The Blue Moon By Lavanya Srinivasan
28 Jan 2018
Lavanya lets her imagination run wild and explores the fantastic worlds it takes her to. Read on to enjoy the the world she built when she thought about the upcoming super blue blood moon.
Posts tagged with “social”
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Coffee Shop Moments
26 Jan 2018
Sometimes the best way to resolve a long standing issue, is to talk about it, and what better place than a coffee shop. As they say, a lot can happen over coffee.
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Are Bloggers Being Exploited?
18 Dec 2017
Parenting blogs are a great source of comfort to new parents. Advertising is one way to monetize blogs. But are all forms of advertising the same? Are there ethical issues involved? Are bloggers being compensated adequately for sponsored posts? These are a few things I have been thinking about.
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Smoldering Fires
10 Dec 2017
The woman is painted in to a corner and idolized for serving society, but what about a woman's own needs and desires?
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Torches of Freedom
17 Nov 2017
Sometimes we unwittingly exchange one devil for another. A flash fiction piece inspired by a photo prompt.
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The Evolutionary Twist
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Where There’s A Will ...
24 Oct 2017
Shweta has been running a small dance business for a while. She conducts dance workshops and classes at various schools and posh housing societies all over Mumbai. Over the years, she has interacted with various administrators. But Mr. Mehta is unusually dreary and expressionless, even for one of his kind. Could there be a reason for it? Read on to find out how Mr. Mehta surprises Shweta.
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Two Can Keep A Secret, If ...
21 Oct 2017
The mango empire is a dirty, dirty business. And the genius behind the operation has a deep, guarded, secret. What is his secret, and what will he do, if it is ever discovered? Read on to find out.
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Winning V/S Defeating
02 Oct 2017
Sometimes winning may look like losing, but it takes strength to walk away, instead of impulsively striking back, to your own long-term detriment. Winning is not necessarily about defeating someone else.
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When Ivory Turned To Dust
15 Sep 2017
Sexism still lurks in the most unexpected places in subtle ways. Are people still skeptical, when a woman claims an interesting idea to be her own? And what happens, when a man disputes the claim? Read on to see what Sarah finds out.
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Finally, She Slept
13 Sep 2017
Sangeeta is frustrated. She is facing the trials every new mother does. But is that all there is to it, or is there something more serious going on? Read on to find out.
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A Book Of My Short Stories
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Privacy In The Electronic Age
26 Aug 2017
Recently our Supreme Court, upheld the right to privacy as a fundamental right of every citizen. Why is this so important today? Here is my take.
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Eclipsed
24 Aug 2017
Away from home, family, and a job she loves, Richa is lonely. Her husband needs to work long hours and she feels lost. Will Richa be able to take charge of her life again? Read on to find out.
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Censorship Is A Double-Edged Sword
06 Aug 2017
Recently, social media has been flooded with angry posts about some TV show called Pehredaar Piya Ki. Seeing so many people agitated about it, piqued my curiosity, and I read a little about it. To me, it seems somewhat silly, but again, I have not actually watched it, so I am going to refrain from judging it any further.
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When The Building Opened Its Doors
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The Stalker
28 Jun 2017
Radhika was nervous. She never should have demanded that the driver take her through the small alley ways so late at night.
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Taking The First Step
15 Jun 2017
A letter to a friend who is a victim of abuse. Her situation is made worse by the fact that she is on a dependent H4 visa in the USA.
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Is the Internet Isolating Us?
09 May 2017
A decade ago, I lived in a foreign country. That was when I started using social media. For a few years, it was about catching up with old friends, sharing pictures and gossiping about what had changed. It seemed like our forgotten friendships could be revived through the magic of the internet. If anyone had then told me, that the internet would eventually be isolating people, I would have called them raving loons.
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Are You Being Served?
23 Apr 2017
Vaishali was getting impatient. They had been stuck in a traffic jam for 20 minutes, on a Sunday afternoon. Insane! What could be the problem?
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Just A Spoon Full Of Sugar ...
09 Apr 2017
When we were kids, we were badgered by grown ups to read the news or watch the news in order to educate our selves and shed our ignorance of the world we lived in. In our times, news was quite boring and I wonder how many parents succeeded in getting their kids to actually read or listen to the news.
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Haunted By Our Colonial Past
28 Mar 2017
A blogger friend of mine has blogged several times, about a couple of issues that bother her. One is, the strange emotionally charged attitude we have to the English language and the other is the discrimination, dark skinned people in India face. After some thought, I have come to believe, it is possible, that these two seemingly disconnected issues, could indeed be linked.
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Rules, Flexibility And Efficiency
09 Mar 2017
Rules and laws are the foundation of civilized society. Yet it is not easy to make rules. A system that involves a large number of people, like a school, or a housing society, or a community is quite complex, let alone a city or a country. Rules are necessary for smooth functioning of groups. But no matter what rule is made, there will always be a few people who are reasonably inconvenienced by it.
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The Modern Family: Drop The Labels
28 Jan 2017
Sometimes, in our enthusiasm to to extinguish patriarchy and gender bias, we lose sight of he important stuff and follow formulas and mantras. Do we forget, that is what got us here in the first place?
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The Promise Of Tomorrow
05 Jan 2017
