. It may have appeared via an inadvertent click on a Facebook ad or a random link on my populous Twitter stream. I just know I’m going to get some flak…

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  I Wear: Summer Shopaholic
    Pop Culture

    I Wear: Summer Shopaholic

    April 23, 2012March 23, 2023
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    So I went shopping with an old girlfriend. Summer is my favorite season after all. A time for friends, for dressing well and for fun. A day out with N is not a new thing but it’s always fun. Except more than a decade later, we’re doing this in a…

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  • Digital World | Home & Identity

    On IdeaSmith and the Idea-smithy

    April 20, 2012March 23, 2023
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    I wrote this on April 12, 2007. It was a private post and nobody read it but me. Why then, am I sharing it here now? Because lately I’ve been accused of not being passionate about writing, by someone whose opinion matters very much. Because I find I’m constantly arguing…

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  Rooh Afza popsicle
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Rooh Afza popsicle

    April 20, 2012March 23, 2023
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    ….or pepsi-cola as we called it when I was a kid. Delighted that we could make it at home and not have to rely on the whimsical mercies of the adults. Competing to see whose popsicle came out solid and whose was like mush (ice-halwa, still delicious to eat and…

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  Weird Conversations
    Body & Sex | Relationships

    Weird Conversations

    April 14, 2012March 30, 2025
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    I guess there are some decent things about being a woman. 🙂 *If you enjoyed this comic-post, check out the rest of the Idea-toons. I used Stripcreator to create this comic. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —…

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  Stupid Women
    Body & Sex

    Stupid Women

    April 11, 2012March 23, 2023
    1 Comment

    What do you call someone who keeps falling for the same trick? Stupid. What do you call someone who does it so often they don’t have a choice? A stupid woman.

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  Vodafone’s Customer Care On Twitter
    Digital World | Map Of Emotion | WorkSpace

    Vodafone’s Customer Care On Twitter

    April 10, 2012February 25, 2025
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    How Vodafone is using social media for customer care.

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  Now That You’ve Put A Ring On It, What Next?
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Now That You’ve Put A Ring On It, What Next?

    April 6, 2012March 23, 2023
    7 Comments

    Of course, I’m having cold feet. What, you think I need a Y chromosome to get that?

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  How Social Media Helped ‘The Reluctant Detective’
    Books | Digital World | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture | WorkSpace

    How Social Media Helped ‘The Reluctant Detective’

    April 5, 2012February 25, 2025
    1 Comment

    Author Kiran Manral innovatively used social media to promote her new book ‘The Reluctant Detective’.

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  A Bit Of Boring
    Relationships

    A Bit Of Boring

    April 3, 2012November 25, 2023
    2 Comments

    Mr.Everyday and I took our first trip together. They do say travel is a lesson in compatibility. I navigated what I knew of interesting and boring.

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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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