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  Healing Into Thirty-Seven
    City | Map Of Emotion

    Healing Into Thirty-Seven

    August 17, 2016September 16, 2023
    3 Comments

    This is sort of a birthday taking stock that’s late. But it has been the kind of year that merits that.

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  • Poetry | Pop Culture

    Shaping Spaces & Relationships: The Poetry Club @ Theosophy Hall

    August 16, 2016September 17, 2023
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    The Poetry Club tied up with the French Consulate to host a poetry workshop and Open Mic at the Theosophy Hall. They also did this last year after the COP21 conference where they asked attendant poets to write about environmental change. The piece that I wrote for that event was…

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  • Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    I Wear: A Star Is Always On Stage

    August 15, 2016February 25, 2025
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    I started the week after my birthday by going back to Tuning Fork for their Monday Open Mic and I’m so glad I did! It was a fabulous evening of unexpected, varied performances ranging from music, comedy to the kind of poetry that makes one remember what art truly is. I…

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    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion

    ‘Fitness Fanatics’, Kindly Get Lost

    August 12, 2016September 18, 2023
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    If health was a linear equation, our demigods wouldn’t be doctors prescribing but engineers computating. Fitness freaks need a reality check.

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  • Pop Culture

    I Wear: Citrus Sunday

    August 11, 2016February 25, 2025
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    Alphabet Sambar Sunday is a chance to bring out the citrus.

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  Friends, And That’s All The Benefits We Need
    Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Friends, And That’s All The Benefits We Need

    August 10, 2016August 28, 2023
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    “You guys seem so close! Are you really just friends?”

    Just friends. What does that even mean?

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    Pop Culture

    The Moody Artist Cliche

    August 8, 2016March 29, 2023
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    This great myth of the tortured artist, the starving writer, the moody creator needs to be debunked once and for all.

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  • City | Pop Culture

    I Wear: Hipster Worker

    August 8, 2016September 18, 2023
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    Includes a video

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  • Pop Culture

    I Wear: Ampersands On The Go

    August 4, 2016February 25, 2025
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    What I look like when I’m chilling

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  • Home & Identity | Pop Culture

    New Spaces But The Stage is Always Home

    July 27, 2016September 4, 2023
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    I’m always looking for new spaces to perform in. New venues, new people, new poetry. I brought my story of Mumbai’s textile mills to Ghatkopar station.

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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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