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  Coup In The Ladies’ Coupe On A Mumbai Train
    City

    Coup In The Ladies’ Coupe On A Mumbai Train

    October 13, 2007April 14, 2024
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    The newspaper tells of a change in the Mumbai train system that brought on the ire of the ladies. And they won the battle.

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  Coup In The Ladies’ Coupe
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    Coup In The Ladies’ Coupe

    October 13, 2007April 14, 2024
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    One little corner in the newspaper tells of a tussle between women commuters and the Mumbai railway authorities. Apparently as a part of a new range of services on Mumbai’s Harbour line, the earlier timetable has been altered. The hitherto 9:14 a.m. Vashi-CST local was advanced by one minute. Not…

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  • disloyal man with jealous girlfriend looking at another girl meme
    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture | Relationships

    The Past and His Present: Douche Ex Machina

    October 13, 2007November 11, 2023
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    An Ex has an uncanny way of showing up when you’re least prepared. Often with a new human appendage designed to hit you worse. It’s Diabolus Ex Machina.

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    City | Fiction

    Sucker For Sob Stories

    October 13, 2007March 30, 2025
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    She’s generous. Just bring her a great deal of stories. But he knew that already.

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  All You Need Is Love *
    Books | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture | Relationships

    All You Need Is Love *

    October 12, 2007December 29, 2023
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    We’d rather be immortalized as heroes or villains in history than survive the daily mundane. Love makes us fools.

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  Candlelight
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Candlelight

    October 9, 2007September 17, 2023
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    When someone opens a window inside you and holds up candlelight.

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  Turquoise Nights
    Map Of Emotion

    Turquoise Nights

    October 6, 2007March 21, 2023
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    We live in cold storage during the week, shutting away emotions, fears, aches and fevers till such a time that we can experience them ‘on our own time’.

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  • Body & Sex | WorkSpace

    PMS

    October 6, 2007July 3, 2024
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    While PMS is no excuse for bad behavior, it is an experience that no woman is proud of. It isn’t funny to be at the mercy of chemicals that your own body produces and whose side-effects science has still been unable to find an adequate solution to. Quite alarming to…

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  Refuge
    City | Roving I

    Refuge

    October 3, 2007March 29, 2025
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    Wet weather, and cold drops trickle down the back of my neck. And the roads are slippery. Still, I seek refuge. The nasty wet rain says to me, Oops, I missed a spot! in mock-sheepishness. And so you did!! I mock-retort back and supress a smile. There are places even…

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  • Fables - Bill Willingham
    Books | Home & Identity | Poetry | Politics & Feminism

    Once Upon Every Time

    October 2, 2007September 17, 2023
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    As I read a story about fairytale characters in New York, my childhood comes back to me. I remember why my fanciful notions were set that way. I’m angry.

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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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