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    Almost Normal – A Book At The Kala Ghoda Art Festival

    February 4, 2008November 10, 2023
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    The Kala Ghoda Art Festival this year takes me back to my campus days of festival-hopping. Make the trip for one event, bump into a whole lot of people who on reflection you know just will be there, catch another event completely on impulse and in general have a phlethora…

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  KGAF – The Early Bird Gets A Ride On The Black Horse!
    City | Pop Culture | WorkSpace

    KGAF – The Early Bird Gets A Ride On The Black Horse!

    February 4, 2008November 10, 2023
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    KGAF is Mela meets Social Awareness and they both get a lift from Commercial Sponsors to go to the Arty Party.

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    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | WorkSpace

    A Voice That Shatters Glass…The Glass Ceiling!

    February 2, 2008July 3, 2024
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    I was an amateur singer in college. Inadvertently, the campus festivals also became my ground for shattering glass celings with my voice.

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  • Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Hair Raising On The Tube

    January 31, 2008November 27, 2024
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    I’m practically de-sensitized to the trash overload from the television set. After all.. Got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from… But every now and then there comes along something that makes me sit up and take notice. It would have been a normal, frenzied rush-hour day…

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    Beauty Parlour

    January 26, 2008March 30, 2025
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    Planning a rendezvous with a girlfriend. She is at the parlor and I have to wait till she gets done. I sit tight elsewhere and am most amused to hear her say, I think it will be an hour before I’m released!!! And if that sounds like parole from jail…

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    Books | City | Pop Culture

    A Bibliophile’s Guide To Mumbai

    January 24, 2008June 13, 2025
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    It’s January and time for all of Mumbai’s iconic events. After the Mumbai Marathon and the Mumbai Festival comes the Strand Book sale.

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  Barbie With A Brain
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    Barbie With A Brain

    January 22, 2008March 2, 2024
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    When I first chanced upon the Agony Aunt section in HT Cafe, I had to smile when I saw who was solving problems for the lovelorn. Kim Sharma!! Kim Sharma?? What sort of advice could she possibly give anyone? Then today I read an interview with her. You seem to…

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    Digital World | WorkSpace

    IM crazy

    January 17, 2008March 30, 2025
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    Today I got an email from a colleague titled, “IM not working.”

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  The Narcissa Of Hot
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    The Narcissa Of Hot

    January 16, 2008July 3, 2024
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    “That girl is hot!”

    “No, she is not.”

    “And you would know, would you? You don’t check out women.”

    “Says who? I check out women all the time.”

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    Toto, I don’t think we are in Mumbai anymore!

    January 14, 2008March 29, 2025
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    I accompanied a friend on a ‘window-shopping’ spree, scouting the city of Mumbai for the perfect place of land that she could call her own.

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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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