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  One Day Past Thirty-Five
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    One Day Past Thirty-Five

    July 15, 2014February 25, 2025
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    Celebrations. I’ve decided I’m going to have them as often and as self indulgently as I can. I’m thirty-five, not dead!

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  Why Digital Dating Means Nothing New For Indian Women
    Body & Sex | Digital World | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Why Digital Dating Means Nothing New For Indian Women

    July 10, 2014April 14, 2024
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    India is on the digital map and we of the brown-skinned, spicy-food-eating ilk are exploring digital dating too.

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    Raw

    July 8, 2014March 28, 2023
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    I don’t feel so raw anymore.I don’t feel so raw.I don’t feel so.I don’t feel.I don’t.I..

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    When Did ‘I’m Married’ Become A Pick-Up Line?

    July 7, 2014March 28, 2023
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    Why are married men openly partaking of mating rituals? And why are women falling for them?

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    Cruise Control And The New ‘Joy’stick

    July 7, 2014March 28, 2023
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    I live a charmed life. I stumbled onto something I loved doing and that, coincidentally I was also good at. It happened late enough that I had had enough time to pick up an education and a world view so I wouldn’t grow up into a unidimensional adult. And it…

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  Crown Of Thorns
    Body & Sex | City | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Crown Of Thorns

    June 30, 2014November 29, 2023
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    A hair accessory incited so much harassment from strangers and friends alike, it unwittingly became my crown of thorns.

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  You Secret.ly Hate Women
    Digital World | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    You Secret.ly Hate Women

    June 28, 2014April 14, 2024
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    The Secret app has brought out an ugly side to people I know.

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  The Anti-Love Fundamentalists
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    The Anti-Love Fundamentalists

    June 28, 2014September 20, 2023
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    The people who espouse hookups are just as fundamentalist in their beliefs as the people they scoff at. There is no room for love in this war.

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  I Wear: Indian Wedding
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    I Wear: Indian Wedding

    June 25, 2014March 28, 2023
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    *This is a sponsored post. The pictures are from a wedding I attended. Two of my friends got married this week. I attended a ceremony that lasted over 6 hours, included a pheras-around-fire ritual, several small in-family practices, a wedding dinner and reception. And this was actually an Indian Wedding…

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  Movie Review: Chef – Digitalia, Loss, Life And Some Food
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    Movie Review: Chef – Digitalia, Loss, Life And Some Food

    June 21, 2014February 25, 2025
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    I was invited to a preview screening of the film ‘Chef’.

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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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