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

    Does Tanishq GlamGold’s Advertising Understand Women?

    December 27, 2011February 25, 2025
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    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
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    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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    Digital World | Map Of Emotion | WorkSpace

    NovelRace 12: All Kinds Of Wow

    December 10, 2011April 14, 2024
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    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
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    Kapil Sibal had Twitter outraging after suggesting censorship of social media content.

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    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Girlfriend Or Single Mum?

    November 30, 2011February 25, 2025
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    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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  • Digital World | Home & Identity | Pop Culture

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

    November 21, 2011May 2, 2026
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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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