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    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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    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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    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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    Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    How Female Erasure (Mis)Shapes Our History

    November 2, 2024January 1, 2025
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    Female erasure in history means women like my aunt —and maybe me — are left unrecorded, our stories quietly slipping out of memory. Includes audio.

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    Body & Sex | Home & Identity

    Don’t Tell Me I’m Hot

    October 31, 2024March 23, 2026
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    This journey isn’t about being hot; it’s about finding true comfort in my skin, rejecting the myth of pretty privilege, and feeling at home again.

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    Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Finding My Khandaan: My Life Through the Bollywood Khans

    October 27, 2024July 10, 2025
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    The Khandaan podcast inspires a journey through my Bollywood memories, uncovering how they shaped our cultural identities and gender politics in relationships.

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    When You Have A Choice In Your Story: Choices ‘Slow Burn’

    October 25, 2024March 23, 2026
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    Slow Burn on the Choices app highlights the importance of sensitive representation in interactive stories, showing how diversity shapes narrative choice.

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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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