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    Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Sensitive

    November 13, 2008September 18, 2023
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    Sensitive is simply how much you allow yourself to. To illustrate, a poem from long ago. Who do you suppose is being referred to here?

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  • Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Older And Wiser

    November 10, 2008September 17, 2023
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    “Does it get better?” she asks. She thinks because I’m older, I’ll also be wiser. Can I give her an honest answer?

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  • Fiction | Home & Identity

    I’m Jill ‘s Social Microscope

    November 6, 2008November 3, 2023
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    Lunch at the cafe, alone. At long last. My thoughts and I dine together. I’m Jill and I want lunch. The host wants me to sit in any one of the dingy corners and ignore the brighter, roomier booths in the centre. I make a wry face so he concedes…

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    Relationships | WorkSpace

    The Office Spouse

    November 1, 2008September 16, 2023
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    Who’s your Office Spouse? Mine is the voice you hear even before mine.

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  • City | Politics & Feminism

    Smooth Traffic & Funny Mails: Thank You, Mr.Thackeray

    October 22, 2008May 2, 2026
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    Raj Thackeray was arrested yesterday. Ho hum, so what else is new? I woke up to the news channels airing footage shot hours ago, of the MNS chief being escorted into the police van at Ratnagiri and a few fancy-looking maps showing blinking dots in the areas of Borivili, Andheri,…

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  • Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Things I Wrote At Sea

    October 19, 2008October 29, 2023
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    I sailed the sea to the Greek islands and Turkey, promising myself I wouldn’t blog or stress or do any of my usual. Two days in, I reached for my pen.

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    Finding My Religion

    September 24, 2008October 29, 2023
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    I spotted this on the Mains and Crosses blog a while ago. I must stop to explain why I picked up this picture and decided to write a post about it. I am not religious; haven’t been for many years now. That picture is not visible on the blog anymore…

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  Not A Nice Girl
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity

    Not A Nice Girl

    September 17, 2008October 29, 2023
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    Being a nice girl comes with much social currency. But is being nice really that strong a moral virtue? I think not. And here’s why.

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    Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Just An Indian Man

    August 25, 2008May 31, 2024
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    “He isn’t quite a male chauvinist, just an Indian man.” said a review about a character. What does this mean? I looked at the men in my life through this lens.

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  I Style! – Beautiful Buggers
    Pop Culture | Roving I

    I Style! – Beautiful Buggers

    August 19, 2008March 29, 2025
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    We do seem to have a rather strong foot festish here at I Style!, don’t we? Hmm, it seems to me like the only place we’re truly comfortable tucking away our individual style, is under our feet. The shoe-mania continues with something I spotted in one of the Catwalk stores…

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