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  • Measuring the world
    Books | Relationships

    The One Who Was Lost In Translation

    May 18, 2023May 18, 2023
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    I read a gifted book after the one who gifted it left my life. It helped me understand what went wrong. We were lost in translation.

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  • What is your poison?
    Body & Sex | Digital World | Poetry | Pop Culture

    What’s Your Poison, Eena, Meena, Deeka?

    May 8, 2023July 24, 2023
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    I created this piece for an UnErase Against Drugs event. I wanted to go beyond the PSA-style message and tell a story. What’s your poison?

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  • Sindhu Bhairavi
    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Feminist Review: Sindhu Bhairavi’s Male Gaze & Strong Woman Tropes

    May 1, 2023December 29, 2023
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    The 1985 Tamil film ‘Sindhu-Bhairavi’ under a feminist lens shows a nuanced male storyteller gaze and some strong woman tropes. Does that make it feminist?

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  • A Mumbai kind of welcome - Vileparle Variety
    City | Home & Identity | Poetry

    A Mumbai Kind Of Welcome: Vileparle Variety

    April 28, 2023February 27, 2025
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    Mumbai says welcome in many languages. There’s one place where you can taste them all. Vileparle says welcome home.

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  • Musical journey - Ramya at mic at The Hive outdoors
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Pop Culture

    Musical But Not By Identity

    April 25, 2023February 27, 2025
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    I come from musical history. I trained in vocals & an instrument. I’ve won prizes, performed concerts. But music is not my identity.

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  • death decay car
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    The Deaths That We Deserve

    April 24, 2023April 23, 2023
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    How I learnt to value deaths as I learnt to value life. What lies next to the pain of loss & fear of the unknown when it comes to death?

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  • Custody Battle
    Poetry | Pop Culture | Relationships

    CUSTODY – A Spoken Word Piece

    April 20, 2023September 17, 2023
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    Each time I perform this, men tell me, “You really understand how a guy feels.” I still feel wrecked by my custody battle.

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    Books | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    BOOK REVIEW: Sugarbread-Balli Kaur Jaswal: Like Eating A Green Chilli

    April 17, 2023December 16, 2023
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    Reading SUGARBREAD was like eating a whole green chilli. It made me feel like I’d been punched in the gut. Satisfaction came after tears.

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  • Ramya at a big city junction, highrises and whizzing traffic visible in the background.
    City | Home & Identity | Poetry

    Big City Girl: Marol Memoirs

    April 14, 2023April 14, 2024
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    The joke goes that people from anywhere else in the city need a visa to enter Andheri. The Marol of my past was another world.

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  • feminist
    Politics & Feminism

    Male Feminist – Do I Still Think That’s A Thing?

    April 12, 2023December 29, 2023
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    A decade I ago I pondered the question, “Can a man be a feminist?”. Has my answer changed since then?

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Comments

  • 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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