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    Body & Sex | Books | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Do You Have A BiFF?

    February 23, 2016April 14, 2024
    15 Comments

    A BiFF is like one of the X-Men. A good BiFF is all good things rolled into one, like Human Being Plus. Wait, what’s a BiFF?

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    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    The Broken Glass Inside My Head

    February 23, 2016July 15, 2025
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    It’s a post-apocalyptic world inside my head. Watching ‘Deadpool’ was a nasty reminder. But so was sympathy from a stranger.

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  Celibacy, Sluttiness and Everything Sex In Between
    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism

    Celibacy, Sluttiness and Everything Sex In Between

    February 18, 2016September 23, 2023
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    Now that we’re all adult and modern and can talk about sex openly, let’s. Only let’s not do that dialogue about repressed sexuality and all the cliches.

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  Unimpressed
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    Unimpressed

    February 18, 2016September 4, 2023
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    Everything fights to make an impression. You’ve been a tap-tap-tapping rhythm from one snooze button to the next. Yet, you remain unimpressed.

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  Girls Who May One Day Be Gone
    Books | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Girls Who May One Day Be Gone

    February 9, 2016April 14, 2024
    6 Comments

    Gone Girl – I saw the movie, I read the book. This is not a review but a prediction of doom.

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  Love As A Matter of Habit
    Map Of Emotion

    Love As A Matter of Habit

    January 18, 2016March 29, 2023
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    A friend defined love as ‘a form of OCD’. I pondered the idea and it gave me a way out of an end-of-love situation.

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  Canvas Kavita: A Collaboration Of Spoken Word, Poetry & Music
    Poetry | Pop Culture

    Canvas Kavita: A Collaboration Of Spoken Word, Poetry & Music

    January 11, 2016September 18, 2023
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    I collaborated with musician Karthik Rao to interpret Soghra Khursani’s painting exhibit in words & music. Art, words & music – this is a collaboration I’ll always be proud to have been in.

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  Men’s Messages On A Dating Site And What They Actually Mean
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    Men’s Messages On A Dating Site And What They Actually Mean

    January 6, 2016March 30, 2025
    4 Comments

    What do men’s messages on dating sites really mean? Let me decipher this species.

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    City | Poetry

    Hyderabad Girls

    January 3, 2016September 17, 2023
    2 Comments

    A poem to a late night Twitter prompt – for a friend from the city of nawabs and biryani, Hyderabad.

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    Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Relationships

    Escape

    January 2, 2016September 17, 2023
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    In narrow escape routesInside games of shameYou hidBreathing unabashedAnd that’s where I found youDefiant refugees together,We loved. *Read my other Love Poetry. Or listen to it.

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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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