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    Cycle Ride

    August 1, 2017September 17, 2023
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    Let us cycle away, to a placebeyond words and dates and labelsLet us cycle off on a path of stolen glances that connect. Let us cycle back to a place we did that,a time when it was possiblea you before I knew your real faceand you knew my name. *Read…

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  • Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Lipstick Under My Burkha: Not Feminism But A Revenge Saga Against Men

    July 31, 2017April 1, 2023
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    Lipstick Under My Burkha is not feminism; it’s a revenge saga against men writ large on the silver screen.

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    The Ugly Male Face Of ‘Cannot Cope’

    July 6, 2017April 1, 2023
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    I always thought India hates its daughters. But now I believe it hates its sons even more. One of the biggest advantages that I have is that I was given a realistic view of the world’s indifference and even hostility to my existence. Yes, this is an advantage because growing…

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    Okay 2017, I Concede. Let’s Wait It Out.

    July 4, 2017April 14, 2024
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    I want to write something simply because the topmost post on this blog for too long now, has been a painful memory that victimised me. I am not actually dwelling in the past. The present has had me too caught up to even think about the future, let alone the…

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    Quoted in Mid-Day: Health – Speak Up Against Substance Abuse

    June 27, 2017October 9, 2023
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    I’m writing this post a little late since last week was such a flurry of activity. I performed at the Unerase Poetry against Drug Abuse event. And in the week leading up to it, I also got quoted in a Mid-Day story about using poetry to bring awareness to this…

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    An Unequal Music

    June 12, 2017April 1, 2023
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    I read ‘When I Hit You’ by Meena Kandasamy and it brought me back to an episode in my relationship with music.

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    BOOK REVIEW: Harriet The Spy-Louise Fitzhugh: Flinch, Harriet

    June 11, 2017December 17, 2023
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    ‘Harriet the Spy’ is about a 11 year old girl who is gagged by family & system and forced into therapy. Reading helped me crystallise my own identity crisis.

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    Poets Talk — Quoted In The Afternoon Despath & Courier ‘More Power To Poetry’

    May 18, 2017April 11, 2025
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    I was quoted alongside other poets in a media story about powerful poetry.

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  What’s Your Poison? – Addictions You May Not Know You Have
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    What’s Your Poison? – Addictions You May Not Know You Have

    May 8, 2017April 14, 2024
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    We all face situations that are alarming & scary. We seek escape. This must mean we are all creating potential addictions for ourselves, every day.

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    The April Of My (Re)Alignment

    May 6, 2017April 1, 2023
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    April has been a lonely month. Housekeeping always is.

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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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