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    Telling All

    June 19, 2007April 14, 2024
    4 Comments

    For Shreyasi, who understands what I don’t say as well. And for the person this conversation happened with. ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ How are things? What things? You know…are you dating anybody? I haven’t heard you talk about any women. I haven’t liked any women. Turn left here, it’s around the corner. What…

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  • girl
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Little Girl With Big Dreams

    June 19, 2007March 10, 2023
    1 Comment

    I might have missed this news if Best Friend hadn’t told me about it. I was horrified. I knew her when she was still a starry-eyed teenager. She was one of those tall, slender girls who carry themselves straight-backed and everyone else thinks they’re being snooty. But she wasn’t. She…

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  Tropical Sky
    City | Roving I

    Tropical Sky

    June 17, 2007March 29, 2025
    3 Comments

    I know this is a slight bit late but what’s a week in a season of three months? My last impression of summer…doesn’t this look like one of those colourful photographs you see in Readers’ Digest about exotic Asian countries? Umm..of course we’re exotic and Asian as well. But I’m…

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  I Style! – Designer
    City | Pop Culture

    I Style! – Designer

    June 15, 2007March 11, 2023
    9 Comments

    I saw a girl on the train carrying this bag that caught my eye. I asked her if I could take a picture of it and she agreed. A little surprised perhaps and guarded as anyone would be in this city of callous strangers but agreeable nevertheless. K (I forgot…

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  • Relationships

    The Mummy Returns

    June 15, 2007March 30, 2025
    1 Comment

    Even after my own parents throw up their hands in despair at my marital status (or the lack of it) and stop bugging me, there are others who will persist, good intentions intact. The results are sometimes howl-a-rious. See here: Oh dear, who will tell her that saying “I like…

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  The Roads Of Change
    City | Roving I

    The Roads Of Change

    June 13, 2007March 29, 2025
    3 Comments

    It is always time for a change.

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  • Love symbol, heart, valentine photo
    Poetry | Relationships

    Just One Day

    June 12, 2007September 17, 2023
    2 Comments

    This one is for the people I’ve held in a mental embrace, without letting them know. Maybe someday I will. Maybe tomorrow will be that day.

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  Even More Flowers
    City | Roving I

    Even More Flowers

    June 10, 2007March 29, 2025
    10 Comments

    Soon, very soon….the rains will be here, the festivities will began and there will be even more flowers!

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  • Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Single-itis

    June 9, 2007April 14, 2024
    3 Comments

    Being single in the city – by gender.

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  • Fiction

    55-Words: Bar-Frog

    June 6, 2007September 16, 2023
    6 Comments

    Hungover on reality….Or high on illusion?Life is nothing more than a visit to the bar! What’s your poison tonight, sir? How about a cocktail of the two? Coming up …. one average human being on the rocks. No, hold the ice, give it to me neat.. Impossible, the ice keeps…

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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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