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    Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Future Fathers

    May 8, 2007March 8, 2023
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    My fact for the day tells me that: A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn’t eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about…

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    The Gateway To Mumbai

    May 6, 2007March 8, 2023
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    The gateway to Mumbai says, Come in, be yourself, make a home for yourself here and become a part of me. At least it used to. Before the anti-outsider sentiments, the religious fundamentalists and the terrorists made their presence felt. I wonder if the gate opens only to the West…

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    The Alarm

    May 6, 2007November 11, 2023
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    Long time it’s been since I wanted to say I hate you. It’s a violent, mad-bad, insane feeling. And it’s good. The capacity to hate stems from the capacity to love. You don’t always wake up in the most pleasant way possible….more often than not, being jolted awake, startled…..like having…

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    U-turns

    May 3, 2007November 24, 2023
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    I keep taking U-turns in life. If you knew where you wanted to really go, maybe you wouldn’t have to turn back. Can you make a U-turn on reclaimed land? Would that be re-reclaimed territory then? On another note, this clean, non-congested road is in Mumbai. And yes, in one…

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    Electra and Oedipus in Love

    May 3, 2007March 8, 2023
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    Electra: Let’s run together, you and ILike we used to when we were kidsI know we didn’t know each other, growing upBut who says we ever had to grow up?Let’s play catch and hide-and-seek Oedipus: Hold me close, hold me at arm’s lengthBut stay beautiful alwaysA home to come home…

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    Pain, Actually

    May 2, 2007April 11, 2024
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    Some people make you come to lifeIt’s like they make you feel so much moreAnd they do it by hurting you ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ Masochism isn’t that abnormal after allEveryone picks their scabs and healing bruises when they are kidsSome people just carry that behaviour into their emotions as well ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ And…

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    Painful thoughts

    May 2, 2007April 14, 2024
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    Some people make you come to lifeIt’s like they make you feel so much moreAnd they do it by hurting you ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ Masochism isn’t that abnormal after allEveryone picks their scabs and healing bruises when they are kidsSome people just carry that behaviour into their emotions as well ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ And…

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    Lost in Translation – I Don’t Understand

    May 2, 2007November 24, 2023
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    There are things about relationships that I don’t understand. We have words for some of them that sound as if they’re answers but I still don’t understand.

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    Electra and Oedipus on a date

    April 30, 2007April 14, 2024
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    Oedipus and Electra read the same books. Their playlists are very similar, just categorized and played differently. In fact they grew up a few miles from each other. And their parents may have met…they belong to the same circles. They’re both talkers and listeners. They are successful, friendly, well-liked by…

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    In Love With Life

    April 29, 2007March 26, 2023
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    I’m reading The Bridge across forever. Books, just like people, some you ride along with for awhile, some you fall in love with the first time you meet and every meeting thereafter is a joy. And some, exactly like people, happen to you and life is like magic from then…

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