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  What’s True Love Like In Isolation?
    Books | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    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
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    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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  People I Didn’t Want To Think About
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    People I Didn’t Want To Think About

    January 15, 2023March 28, 2023
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    An unexpected reunion made me have to think about people and the wounds we inflict on each other.

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  2AM Lessons In Safety: The Insomnia Teacher
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    2AM Lessons In Safety: The Insomnia Teacher

    January 9, 2023February 18, 2023
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    I woke up two nights ago, not knowing why I was awake. No sound had disturbed me, it wasn’t time to wake up.

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  2023: Comfort Is Served
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    2023: Comfort Is Served

    January 4, 2023September 16, 2023
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    We are all angry. Seething and out for blood. Where do we go from here? The pandemic has been the arsenic cherry on the difficult lessons of a decade.

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  A Beautiful Day In A Soft Neighborhood
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    A Beautiful Day In A Soft Neighborhood

    December 24, 2022March 17, 2023
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    There is an interesting thing about memory foam. It yields to your touch & pressure. Not fast, not reacting. More like an indulgence, a consideration. Later it pauses with the impression you’ve left on it, as if ruminating. Just as meditatively it returns to its original self.

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  Excruciating Intimacies: Navigating Through Poetry
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    Excruciating Intimacies: Navigating Through Poetry

    December 24, 2022September 17, 2023
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    It isn’t intimacy unless it feels a little tender.

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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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