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  Outside Fairytales
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Outside Fairytales

    January 2, 2010September 17, 2023
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    Some day perhaps I will be in love. And it will be better than the fairytales.

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  • City | Digital World | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    2009: Happy & Counting

    December 31, 2009February 25, 2025
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    So it’s that time of the year again, the time to take stock and look back. Funnily enough, for a compulsive organizer/list-maker like me, it isn’t coming naturally this time round. Even funnier considering it isn’t just year end but decade end and actually end of the first decade of…

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  • City | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism

    The Bangalore Story

    December 27, 2009April 14, 2024
    7 Comments

    I came to Bangalore over 10 years back. I was falling in love. Not with a person or even a place. I was really, completely, truly committing myself to life. I was 19. I had just weathered a tempestuous adolescence culminating in my dropping out of college. Then I licked…

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    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    Christmas

    December 24, 2009March 17, 2023
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    I was talking to  Ajay about attending midnight mass tomorrow. He asked me why I was attending. Here’s why. I grew up in a predominantly Christian area. My neighbors were a family of three very creative daughters. All of December was spent creating paper flowers, eggshell-and-confetti buds, tinsel-and-thermacol cutouts. All…

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  • Map Of Emotion

    Goodbyes And Other Wounds

    December 23, 2009October 5, 2023
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    Not a good time. Not a good mood. December always gets me down. Even though the fabulousness of my life must make me seem like a crank for complaining. It’s too many people, too many expectations, too much to consider and keep track of. They say a man (person) is…

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  • Paa film with Abhishek Bachchan and Amitabh Bachchan
    Pop Culture

    Paa – The Self-Absorbedness Of Bachchanalia

    December 20, 2009July 15, 2025
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    HT Cafe’s summary of Paa goes as follows: Auro (Amitabh Bachchan) is an intelligent, witty 13-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic defect that causes accelerated ageing. Mentally he is 13, but physically he looks five times older. He lives with his mother Vidya (Vidya Balan), who is a gynaecologist….

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  • Pop Culture

    Repartee

    December 17, 2009March 30, 2025
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    (Click to see the full idea-toon) Based on a true story! Okay, only a part of it…my words, that is. Mercifully the guy (unlike the cartoon dude) is smart enough to get the point and wise enough to guffaw. But for those specimens that are not and who guile you…

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  • three bottles of honey
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Closure Is Your Own Secret Recipe

    December 16, 2009March 17, 2023
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    I learnt something about closure

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  • ereader books near green leafed plant
    Books | Digital World | Pop Culture

    Debating On UTV Bloomberg Techtree – eBooks vs Real Books

    December 9, 2009February 25, 2025
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    I was featured on UTV Bloomberg defending ‘real books’ in the advent of Amazon Kindle and eBooks. My opponent was Shakti Salagaonkar.

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    Politics & Feminism | Relationships | WorkSpace

    Should The Girl Ask The Guy Out?

    December 7, 2009October 5, 2023
    22 Comments

    Being the woman taking charge means one is playing an unusual role and there’s ample scope to be misunderstood. So should a girl ask the guy out?

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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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