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    Office Capers: Playing Telephone Operator

    January 31, 2006March 30, 2025
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    Naya Bachcha (NB) is a tricky bugger. Several months after induction, training, rubbing elbows in the cramped quarters of work (before we shifted to our spacious, spacey office), running over each other’s toes with our swivel-chairs in this new place…..all this while later I still can’t tell if he has…

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    Home & Identity | WorkSpace

    Getting Ready To Run

    January 23, 2006March 30, 2025
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    Navigating post-grad life: Realistic insights on career, networking, success, mid-twenties reflections to facing the quarter-life crisis.

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    Office Capers: Corporate Communication

    January 21, 2006March 30, 2025
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    At office, everyone I need to talk to is within shouting distance. The cubicles are arranged in a grid layout like most other offices in the world. And inside them sit all kinds of people. Those like me who like to be seen AND heard. And others, whose expressions are…

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    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    On Cheating and Other Such Sparkly Things

    January 17, 2006March 4, 2023
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    I think the world can be easily divided into two types in a lot of ways. One of them is this: Those who cheat and those who don’t.

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    The Lift (and The Travails Of Tuesday)

    January 11, 2006December 30, 2023
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    Explore the unexpected twists of a Tuesday morning in this suspenseful tale. A lift that defies logic, shadows in a bustling metro & strange luck.

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    The Myth Of Chivalry

    January 1, 2006April 18, 2025
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    From medieval principles to today’s gender dynamics, what’s the true essence of respect, courtesy, and gallantry? What is chivalry in a modern world?

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    About An Idea: Meenaxi

    December 28, 2005March 4, 2023
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    Meenaxi: A tale of 3 cities I saw the movie last year and now a few days back again. I liked it. No, I didn’t like the movie, I like the thought it explored. Minaxi was not a story being told. It was the story of how a story begins….

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    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    The Older Woman In A Relationship

    December 23, 2005March 4, 2023
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    A lot of men admit to having been attracted to an older woman at some point of time in their lives. Whether it was the adolescent yearnings towards the teacher/neighbor’s wife/friend’s mother or the preference in the later years for mature women (whether it is actualized or not), there definitely…

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    A Wish-List At Each Age: 20 Years Of Me

    December 17, 2005January 1, 2024
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    My journey through the years traced in a different wish-list at each age – from childhood innocence to adult aspirations.

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    Bike Rides

    December 16, 2005March 4, 2023
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    Lunch was nice today. Something other than canteen food. A colleague and I made a quick trip to the nearest Subway to pick up sandwiches. It has been a long time since my last bike ride. I still love them. I have never owned a bike myself…never needed to. All…

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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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