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  V is for Victoria Terminus
    City | Fiction | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    V is for Victoria Terminus

    April 25, 2014March 28, 2023
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    On 26 Nov’08, a young man walked into a train station and changed the lives of millions of people forever. I am one of those people, because I am a Mumbaiker.

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  U is for Underwater
    Fiction | Map Of Emotion

    U is for Underwater

    April 24, 2014June 17, 2024
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    After 20 years of swimming, I conquered the most fundamental of human-water relationships: getting in. Underwater is where it is at.

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  T is for Truth or Dare
    Fiction | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    T is for Truth or Dare

    April 23, 2014March 28, 2023
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    This is a story of one of my favorite games.

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  R is for Red Shoes
    Fiction | Relationships

    R is for Red Shoes

    April 21, 2014March 30, 2025
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    I wrote this in February when red, dancing and unexpected affections seemed all around.

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  P is for Printer
    Fiction | WorkSpace

    P is for Printer

    April 18, 2014March 30, 2025
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    Now here’s a story based on a little something that happened in real life. I once worked at an office where the printer was named for the employee who was seated closest to it. It created some mirthful situations. This however, is fiction. For today’s A to Z Challenge, I…

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  N is for A Nice Guy
    Body & Sex | Fiction

    N is for A Nice Guy

    April 16, 2014March 28, 2023
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    N is for noir fiction (my first attempt). And N is also for a Nice Guy.

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  L is for Letters I’ll Never Send
    Fiction | Relationships

    L is for Letters I’ll Never Send

    April 15, 2014March 28, 2023
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    I’m falling utterly behind. So I decided to post this already written story and catch up on the missing three later. Here’s another attempt at epistolary, this time in a more traditional, simple manner. Two letters I give you for today’s A to Z Challenge in the form of L…

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  A Professional Woman
    Politics & Feminism

    A Professional Woman

    April 15, 2014March 28, 2023
    2 Comments

    A fortnight ago, a friend and I parted ways. He came to me, looking for comforting, for sympathy. I gave him instead, honesty. Words were exchanged and the friendship is now a thing of the past. The thing is, I never offered comfort or sympathy, only outright, unvarnished honesty. We’ve…

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  K is for Kitne Aadmi The?
    Fiction | Pop Culture

    K is for Kitne Aadmi The?

    April 12, 2014March 30, 2025
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    A Tall Tales take on one of the most popular Bollywood stories ever. You only need to know, Kitne Aadmi The?

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  When Douchey Men Have Daughters
    Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    When Douchey Men Have Daughters

    April 9, 2014March 28, 2023
    4 Comments

    All that noise and gunfire and the sound of grown men weeping? That’s just the sound of someone getting his just desserts.

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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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