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    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    Not According To Plan

    April 10, 2009April 14, 2024
    32 Comments

    I wasn’t a cool kid or a hip teenager. But I had a plan. A decade later, I look back and wonder, how did things turn out so differently?

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    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    The Game Plan (The Perfect Life)

    April 9, 2009October 19, 2023
    12 Comments

    I had a game plan for the perfect life. I made it when I was 17 and it spanned to my 48th birthday. It factored career, finances, relationships & creativity.

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    Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Relationships | WorkSpace

    Three-Quarterly Review

    April 8, 2009April 14, 2024
    2 Comments

    While everyone in the accounts departments sits heavy on numbers and does a stock-taking quarter-by-quarter of the year that was, it occurs to me to do the same with my life. Except this is a three-quarterly review. Of my 29th year. I’ll be 30 this July and it’s an odd…

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  Juhu Beach
    City | Roving I

    Juhu Beach

    April 7, 2009March 29, 2025
    5 Comments

    Last evening I was overcome by an urge to eat chana masala, the buttery over-spicy type, all covered with raw mango chunks and unidentified (but delicious) stuff on top. The Juhu beach variety. And while at it, bring on a naariyalpaani as well. Why not I asked myself (and oh…

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  Quoted In Mail Today: Ignore The Abusers And Keep Blogging Ladies – Harassment, Inacceptable
    Digital World | Politics & Feminism | WorkSpace

    Quoted In Mail Today: Ignore The Abusers And Keep Blogging Ladies – Harassment, Inacceptable

    March 25, 2009January 15, 2025
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    Mail Today carried a story today on women bloggers and the problems we face in blogging. Yours truly has been quoted alongside a number of promiment ladies on the blogosphere.  (Click the image below to see the full story) Some of you may recognize the trolly character I’ve mentioned in…

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    City | Pop Culture

    I Style! – A Cat Lands On Her Feet

    March 24, 2009October 19, 2023
    4 Comments

    These shoes belong to a media professional. She was hurrying to work two steps ahead of me on the railway bridge (if you don’t recognise the thread on the floor, you ain’t a true Mumbaiker!). But she stopped long enough to let me take a photograph of her feet and those…

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  • Body & Sex | Poetry

    Muse

    March 16, 2009April 11, 2024
    8 Comments

    Are you my muse? Or am I yours?

    I am the velvety slumber that lets you meet your imprisoned self. I am also the jailer of that prisoner.

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    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Material Girl

    March 1, 2009October 19, 2023
    8 Comments

    As I step out, Madonna’s ‘Material Girl’ plays in my head. I’m going to own a diamond. But this time, no boys are lining up to pay.

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  Roadkill On Memory Lane
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    Roadkill On Memory Lane

    February 26, 2009September 17, 2023
    6 Comments

    Did you ever hear the call of memory? That screeching wail of nostalgia, like tires on tar and you couldn’t help looking back, wondering if anybody died
    and realising it wasn’t you?

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  Office Space: A Different Home
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | WorkSpace

    Office Space: A Different Home

    February 21, 2009March 30, 2025
    1 Comment

    I spend most of my waking day at work. It is my home and the holder of my identity. How can the space not be important?

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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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