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    Digital World | Relationships

    The ‘It’s Complicated’ Relationship

    September 26, 2009October 28, 2024
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    We are a generation of options. ‘It’s complicated’ refers to everything in our lives. But is it just the men making it so?

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    Digital World | Map Of Emotion | WorkSpace

    NovelRace Week 10: Everything But The Novel

    September 23, 2009May 31, 2025
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    This week on Novelrace, I hit on everything but the novel itself. And I’m trying to eke out insights on writing from this bizarre disorientation.

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    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion

    The Whole Tooth & Nothing But The Tooth

    September 19, 2009September 10, 2025
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    A tooth extraction and some ouch ouch instead of wisdom.

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  • Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Market Day

    September 16, 2009September 17, 2023
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    Today I feel like I’m inside a wellthat no one’s looked down in ten years.And around and just outside the well,it’s Market Day The voices and the sounds, they reach me,blurring into each other and not discernible.It’s not noise, it isn’t sense eitherbut it is painful nostalgia, of what life…

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    Digital World | Poetry

    Anonymous

    September 14, 2009February 25, 2025
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    This was written (like most of my poetry) a long time back…a lifetime ago when I was anonymous. I’m posting this today to celebrate my own decision to give up the last vestige of my anonymity. So for those of you, my dear readers, who don’t know me yet, my…

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  • Digital World | WorkSpace

    Quoted In Mail Today Story On Social Networking: “Scraps pip tweets”

    September 13, 2009February 25, 2025
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    Neha Tara Mehta has written a very interesting article for Mail Today about social networking in India. She looks at the popularity of Orkut, Facebook and Twitter as well as the attitudes of their various subscriber groups. I along with several other bloggers including the ‘ooh-I-wish-he-wasn’t-gay’ Harish Iyer and WATblog…

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  “Addicted To The Internet?” – Quoted In Sunday Hindustan Times
    Digital World | WorkSpace

    “Addicted To The Internet?” – Quoted In Sunday Hindustan Times

    September 10, 2009March 16, 2023
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    I was quoted in Neha Bhayana’s story about Internet addiction & restricting net connectivity in Sunday Hindustan Times on 6 September 2009. Reformed Net addicts Ramya (30) and Moksh Juneja (27) said that there is no need to have regulations. “Adults should be allowed to decide what is best for…

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    I Style! – The BEST Man

    September 9, 2009March 29, 2025
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    I spotted Neil Dantas at The Wall Project and I just had to stop him to tell him just how I Style! he was! Isn’t his tee-shirt absolutely fab? It’s Bambaiyya in a way that nothing else starts to match.For the uninitiated, BEST, an acronym for Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and…

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    Digital World | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism | WorkSpace

    NovelRace Week 9: Taking A Stand

    September 5, 2009February 25, 2025
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    This week’s NovelRace revelation happened in conversation with friend Rehab when she asked how to deal with a topic that might become controversial.

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    Twitter Story For Marie Claire India Sept’ 09

    September 3, 2009February 25, 2025
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    I wrote an article about Twitter which was published in the September 2009 issue of Marie Claire, which has just come out on the stands right now. If you’re already an avid Tweeter, it won’t say anything that you don’t know already. If you’re a techie, you’ll probably turn your…

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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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