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  The Garden Of Eden Within
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity | WorkSpace

    The Garden Of Eden Within

    July 10, 2009July 3, 2024
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    Self care is like tending to an inner garden.

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  Katy And I
    Books | Map Of Emotion | WorkSpace

    Katy And I

    July 6, 2009July 22, 2024
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    My school had an interesting way of encouraging children to read. An annual Book Fair was held every year in a couple of the classrooms. After school-hours, parents coming to pick up their kids could buy those books. It was a much anticipated event for me and I’d go and…

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  • white notebook and yellow pencil novelrace
    Digital World | Home & Identity | WorkSpace

    NovelRace Week 2: Adventures Galore!

    July 5, 2009February 25, 2025
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    NovelRace, I’m very happy to note, is up and running well. It has been exactly a fortnight since I signed up and it has actually been an adventure so far.

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    Politics & Feminism

    Independent, Not Men-O-Phobic

    July 5, 2009October 18, 2023
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    I find myself in a hectic life, juggling plans, people and work. And none of these plans are centered around men. What does that make me now?

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  The Bandra-Worli Sealink Opening
    City | Politics & Feminism

    The Bandra-Worli Sealink Opening

    July 2, 2009April 11, 2024
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    The much awaited Bandra-Worli sealink opened yesterday. In the unlikely case that you don’t know what I’m talking about (in which case, what are you doing reading this post?), this is a bridge built across one of the bays between the islands that comprise Mumbai. It connects Bandra reclamation to…

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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
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    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, 2009May 2, 2026
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    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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    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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  • 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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