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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
    1 Comment

    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
    5 Comments

    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

    January 19, 2010April 14, 2024
    1 Comment

    I painted a rose garden.

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  • Digital World

    Twitter Gandhigiri

    January 17, 2010March 30, 2025
    1 Comment

    Come join the charity drive in honour of @tbitch
    who suffers deeply from a lack of a sense of humour and originality.

    Share a funny joke (not a mean one)
    or an original idea with her at @tbitch.

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    Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    That Kind Of Guy & The Women Who Get Over Him

    January 16, 2010October 5, 2023
    3 Comments

    My friend and I accidentally stumbled onto a kind of male predator when we fell into crosstalk and realised we were talking about the same person.

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    Fiction | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism

    Rockstar

    January 15, 2010March 23, 2026
    2 Comments

    This was based on a writing exercise on a secret: “Always dreamed of being a lead guitarist and performing with Sting”. So I tapped my inner Rockstar.

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    Body & Sex | Books | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Guilt-Reading

    January 9, 2010April 14, 2024
    2 Comments

    I hate it when writers pull stunts like that, making a book sound like something else in its title. I only bought it because the blurb described it as the male ‘Sex And The City’.

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  • Map Of Emotion

    You Aren’t Being My Friend

    January 3, 2010March 17, 2023
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    To my friends in so many places, I’m upset. Badly so. I’m not okay with your calling me only when you have problems in your love life. I’m struck even worse by the fact that you have no time to hear about my love life problems or worse, that you…

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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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