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    Hello, AI World: Jetpack AI, ChatGPT For A Blogger

    April 21, 2024July 15, 2025
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    Is Artificial Intelligence really going to replace me? A blogger explores ChatGPT, Jetpack AI and a few other AI content tools.

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    Mad Men: THE JET SET Was About Unwanted Children

    February 19, 2024July 15, 2025
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    Mad Men S2E11 episode THE JET SET offers a deeper look into the show’s underlying theme by exploring the choice between hedonism and domesticity.

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    City | Poetry | Politics & Feminism

    Thank God: Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid & Bombay Riots

    January 18, 2024April 21, 2024
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    Religion met politics in a thunderclap of violence & my city burnt. It was never the same again. I was never the same again. Thank God.

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    ANNAPOORANI: What The Film & Right-Wing Got Wrong On Caste

    January 13, 2024July 15, 2025
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    ANNAPOORANI promised a caste discourse but served up a Brahimin fantasy. Right-wing backlash to the film only furthers saffron politics via Brahmin propaganda.

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    Mad Men: THE SUITCASE Is Full Of Peggy’s Baggage

    January 8, 2024July 15, 2025
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    Peggy Olsen contends with her choices of relationships, desire & work in the fan favorite MAD MEN episode ‘The Suitcase’ through three men Mark, Duck & Don.

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    Books | City | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism

    Christmas In My 40s: Navigating Yuletide In A Desi Identity

    December 25, 2023February 27, 2025
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    Christmas is complex for me. It’s a journey through painful nostalgia, colonised history, the morality of forgivness & questioning where I really belong.

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    BOOK REVIEW: Daughters Of Sparta, The Penelopiad, Circe

    December 18, 2023December 18, 2023
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    Feminist retellings of Greek mythos offers a different view of heroism. The Sparta-Troy war is rich with women navigating complex stories of their own.

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    Beyond the Drill: Dental Health & Mental Resilience

    November 26, 2023December 31, 2024
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    From childhood challenges to dental health, lessons in trusting my body’s signals came from tattoo artists, doctors & life coaches.

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    Dissociation On A Train To Dadar

    November 17, 2023December 18, 2023
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    I took a train journey after over 5 years. It simultaneously felt like a new experience & an old pleasant ache that showed up. Is this what dissociation is?

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    Consumer Activism In A Capitalist World

    November 12, 2023April 21, 2024
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    What does ethically conscious consumption really mean in a capitalist world? I ponder a few things before jumping onto the consumer activism bandwagon.

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  • IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “@Harshaman: What a delightful set of throwbacks it was to receive this comment! First, to the days when one would…”
  • Harshaman on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “Which for me means, looking back at the past with a discerning and curatorial eye I had been thinking about…”
  • Neha Kapoor on Unlikeable Women: It’s Okay To Dislike Her, But Respect Her: “You always have such good book recommendations!”
  • 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…”

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