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  • Free Mona Lisa masterpiece by Leonardo
    Fiction | Poetry | Pop Culture

    Why Mona Lisa Smiled

    May 5, 2008September 17, 2023
    12 Comments

    Who is the Mona Lisa talking to?

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  • water drop photo
    City | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism

    The Wealth of Water

    April 24, 2008April 14, 2024
    13 Comments

    When I was a kid, I remember a huge tin drum standing right next to our kitchen sink. It was taller than I was and was used to store water. Water, precious water, worth everything in summer. Do I exaggerate? I was around 5 or 6 then. Old enough to…

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  • Map Of Emotion

    Orange Sundays

    April 22, 2008April 11, 2024
    6 Comments

    An old post…one that I didn’t deem ‘good enough’ for publishing. But now I think the rawest, deepest expressions are probably the best. And anonymous or not, this blog has been about my personal expression. So here it it…the year that was. I’m glad to get it off my mind….

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  A Leaf Out Of Someone Else’s Book
    Books | City | Pop Culture | Roving I

    A Leaf Out Of Someone Else’s Book

    April 11, 2008March 29, 2025
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    It’s hard to supress that innate sense of superiority in pulling out a book and placing it in the ‘right’ stack along with others in the genre. So pop fiction to the sides, classics in the middle, bestsellers on top. Then realisation strikes that the dynamics of cataloguing work differently in a street-stall.

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  It’s Either Forgive or Forget
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Pop Culture

    It’s Either Forgive or Forget

    April 1, 2008April 14, 2024
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    How do you truly forgive when you cannot forget?

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  Birthday lessons
    Body & Sex | Relationships

    Birthday lessons

    March 31, 2008March 30, 2025
    10 Comments

    I had an interesting set of gifts on my twenty-first birthday.

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  • Fiction | Home & Identity

    Memoirs Of A Story-teller

    March 27, 2008March 14, 2023
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    I saw a tag floating around and decided to write my own memoirs in 6 words: I strove for individuality, then acceptance.

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  • Books | Pop Culture

    Black and White and Red

    March 26, 2008March 14, 2023
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    She may have watched Gone with the Wind too many times since she only dresses in black and white. A reflection of the way she thinks. And she supposes that a penchant for red lipstick makes her friend, a close affiliate to Bozo the clown. Bozo reasons that someone who reads Kundera and Murakami,…

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  • Fiction

    A Cube of Ecstacy

    March 22, 2008September 16, 2023
    4 Comments

    Her fingers paused on the edge of the key-stroke. The ceasing of the rapidfire tap-clackety-clack-tap of her keyboard sounded very loud and she glanced up guiltily to see who had noticed. No one had, apparantly, so she breathed in a slow rush of air, settling that odd fear to rest…

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  • adnan
    Digital World | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    A Village To Raise A Child – Scarlette Keeling & Adnan Patrawala

    March 16, 2008April 14, 2024
    8 Comments

    On February 18, a fifteen-year-old British tourist called Scarlette Keeling was found dead on Anjuna Beach, Goa. Death by drowning was the initial statement by the police.

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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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