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    A Story That Wrote Me

    August 9, 2017April 2, 2023
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    This has been a year of such drastic changes and shifts that my whole outlook has been the here and now – surviving these. But I am a creature of nostalgia and the past doesn’t impede me. It teaches me, it nurtures me and it gives me fodder for the…

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    Poetry

    LEAK

    August 5, 2017September 17, 2023
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    In between your precise words
    and your regimented actions
    you spilt me one look
    that drowned it all.

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  • Gears and cogs machinery
    Digital World | WorkSpace

    Why Marketers Need To Consider Marketing Automation

    August 4, 2017December 24, 2025
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    Marketing Automation might conjure up an image of a gigantic machine that addresses all pressing marketing issues. It’s not.

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  • A knotted rope
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Knotted

    August 3, 2017September 17, 2023
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    A poem about being knotted in love –

    “You had me tied up in knots
    turning over your every word
    twisting each smile,
    into shapes of affection”

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  • river on rocks and mountain forest
    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    The Nature Of The Current

    August 2, 2017April 2, 2023
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    The nicest thing to happen was that I felt like myself in my own skin. The nature of the current is home.

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  • Poetry

    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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  • Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism

    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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  • Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    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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  • Poetry | Pop Culture | WorkSpace

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

    June 27, 2017May 2, 2026
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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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  • 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…”
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