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  I Style!: Retro Style for Gadgets
    Digital World | Pop Culture

    I Style!: Retro Style for Gadgets

    August 12, 2013August 25, 2023
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    If this mobile phone were a woman, she’d be rocking the retro look. I spotted this cassette-style mobile phone cover on someone’s table at my last office. Gadgetry has become a vital part of our style quotient as well so for the first time, here’s featuring a gizmo on I…

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  Ideart: Music Is The Colour Of Mirth
    Pop Culture

    Ideart: Music Is The Colour Of Mirth

    August 10, 2013March 26, 2023
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    So I created this, from an old pickle jar, for a friend who wanted a picture of mirth (yellow and orange are those, aren’t they?). The sheet music and the rest of the symbols have special significance for him. Note – This is only one bottle. Each image is a…

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    Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    The Other Woman (The Real Other One In Every Relationship)

    August 9, 2013April 14, 2024
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    For the Indian man, there’s only one real woman in every relationship. It always goes back to her.

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  I Style!: No Excess Baggage
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    I Style!: No Excess Baggage

    August 6, 2013March 26, 2023
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    I haven’t been a big fan of Fastrack ever since the ‘cheating is cool’ subtext in their ad campaign. But this duffel bag from their collection caught my eye, especially for its label. It reminded me of the Tantra tee-shirts form of humour. So, after a long hiatus, an I…

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  Ideart: Old Mattress on a Bottle
    Fiction | Pop Culture

    Ideart: Old Mattress on a Bottle

    August 2, 2013March 28, 2023
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    I took an old #ideastory and merged it into another artistic endeavor I’ve recently been experimenting with – bottle painting. One side of the bottle shows a stack of mattresses and bed linen. The other side has the story painted on in silver. Tell me what you think. The story,…

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    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism

    The Taste Of Success

    July 23, 2013September 23, 2023
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    When will being me feel like a success?

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  • Body & Sex | Poetry

    Mark Me

    July 15, 2013September 17, 2023
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    Tattoo your inner demonsall over my bodyLay your glance next to my heartTouch my soul *Read my other Love Poetry. Or listen to it.

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    A Comfortable Close

    July 11, 2013September 10, 2023
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    “I like this”, she says, “I like us.”“We are a comfortable close.” And she smiles at the picture on her screen one last time before switching it off.

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    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Masochist

    July 9, 2013September 17, 2023
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    Listen to me put you down.Beg me to make you beg for more.Then call me a bitch for stomping all over your heart. You always get your way.

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  The Grey of Thirty-Four
    Map Of Emotion

    The Grey of Thirty-Four

    July 8, 2013March 2, 2024
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    I’m hitting the unremarkable age of thirty-four. Unremarkable, not unimportant.

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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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