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  Pop A Pill, Define A Generation
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    Pop A Pill, Define A Generation

    September 6, 2016October 30, 2023
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    I was diagnosed with a thyroid deficiency and prescribed a pill I’ll need to take every day for the rest of my life.

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    I Wear: Orange Is The New Everything

    September 3, 2016February 25, 2025
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    Sundays are Alphabet Sambar days and this Sunday brought the kind of sunny weather that I’ve been craving for weeks. I also recovered from a bad acidity/migraine attack the previous day and was feeling positively buoyant. So I took the sunniest colour I could find – orange – and painted…

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  Why Are So Many Mumbaikers Desperate To Kill Time?
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    Why Are So Many Mumbaikers Desperate To Kill Time?

    August 28, 2016September 18, 2023
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    There is always a sizeable number of people who have no interest in what’s going on. Are they really so many people who don’t know what to do with their time?

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    I Wear: The Pink Killer

    August 26, 2016February 25, 2025
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    My weekend began with a new poetry event. And it was a rainy day but I wanted to dress for a Friday night. This was shot on 29 July 2016. I Wear: * This video was shot by Gautam Makhija.If you enjoyed this style post in video, check out the other…

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  Reluctant Learner: The Adulthood Of Enduring Younger People
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    Reluctant Learner: The Adulthood Of Enduring Younger People

    August 25, 2016September 18, 2023
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    Is it a function of our flawed social systems that older generations never allow the younger ones to grow up? Age is full of lessons. But maybe I’m a reluctant student.

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  Happy Bhaag Jayegi Makes A Surprising Escape From Patriarchy
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    Happy Bhaag Jayegi Makes A Surprising Escape From Patriarchy

    August 25, 2016February 25, 2025
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    I didn’t expect to find feminist ideas in a mainstream Bollywood film called ‘Happy Bhaag Jayegi’

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  I Wear: Feminist Fashion
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    I Wear: Feminist Fashion

    August 24, 2016March 31, 2023
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    Feminist fashion & how to do it. (Includes a video)

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  • Ramya in a tiger-print top with a pink bag, Shaunak in the background looking at his phone
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    Thinking Pink: Fashion As A Feminist Statement

    August 23, 2016February 25, 2025
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    What does feminist fashion mean and where does the colour pink fall in it?

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    I Wear: Family Weekends

    August 22, 2016April 14, 2024
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    I like to keep my Saturdays as quiet as possible. For one, I do live a rather crowded, loquacious life. And in addition, weekends witness horribly obnoxious behaviour by people in malls, multiplexes and on roads (and where else is there to go on a weekend, after all?). I usually…

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    I Wear: Peacock Power

    August 19, 2016March 31, 2023
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    Unisex power, peacock blue power, khadi power, I own it all!

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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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