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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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  • ramya on back of bike in goa
    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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  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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  • 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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