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  When Good Boundaries Reframe Your Stories
    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    When Good Boundaries Reframe Your Stories

    February 16, 2023October 9, 2023
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    What you say and how you say it, affects other people. Being sensitive to this can be empowering.

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  Valentine Anniversary: A Hero’s Quest
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Valentine Anniversary: A Hero’s Quest

    February 15, 2023February 18, 2023
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    My journey through Valentine’s Days is full of bloody warfare, dangerous laughter, cold money and seething rage. What was it like today?

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  Letters To Delhi From A Mumbai Girl
    Books | City | Home & Identity

    Letters To Delhi From A Mumbai Girl

    February 9, 2023April 24, 2025
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    Delhi & Mumbai, two definitions of what it means to me. A nostalgic, dramatic legacy? Or a rags-to-riches renegade?

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  Bullet Holes In My Self Esteem
    Books | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Bullet Holes In My Self Esteem

    February 6, 2023February 27, 2025
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    Why does heartbreak decimate self esteem? Where does shame sit in this pain? Can we heal from it instead of escaping its lessons?

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  • Mental Health in a capitalist world
    Body & Sex | Digital World | Politics & Feminism | WorkSpace

    Mental Health In A Capitalist World

    February 4, 2023January 7, 2024
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    Our value as human beings is determined by our use. What happens to the things that make us human in this capitalist world? Mental health suffers.

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  What’s True Love Like In Isolation?
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    What’s True Love Like In Isolation?

    January 30, 2023March 5, 2023
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    The most poignant events of our lives still leave an impact that only lasts a couple of years at most. What do we make of ‘true love’ which has a kind of endlessness?

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  The One Who Brought Me Beauty
    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    The One Who Brought Me Beauty

    January 28, 2023September 10, 2023
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    A gratitude note to someone from my past: The strongest of us may need someone to remind us that we also need beauty, love & harmony to make survival a life.

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  Welcome To The Real Mumbai Metro
    City | Home & Identity

    Welcome To The Real Mumbai Metro

    January 26, 2023October 9, 2023
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    Mumbai is a boardgame of big power, big money, big everything. A new metro network just changed the balance of all things that count. What does this mean for the city?

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  Confused Patriarchy Made Me A Feminist
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    Confused Patriarchy Made Me A Feminist

    January 22, 2023February 27, 2025
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    Why does a woman have to earn a life of dignity through abuse & assault when men receive it as birthright?

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  The Economics Of Our Dining Choices: Morality Measure?
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    The Economics Of Our Dining Choices: Morality Measure?

    January 19, 2023February 27, 2025
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    If we’re going to measure morality based on what we eat, let’s examine the food on our plates first.

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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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