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    Map Of Emotion

    When A Writer Chooses Boundaries

    March 2, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I don’t want to be good at letting people hurt me. I’m pondering the word ‘boundaries’.

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  • Ramya in pink dress and glass beads looking upwards pensively.
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    Flying Solo

    March 2, 2020August 14, 2023
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    I choose to believe in flight, to want it and to reach for it. I choose to fly. I choose to fly solo.

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  • Ramya in grey saree, white top, obi belt
    Pop Culture

    I Wear: My Tribe Identity

    February 27, 2020February 25, 2025
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    The saree expresses the feminine and the individualistic with strength and without aggression. It’s my tribe.

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  Dirty Talk
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    Dirty Talk

    February 24, 2020April 23, 2023
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    Real talk is dirty. It’s not that I have forgotten stage fright.

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  5 Lessons From A Bad Haircut
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity

    5 Lessons From A Bad Haircut

    February 20, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I got a painfully bad haircut. What could I do? Would throwing a tantrum change it? Instead, I learnt.

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  Whirling Dervish
    Books | Poetry | Pop Culture

    Whirling Dervish

    February 17, 2020September 17, 2023
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    I hope the whirling never ends. Then I remember, nothing is endless.

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  • Ramya, Rajni, Kavan on Alphabet Sambar Storyseekers walking
    Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Women Walking

    February 12, 2020March 26, 2025
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    The bonds between women are downplayed, disrupted and even villified.

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  • Ramya petting a dog in a pet store
    Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism

    What Dogs Teach Me About Boundaries

    February 12, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I’ve never thought of myself as a dog person. I was chased by a dog in my youth and another one later. I’ve held my breath trying to quell panic through dog-owners insisting that their pets are harmless babies, that I shouldn’t worry and that anybody who hates dogs is…

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  My Top 3 Everything
    Books | Digital World | Map Of Emotion

    My Top 3 Everything

    February 10, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I did this on Instagram. I was touched by the sensitivity of the questions asked. It helped me shift the heaviness of my heart.

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  Strong Woman
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    Strong Woman

    February 6, 2020March 21, 2025
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    It is the face of a woman that the world likes to call a Strong Woman. It is a tired look. A jaded look. A bored look. A dismissive look.

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  • IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “@Harshaman: What a delightful set of throwbacks it was to receive this comment! First, to the days when one would…”
  • Harshaman on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “Which for me means, looking back at the past with a discerning and curatorial eye I had been thinking about…”
  • Neha Kapoor on Unlikeable Women: It’s Okay To Dislike Her, But Respect Her: “You always have such good book recommendations!”
  • 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…”

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