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    The Neanderthal In The Nice Guy

    January 18, 2011July 15, 2025
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    What happens to a normal, decent nice guy going about his blameless life when he meets misnomers who are misogynist? How easily they all turn.

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  Is The Indian Man A Fashion Failure? – Feature In M Magazine, Jan 2011
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    Is The Indian Man A Fashion Failure? – Feature In M Magazine, Jan 2011

    January 12, 2011July 3, 2024
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    The year begins on a good note for the writer in me. 🙂 M Magazine has a special feature called ‘What Women Want‘. The feature covers various questions surrounding the Indian man of today. Five women have each contributed an article and one of those women is me! My piece…

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    The Truth About Attraction Of The Opposites

    January 12, 2011October 4, 2023
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    You know the phrase ‘opposites attract’? What nobody tells you is whether they ever end up happily ever after. Let me illustrate.

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  Tiny Tales: The Battle Of The Sexes
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    Tiny Tales: The Battle Of The Sexes

    January 12, 2011October 4, 2023
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    She looked younger in real life. Younger, not better. At least, in the photograph on the website she was smiling. “Sandeep? Hi. Sharia.” He was already on his feet, shaking her hand. Then he stopped, hoping it wasn’t too vigorous a handshake and that her fingers weren’t hurting. He settled…

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    Let’s Talk About Ex, Baby!

    January 10, 2011July 3, 2024
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    There is the family that you are born to and can’t do anything about. There are friends you choose of your own will and from whom you grow away. And there are those your heart beats for (or more likely your hormones delude you with) and from whom you rip…

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    Braveheart

    January 10, 2011July 3, 2024
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    Love may be a universal need but relationships are certainly not for the faint of heart. Am I a braveheart?

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    Completion

    January 8, 2011September 17, 2023
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    We were talking at cross purposes. We were enjoying domestic reverie together. How did it blossom into completion?

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    The Third Toothbrush

    January 5, 2011September 15, 2023
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    Last month, I was refreshing my make-up, when I stopped dead in my tracks. In that innocuous little plastic holder above the washbasin, there was a third toothbrush.

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    Singleton Turned Coupled-Up: I’m In A Relationship

    January 3, 2011October 4, 2023
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    I actually wrote this post five months ago. I feel more confident about bringing this out so here it is for your reading pleasure!

    I’m in a relationship.

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    Unequal Affections

    January 3, 2011July 3, 2024
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    A famous couplet by W.H. Auden goes, “If equal affections cannot be, let the more loving be me.”

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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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