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  All That You’re Not
    Home & Identity | Poetry

    All That You’re Not

    April 16, 2019February 25, 2025
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    You are not other people’s expectations.

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  • Ramya in blue saree on Manisha's staircase looking up. Second best.
    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Second Best

    April 14, 2019August 28, 2023
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    I see you look with yearning eyes for people who don’t make time and space in their life for you. I’ll be there to remind you as second best.

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  • Prithvi stage before a play. A nice place to visit.
    City | Home & Identity | Pop Culture

    A Nice Place To Visit

    April 12, 2019February 25, 2025
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    If you were a place, where would you be?

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  • Ramya in a Versova bylane looking over her shoulder, hand in hair. Memory diving.
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Memory Diving

    April 3, 2019September 17, 2023
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    You may look back more often than the world tells you that you should. Maybe you should memory dive more.

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  • View of road from Chakala metro station. The kindness of strangers.
    City

    The Kindness Of Strangers

    April 1, 2019February 25, 2025
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    We buy into the myth of the cold cruelty of cities. Yet, we only find our loves & friendships in strangers.

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  Couples You See In Rom-Coms
    Body & Sex | Fiction | Relationships

    Couples You See In Rom-Coms

    March 30, 2019September 10, 2023
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    This is a writing experiment. The model in the featured image is my friend Anmol Karnik.

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  • eye contact
    City | Poetry | Relationships

    A Game of Eye Contact

    March 29, 2019September 17, 2023
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    Eye contact. All the things it holds.

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  • L'Heure du silence (1897) by Henri
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism

    Things You Hear In Silence

    March 28, 2019February 25, 2025
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    ‘A minute of silence’ by Marina Abramovic moved me to tears. I knew it had lessons for me that I wasn’t yet ready for.

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  • Ramya in yellow jacket, smiling
    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism

    The Politics Of Smile

    March 27, 2019November 26, 2023
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    You should smile more, women are told, it makes you look good. This is said as a compliment but is erasure.

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  • Ramya on a red exercise ball with the words 'Millennial dreams look like this'
    Digital World | Map Of Emotion | WorkSpace

    Millennial Dreams Looked Like This

    March 26, 2019February 25, 2025
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    What did millennials dream of?

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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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