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  Braveheart
    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion | Relationships | WorkSpace

    Braveheart

    January 10, 2011July 3, 2024
    2 Comments

    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
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Relationships

    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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    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships | WorkSpace

    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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    Christmas Gift

    December 27, 2010October 4, 2023
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    It’s been an eventful Christmas weekend. Watching your new significant other with other people is an interesting experience.

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  I Style!: Rock Chic
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    I Style!: Rock Chic

    December 23, 2010February 25, 2025
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    It’s been awhile since an I Style! post came up. Have Mumbaikers stopped being adventurous in their apparel? I think it’s got more to do with the fact that I am not on the road every single day, struggling through a workaholic life and thus extra sensitive to a splash…

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  Ideart: Mere Pass WOGMA Hain!
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    Ideart: Mere Pass WOGMA Hain!

    December 22, 2010May 26, 2025
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    Another Ideart opportunity and my marketing mind tells me this should be called co-branding. 🙂 At the Mood Indigo-BlogCamp Dec 2010 that happened over the weekend, I had a chance to showcase one of my works. I first met Meetu at a common friend’s party. A few months later, we…

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    Why Do Women Go To The Loo In Groups?

    December 22, 2010March 30, 2025
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    Like every good Mumbaiker, I would spend about an hour and half commuting to work each morning. Once I got in, I’d perch on my chair, waiting for my colleague to arrive. She’d walk in about 10 minutes later, switch on her computer, rearrange her desk and give me a…

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  Ain’t Nobody Like A Desi Boy
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    Ain’t Nobody Like A Desi Boy

    December 20, 2010March 30, 2025
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    This Telegraph article made me laugh. I quote: “You have beautiful eyes” was by far the most used compliment, picked by almost a quarter of all men, but only the third most successful. The least used line was “You have beautiful ears”, which was also the second least effective line…

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  • IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “@Harshaman: What a delightful set of throwbacks it was to receive this comment! First, to the days when one would…”
  • Harshaman on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “Which for me means, looking back at the past with a discerning and curatorial eye I had been thinking about…”
  • Neha Kapoor on Unlikeable Women: It’s Okay To Dislike Her, But Respect Her: “You always have such good book recommendations!”
  • 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…”

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