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  From Ashes
    City | Fiction | Map Of Emotion

    From Ashes

    February 26, 2010July 3, 2024
    5 Comments

    How do you harvest imagination in a field of concrete & glass? You let it all burn down to ashes first.

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    Map Of Emotion

    At The End Of Fascination

    February 23, 2010September 21, 2023
    1 Comment

    The person I wrote this for, when he read it, told me, You don’t yet realize that we are beyond this. It was a fitting end in every way possible.

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    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism

    To The Atypical Indian Male

    February 21, 2010October 5, 2023
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    A peaceful opening to the atypical Indian male – Please listen.

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  Twory: Equal Sins
    Digital World | Fiction | Relationships

    Twory: Equal Sins

    February 18, 2010February 25, 2025
    5 Comments

    The challenge was to write a 140-word story about Twitter on a timer. I call this a twory and it was written in 14 minutes. It’s about Equal Sins.

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    Fiction

    Tiny Tales: The Winning Point

    February 16, 2010October 5, 2023
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    A short story about winning (or not). Completely fictional characters but based on my own experiences on the campus festival circuit when I was younger.

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  The Sabbatical
    Digital World | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    The Sabbatical

    February 2, 2010April 14, 2024
    6 Comments

    Since I quit my job a little over six months ago, the one question I keep getting asked is, So what are you doing these days? Interesting isn’t it, how one’s career defines one’s life? At one point of time I used to resent the fact that my I was…

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    Home & Identity | Pop Culture

    Traveller’s Tales

    January 26, 2010October 5, 2023
    2 Comments

    What are traveller’s tales but our maps to our selves?

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    Books | Pop Culture

    The Writer On The Artist Spectrum

    January 24, 2010March 18, 2023
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    I think all artists need an audience. This is everyone from musicians to sculptors to painters. Everyone who has ever expressed an idea in tangible form or otherwise has needed an audience. To those who disagree – if they didn’t, then they’d just keep the idea in their own heads….

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    Map Of Emotion

    First Blood

    January 21, 2010March 30, 2025
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    Last night I was trying to sleep but a stupid mosquito kept buzzing in my ear. This despite the fact that the mosquito repellent is plugged in just above my head. WTF happened to MMR (Mosquito Mortality Rate…I kid you not)??!! So I switched on the light to swat it….

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  Ideart: Rose Garden
    Pop Culture

    Ideart: Rose Garden

    January 19, 2010April 14, 2024
    1 Comment

    I painted a rose garden.

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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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