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  IFocal: Black and White Stories
    City | Roving I

    IFocal: Black and White Stories

    October 8, 2013March 29, 2025
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    Everyone’s just another pixel in the collage till you boil them down to their #BlackandWhite stories. I’ve heard people say that Black-and-white is the better form of photography. As a colour lover, I resisted this for a long time. I still enjoy vibrancy but I’m beginning to see how colour…

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  Ideart: Bottled Starry Night
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    Ideart: Bottled Starry Night

    October 4, 2013March 27, 2023
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    A Van Gogh on a bottle

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    Saadgi: The Indian Plain Jane ideal

    October 1, 2013March 26, 2023
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    Western feminism talks about the infantalisation of women. Childish behaviour is rewarded, glorified and in some cases, forcibly attributed too. I think the Indian counterpart is a bit different – but there is an Indian counterpart. The Indian culture, across states idolizes the Plain Jane. In general conversations among my…

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    IFocal: Train Journey

    October 1, 2013March 29, 2025
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    *If you like this photograph, you might want to check out my Instagram stream.

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  Ideart: Night Sky In A Bottle
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    Ideart: Night Sky In A Bottle

    September 28, 2013September 16, 2023
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    This time I tried a shaded effect (which is a lot harder on a curved glass surface than on a flat fabric or paper one!). The design didn’t lend itself to black borders, which I realised later is a major factor in making bottle art stand out. Lesson learnt. Still,…

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    Lying Awake Feels Like This

    September 27, 2013March 26, 2023
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    The middle of the night feels slightly hysteric. Since late night TV and corporate lifestyles, midnight is what 8:30 p.m. probably was to the generations before. ‘Twilight’ has been co-opted by a low-grade teen horror tale. You’re lying awake at 4:12 in the morning. You dreamt of a guy you…

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    Horrendo’s Curse #1 – Anna Fienberg: Pirates & Good Hearts

    September 24, 2013March 26, 2023
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    A book about pirates and kids.

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    The Quality of Empathy

    September 23, 2013April 14, 2024
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    Conversations are full of many things – agenda, anxiety, entertainment, learning. But the quality of empathy elevates it.

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  Sept Shorts07: Game Changer
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    Sept Shorts07: Game Changer

    September 21, 2013March 26, 2023
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    A game changer is a person or idea that transforms the accepted rules, processes, strategies and management of business functions.

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    100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People – Susan M. Weinschenk: On How People See & Think

    September 21, 2013March 26, 2023
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    This isn’t a design book. It’s a book about how people process information.

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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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