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    A Moral Dilemma: Being PC Gay Ally, Not A Tease

    October 14, 2009February 25, 2025
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    I was preyed on by someone hiding behind the rainbow flag. It made me introspect on what is prejudice and what is instinct. The moral dilemma continues.

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    Trust, Actually

    October 9, 2009March 16, 2023
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    If I’m a fool to trust you, what does that say about you? ~O~O~O~O~O~O~ Nobody’s born suspicious. We trust because we think other people are the way we are. Then someone hurts us and we think everyone else is that way. Treat every suspicious person you meet, gently. Maybe they’ve…

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    I Style! – Going Places, Well-Equipped!

    October 8, 2009April 14, 2024
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    Landmark is having their annual sale! Of course you knew that if you are a book-lover in this city. But did you know that they don’t just have their regular (great!) books on sale but also a load of cool stuff as well? Check out what I picked up for…

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  “Web” Column For Marie Claire India Oct’09: E-Social Interactions
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    “Web” Column For Marie Claire India Oct’09: E-Social Interactions

    October 6, 2009March 16, 2023
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    After a story about Twitter for Marie Claire India in Sept’09, I have a piece on social interaction and being a safe netizen in the Oct’09 issue, which is out on the stands now. I’d love to hear your comments and also your thoughts, if any, on other internet-related topics…

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    Motherhood – The Great Indian Relationship & The Only One

    October 6, 2009July 8, 2025
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    It’s easy to blame Raja Betas on poor motherhood . But ‘Wake Up Sid’ made me realise that Indian women are molded into a peculiar kind of motherhood.

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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…”
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  • 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…”
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