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    What Does Pop Culture Have Against Bloggers?

    November 28, 2011July 15, 2025
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    The boy gleefully tells me that a Grand Theft Auto (GTA) mission that he just completed, is called ‘Blogger This…!‘. In the game, a blogger has raised the shackles of a nightclub owner because of his negative posts about the club, after being denied entry into it. So the mission…

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  The ‘Modern Woman’ Is Not Another Gender Stereotype
    Politics & Feminism

    The ‘Modern Woman’ Is Not Another Gender Stereotype

    November 23, 2011March 22, 2023
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    The Modern Woman is a work in progress. She’s what’s left after the brutal resistance against archaic social structures.

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  Quoted In Sunday Mid-Day – ‘Why Men Won’t Let Women Speak’
    Digital World | Politics & Feminism | WorkSpace

    Quoted In Sunday Mid-Day – ‘Why Men Won’t Let Women Speak’

    November 21, 2011February 25, 2025
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    I was quoted in a Sunday Mid-Day story about gendered harassment online titled ‘Why Men Won’t Let Women Speak’.

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  • body measurement
    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism

    Size Zero Is About Self-Esteem, Not Body Measurements

    November 18, 2011October 3, 2023
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    Body image is all over social media. I saw a meme depicting a curvaceous cartoon woman with the caption: “To all girls who die for a ‘ZERO FIGURE’, Sweetie remember real men go for curves, only dogs go for bones.” I looked it up and found a Facebook page dedicated…

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  The Bag Lady
    Books | Pop Culture

    The Bag Lady

    November 18, 2011July 3, 2024
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    I’m a regular packrat and on a good day, I can pull out water bottle, mirror, hairbrush, hand sanitizer, face towel, book, notepad or pen from my bag, in addition to the mandatory stuff.

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  Don’t Confuse Your Partner’s Friends For Your Own
    Relationships

    Don’t Confuse Your Partner’s Friends For Your Own

    November 16, 2011March 22, 2023
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    Custody battles for friendship are no less ugly than those for children and possessions of an estranged couple.

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  • City

    Things To Not Do In Mumbai

    November 15, 2011March 30, 2025
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    Please do NOT do the following, for your own safety, sanity and that of other citizens of this city:

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  I Wear: Geeky Chic
    Pop Culture

    I Wear: Geeky Chic

    November 11, 2011November 4, 2024
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    What you wear speaks about who you are. I met the funny Mallu man and here’s what he turned out to be.

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  • Digital World | Politics & Feminism

    What To Do When A Woman Says, “Do What You Want!”

    November 10, 2011March 30, 2025
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    I’m following an extremely entertaining conversation on Twitter. It all started with, @dharmeshG: When a girl says “Do what you want.”, what should you do? We all know what’s coming, don’t we? For your entertainment value, here are some of the responses that followed that tweet. First, the funny guys…

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  The Cages That Women Live In
    Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    The Cages That Women Live In

    November 8, 2011February 25, 2025
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    The most burdensome, about my gender is the black-and-white nature of options available to women.

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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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