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    Who You Are By Where You Are: Mumbai’s Location Politics

    February 4, 2025February 4, 2025
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    Read the post ‘Who You Are By Where You Are: Mumbai’s Location Politics’ here.

  • Boundaries | Death | Goodbye | Grief | Regret

    The Gentle Goodbye: Embracing Clean Endings In Life

    January 3, 2025January 3, 2025
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    Read the blogpost version of the episode ‘The Gentle Goodbye: Embracing Clean Endings In Life’ here.

  • Feminism | Womanhood

    How Female Erasure (Mis)Shapes Our History

    January 1, 2025January 1, 2025
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    Female erasure in history means women like my aunt, my great-grandmother—and maybe me—are left unrecorded, our stories quietly slipping out of memory. Read the transcript of ‘How Female Erasure (Mis)Shapes Our History’ here.

  • Bullying | Mental health | Pop culture

    Bullying Insights In Pop Culture: Harry Potter To Mean Girls

    October 28, 2024January 1, 2025
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    Pop culture helps me frame how people behave and who I become. I found some notable insights on bullying in Harry Potter & Mean Girls. Read the transcript of the episode ‘Bullying Insights In Pop Culture: Harry Potter To Mean Girls’ here.

  • Mumbai | Public transport

    Mining Joy On A Joyride: Mumbai Metro Aqua Line 3

    October 21, 2024October 28, 2024
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  • Mumbai | Politics | Religion

    Thank God 🛕🕌 – 1993 Bombay Riots

    January 18, 2024October 28, 2024
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    Over three decades ago, an agnostic city called BOMBAY experienced the might of GOD. I was a child when religion met politics in a thunderclap of violence.

    Read the story ‘Thank God‘ here.

  • Mental health | Sleep | Work-life

    Lullaby 🛌

    July 24, 2023July 24, 2023
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    A lullaby is sung to us as children. But well into adulthood, sleep remains elusive. This is my loving goodbye to the cares of the day. Read the poem ‘Lullaby‘ here.

  • Mumbai

    Not An Easy City To Love ⛈️

    July 7, 2023October 28, 2024
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    On 26 Jul’05, Mumbai experienced unprecedented rain – the heaviest in 100 years. This is my story of survival. It is also a love story. Read the post ‘Not An Easy City To Love‘ here.

  • Economics | Politics

    Mental Health In A Capitalist World

    June 1, 2023January 7, 2024
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  • Addiction | Politics

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

    May 8, 2023May 8, 2023
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    Read ‘What’s Your Poison, Eena, Meena, Deeka‘ here. This piece was created for an event themed to International Day Against Drugs.

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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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