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    Map Of Emotion

    Agni

    June 29, 2009October 18, 2023
    10 Comments

    Random impressions of fire safety brochures used to lie around the house. All of them came flooding in when Agni came visiting.

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  • City | Poetry | Relationships

    Athens To Mumbai

    June 24, 2009September 17, 2023
    2 Comments

    Athens,sleeps outside my window tonightAnd so do you, a sea and a continent awayNo camera can capture,nor words describe what my eyes see In the city of the virgin goddess, a mortal woman sleeps alone. ~O~O~O~O~ A year later, in a city of no sleep and too much sex, she…

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  • white notebook and yellow pencil novelrace
    Digital World | Pop Culture | WorkSpace

    NovelRace

    June 22, 2009February 25, 2025
    8 Comments

    The literary world is never boring. And social media is never quiet. Put them together and what have we? My new passion is the NovelRace.

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  • Pop Culture

    I Style! – Slippery Skullduggery

    June 20, 2009April 11, 2024
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    We continue the foot fetish at I Style!. I’m getting rather tired of saying it but we really express our secret, colourful side only on our feet! Still, they do say that you can tell a person by his/her shoes. So here goes a very young lady who traipsed into…

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  • watercolours
    Poetry | Pop Culture

    Inspiration

    June 20, 2009September 17, 2023
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    I found this piece I wrote dated 20 February 2002. I was doodling about inspiration in the back bench of a classroom.

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  • Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Haiku: Time, The Healer

    June 17, 2009September 17, 2023
    3 Comments

    The water of indifferencewears away eventhe ragged cliffs of pain ~O~O~O~O~ Walls crumbleI watch the dust flyEven my anger cannot defy time ~O~O~O~O~ Pain was powerto create new life, afterThe bigger magic is that even that ends

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  • shrek prince charming
    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    The Death Of Prince Charming

    June 13, 2009October 18, 2023
    6 Comments

    It occurs to me that I’m in the final stages of recuperation. Or rather, I’m like someone who was ill for a very long time without knowing it, then hospitalised, recovered, had a relapse and is now watching the last of the scabs fall off, the scars fade away. Melodramatic,…

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    Books | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Things It Never Occurred To Me To Wish For

    June 10, 2009October 18, 2023
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    I made a gameplan for my life at 17. Nothing went according to that plan. Most of all, I didn’t even think to wish for some of the bounty.

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  • Ageing grey woman
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    A Grey Hair Or Two

    June 1, 2009April 11, 2024
    10 Comments

    I found my first grey hair last month. I started screaming. I don’t know what surprised me more, the grey hair or my reaction to it. I always thought I’d age gracefully. I always imagined that I wasn’t vain. I guess I had also assumed that I would be doing…

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    Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    I Say I’m Fine

    June 1, 2009October 18, 2023
    3 Comments

    Rambler raises an interesting question in the comments. I have been pondering this. You know its interesting at the brink of relationship, twenty somethings like me, really have this question. Men have always been known to not trust women, and women on the other hand trust men, but in this…

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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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