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  Mr.Modern Man, Get An Identity!
    Politics & Feminism

    Mr.Modern Man, Get An Identity!

    January 3, 2012February 25, 2025
    7 Comments

    There’s a strange character out on the loose. He calls himself the Modern Man. I don’t like him very much.

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    City

    Bandra Is No Longer Queen Of The Suburbs

    January 3, 2012February 25, 2025
    2 Comments

    I wrote an essay about Bandra today and DNA featured an excerpt in their issue on 9 Jan’11.

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  I Wear: The Lady Loves Lavender
    Pop Culture

    I Wear: The Lady Loves Lavender

    January 2, 2012April 14, 2024
    1 Comment

    A chance dress in lavendar with an impulse purchase of shoes.

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  • tanishq
    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Does Tanishq GlamGold’s Advertising Understand Women?

    December 27, 2011February 25, 2025
    3 Comments

    I’m not sure what to make of Tanishq GlamGold’s current ad campaign. Do they think women’s insecurities should be pandered to or gotten over?

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    Digital World | WorkSpace

    Social Networking – The Creation & Consumption Of Content

    December 27, 2011August 12, 2025
    2 Comments

    The harbingers of the social media revolution were content platforms. I wrote a two-part essay for Social Samosa about the history of social media in India.

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  Marvin’s World: Dash Games – Watch That Clock!
    Digital World | Pop Culture | WorkSpace

    Marvin’s World: Dash Games – Watch That Clock!

    December 15, 2011April 14, 2024
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    Time Management games are a great draw into casual mobile gaming. I love the Dash games.

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  • white notebook and yellow pencil novelrace
    Digital World | Map Of Emotion | WorkSpace

    NovelRace 12: All Kinds Of Wow

    December 10, 2011April 14, 2024
    5 Comments

    Remember Novelrace? Two years may as well be twenty on social media. But my journal on being a first time writer has one final chapter.

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  • three person doing selfie under sunny sky
    Digital World | Map Of Emotion | Roving I

    The Specialness Of A Display Picture

    December 10, 2011March 29, 2025
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    Is it pathetic when you look at the display picture of someone you haven’t talked to, in ages & think, “That picture was taken on my camera!” No, it’s not. And I’ll tell you why. Because it means I was there in that moment with that person. It means that…

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  Kapil Sibal & The C-Word
    Digital World | WorkSpace

    Kapil Sibal & The C-Word

    December 7, 2011March 22, 2023
    3 Comments

    Kapil Sibal had Twitter outraging after suggesting censorship of social media content.

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  • woman sitting in front of the laptop computer in shallow photo
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Girlfriend Or Single Mum?

    November 30, 2011February 25, 2025
    1 Comment

    I wonder if, at some point in the relationship, a woman feels more like a single mother than a girlfriend/wife. I know I certainly do. And I have one of the better ones. He doesn’t cheat, he doesn’t force sex on me. And yet, here I am. I’ve refrained from…

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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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