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  An Any Person
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    An Any Person

    May 15, 2019February 25, 2025
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    Who are you when there isn’t anyone around to recognise you? Do you know this person?

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    Goodnight Mumbai, My City Self

    May 12, 2019February 25, 2025
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    Mumbai defines me and in my being, I add to the millions that define this city.

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    Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    The ‘Only If You’re Sad’ Guy

    May 10, 2019February 25, 2025
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    There’s a certain kind of man who gets off on sad women. It’s an entire trope – The Depressed/Tortured/Troubled/Damsel-in-distress that the guy ‘rescues’ with minimal emotional investment by clowning around. He is not a Manic Pixie Dream Guy. No, the original in that trope is not a person and only…

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  Every Meeting With You Is A Date
    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Every Meeting With You Is A Date

    May 9, 2019August 28, 2023
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    I’m going to treat every meeting like it is a date. Here’s what it means. Here’s why I mean it. A date.

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    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Slime

    May 4, 2019February 25, 2025
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    It’s precarious because what can balance atop slime for very long?

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  • Ramya in queen pose in red saree
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Pop Culture

    Angry Girl Of Indie Rock Persuasion

    May 3, 2019September 4, 2023
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    I was an angry girl of the Indian rock persuasion in a saree.

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  • Ramya in the darkness looking up
    Body & Sex | Books | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    The Last Beating Heart

    April 30, 2019February 25, 2025
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    I don’t know if you ever have days when you feel like you’re the only beating heart in the world.

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    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    Say HELP!

    April 27, 2019February 25, 2025
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    I’m reclaiming the ability to ask for help.

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  • Ramya with hair flying in sweater and scarf, blue sky background
    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion

    The 30s Are A PostWar Dream

    April 24, 2019February 25, 2025
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    The 30s are early midlife crisis after the disillusionment of the 20s.

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  • Ramya at IIT Bombay in orange pants looking up at board smiling
    Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism

    A Bowl Of Soup For Hungry Minds

    April 19, 2019February 25, 2025
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    Knowledge is food for hungry minds.

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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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