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    Tired Is Good

    December 30, 2016March 31, 2023
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    The last few years have been better after a living nightmare. But I’m tired.

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  Relationship Status: Between Swipe Right & Made In Heaven
    Digital World | Relationships

    Relationship Status: Between Swipe Right & Made In Heaven

    December 14, 2016July 25, 2023
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    Millennial Dating has changed how we think of the Relationship.

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  • Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Pop Culture

    On Losing A Voice And Remembering How To Speak Again

    November 24, 2016February 25, 2025
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    Men will never stop attacking my right to speak. My voice is my only weapon and my sole identity.

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  Nine Ways To Survive The Rs.500/1000 Demonitisation
    Politics & Feminism

    Nine Ways To Survive The Rs.500/1000 Demonitisation

    November 14, 2016July 23, 2024
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    India announced demonitisation – that Rs.500 and Rs.1000 notes would no longer be valid currency. How do we survive this?

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    Digital World | Map Of Emotion

    Welcome To Friendship Dial-In Services…

    November 7, 2016July 25, 2023
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    A phone crash made me realise just how much friendship has become equated to customer services.

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  • City | Pop Culture

    I Wear: Bohemian Rockstar

    November 6, 2016July 16, 2023
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    I was featured in an event themed ‘Women Empowerment’. And my look was a fashion-forward, sex-positive rockstar.

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  • Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    A Stranger’s Houseparty

    November 3, 2016March 31, 2023
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    I haven’t written anything new through October. It wasn’t a bad month though. Far from it. The rains petered out and I think I dealt with my least favorite season a lot more gracefully than I usually do. I know it often seems like I’m endlessly complaining. But only I…

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  There’s No Sane Way To Grieve
    Body & Sex | Books | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture | Relationships

    There’s No Sane Way To Grieve

    October 26, 2016February 25, 2025
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    Breakups need to be grieved. Grieving is messy and the path to healing isn’t straight. But if you have the space & support, it happens.

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    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism

    Shame In My Belly: Body Image & The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

    October 21, 2016February 25, 2025
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    Of the many wars a woman fights, body image issues are some of the hardest to tackle. Because they’re always fought by an army of one against the whole world inside the dark battlefield of one’s mind. Shame is a powerful adversary.

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    I Wear: Ranger Ramya Goes Adventuring With Stories

    October 17, 2016February 25, 2025
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    Alphabet Sambar meets are always a pleasure. But getting up on a Sunday morning when the weather is so meh (rainy! cloudy!) needs all the willpower I can muster. So on this grey morning, I decided to ask colour to play sunshine to my mood. And I went ranger. Here’s…

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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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