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  • Mumbai city collage
    City | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism

    Who You Are By Where You Are: Mumbai ’s Location Politics

    February 4, 2025April 22, 2025
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    Mumbai ’s location politics define class, identity & belonging. These are thrown into chaos when public infrastructure builds access.

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  • AI Woman reassuring another woman
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism

    Navigating A Flawed Mental Health Dialogue in India

    January 24, 2025May 29, 2025
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    Indian mental health is tangled with politics, faith & toxic advocacy. From yoga myths to therapy cliques, mental healthcare needs cultural context.

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  • AI Indian mental health
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity

    The Indian Mental Health Circus: Is Therapy For India?

    January 21, 2025May 31, 2025
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    Indian mental health is tangled in privilege & stigma. Therapy may not be the plug-and-play, ‘one size fits all’ solution. It needs accountability.

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  • Midge Daniels Don Draper Mad Men
    Body & Sex | Pop Culture

    Mad Men: How Midge in ‘SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES’ Shaped Don’s Love Life

    January 11, 2025January 11, 2025
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    Before the affairs and chaos, there was Midge Daniels. Did their relationship shape Don Draper’s tragic journey through love and power?

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  • AI Feels this week podcast book music
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    The Feels This Week: Curating Comfort & Moving Moments

    January 6, 2025January 6, 2025
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    Curating moments of inspiration, music, and reflections that spark joy, soothe pain, and celebrate the beauty of simply being moved. The feels this week!

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  • White feather on water
    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    The Gentle Goodbye: Embracing Clean Endings In Life

    January 3, 2025April 19, 2025
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    2024 was the year I embraced the art of the clean goodbye —free of regret, pain, and drama. Why do we make goodbyes so complicated? (Audio included)

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  • Akvarious It’s a wonderful life christmas tree
    Map Of Emotion

    It’s A Wonderful George Bailey Goodbye To 2024

    December 29, 2024January 1, 2025
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    2024 brought grim lessons in resilience. A Christmas Eve play ‘It’s a wonderful life’ made me think of the miracles even in this.

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  • Elif Shafak Island of Missing trees, Bastard of Istanbul, Honour books
    Books | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism

    BOOK REVIEW: Elif Shafak’s The Bastard Of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, The Island Of Missing Trees & Honour

    December 23, 2024March 10, 2025
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    Elif Shafak’s focus on women of color makes her work compelling. Her novels trace her evolution from young feminist angst to mature compassion.

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  The Safest City: Mumbai 26/11 Terror Attacks
    City | Poetry | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | WorkSpace

    The Safest City: Mumbai 26/11 Terror Attacks

    November 27, 2024November 27, 2024
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    In 2008, the city that raised me became a battlefield. This is my story of Mumbai during the 26/11 terror attacks. Through the eyes of one of its citizens.

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    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | WorkSpace

    Mad Men: THE SUMMER MAN – How A Woman Navigates Power

    November 4, 2024November 6, 2024
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    The Mad Men episode ‘The Summer Man’ brings up insights about how each woman navigates power & microggressions in the workplace.

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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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