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Poetry

POEM: An Ode To Red
March 19, 2005September 17, 2023
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Red is the colour.

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Waiting For The Bus
March 19, 2005March 30, 2025
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Human Resources Person (HRP):1. is enjoying the dust-flecked, polluted breeze that surrounds the bus-stop at 6:30 pm.2. is groaning inwardly and trying not to think of another Saturday spent in soothing the nerves of edgy candidates and massaging the egos of the powers-that-be3. is mumbling about the hare-brainedness of people…

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Life of a Human Resources Person
March 19, 2005March 30, 2025
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Human Resources – do we love them or do we hate them?

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City

A Song Of colour
March 16, 2005March 4, 2023
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Main aur mera camera
Aksar yeh baatein karte hain…
Mere dono sheher are tributes to colour

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Poetry

Human Being
March 14, 2005September 17, 2023
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What’s a Human Being?

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Poetry | Relationships

Validation
March 10, 2005September 17, 2023
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What’s validation between us?

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Map Of Emotion | Poetry

Ride Of Life
March 9, 2005September 17, 2023
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Who is along for the ride?

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Poetry

Power Struggles
March 4, 2005September 17, 2023
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Power struggles over the phone

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Body & Sex | Poetry | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

Countdown To The 28th Day
February 27, 2005September 17, 2023
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D – day to D – day is just 28 days.

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Books | City | Pop Culture

A Visit To The Bookstore
February 22, 2005January 11, 2024
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A trip to the Oxford bookstore yields some cynical trends about readers and the publishing industry and ends in a befuddling find.

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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…”
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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…”