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  The Doomed Relationships of India
    Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    The Doomed Relationships of India

    February 1, 2017March 31, 2023
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    It ended because he assumed it was what he thought and what he had to say. It didn’t even occur to him to think of what I was thinking.

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  • Vande Hei exercises on COLBERT T2 Treadmill
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    The Lone Runner On The Treadmill

    January 25, 2017March 31, 2023
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    Everyone I know is on a treadmill. I wish I knew more people like me. The ones that tried getting off it.

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  • Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    The Showwoman Under The Paper Plane

    January 23, 2017March 30, 2025
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    Paper Plane & coffee

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    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Scarlet Woman

    January 18, 2017September 18, 2023
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    I’m in heartbreak. I’m Scarlett O’Hara pining for the virtues of Melanie Wilkes. I’m some other kind of woman.

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    Poem For An Ex I May Have Told You About

    January 12, 2017September 17, 2023
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    I had a chance to get this off my chest last year. I’m so grateful for the stage giving me a chance to voice things that had been eating away my insides for too long. I’ve been silenced by well-meaning friends and others who are just inconvenienced by anything other…

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    And Then There Was Music

    January 10, 2017September 17, 2023
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    I sang. There was music.

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  The Grand Villain And A Concrete Wall
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    The Grand Villain And A Concrete Wall

    January 3, 2017April 14, 2024
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    Heartbreak. It’s hard work getting past it but hard work never scared me. It’s lack of hope that terrifies me. Yet, my automatic reaction has been to freeze up into a wall of silence, stoicism, concrete hardness. There is no hope beyond a wall of that nature. I decided to…

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  The Trials Of The Girl Who Reads
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    The Trials Of The Girl Who Reads

    January 2, 2017March 30, 2025
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    The Crush has given me a book. The question is to read or not to read?

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  I’m Looking For Love But Not Really
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    I’m Looking For Love But Not Really

    January 1, 2017March 31, 2023
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    I haven’t been my prolific self of the past decade, in 2016 and I intend to change that. It’s not that I haven’t been sharing. I’m realising that I am the kind of being that needs to share. It feels good to let it out, to bleed in the open air….

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    1AM on 1-1

    January 1, 2017April 14, 2024
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    1AM on 1-1.
    Welcome.

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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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