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Not a Fangirl

Hi! I’m Gargi, with dark brown hair that mostly look black but look brown in sunlight or in any…

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Eleanor & Park - 1

“The first time he’d held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It…

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Two Misfits

Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor is the new girl on the school bus – ‘fat’, red haired and…

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Bear Witness for the Dead and the Living

  Why did I write it?

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to…

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2014 Ebook Reading Challenge

Human Brain – 150 E-books

1. Night – Elie Wiesel

2. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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roses and daisies flesh and crazies glitter and rainbows arrows and crossbows a bright future a… http://wp.me/s2kHey-939

roses and daisies

flesh and crazies

glitter and rainbows

arrows and crossbows

a bright future

a dead sun

happiness and laughter

incarceration, emaciation

an optimist’s dream

a cynic’s reality

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And then..

And then I would go backwards up the stairs and put my bag underneath the seat. And then I’d wait…

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Karwa Chauth is Everything that is Wrong with our Society

Karwa Chauth is an Indian fasting tradition where a married woman fasts the entire day for the long life of her husband. The woman eats before daybreak, might have a cup of tea in the evening and finally eat after moonrise, from the hands of her husband.…

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Lajja: A Woman' Biography

The rights being privileges The woman goes From one day to the next No thought given to her.

Source of family respect But none given to her And we are a proud country And we are a proud species.

A faux pedestal For all the vanity While she languishes Waiti…

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There are no six o'clocks

Anymore.

meet him in the evenings or meet him at the dawn there are no six o’clocks anymore

a…

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10 Signs You've become too Weird for Home

You won’t want your kid to come back home like this.

You stick to your desktop screen. (Remember…

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The Simple Pleasure of Saying True Things

Apologies for two posts in less than two minutes – thoughts from last night

They say, to write fiction, one must have experienced some pain, else all that comes out is linear, one-dimensional fairy tales. I have been told it is true for other art forms…

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Sitting in this Bell Jar, Stewing in my own sour air

thoughts from last night

for she has closed the vent. She has closed the outlet. Nothing shall go out, and for this reason, the chances of anything coming in are bleak too.

Helen Fisher explains the brain in love. She tells the spot for romantic love in…

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A Definitive Guide to: Losing your Slippers (at HNLU)

Or how to lose your slippers in 5 easy steps.

Losing your slippers is not that big of a deal, if only you know the how-to. Below is a 5-point guide on losing your slippers (and kind of your dignity in front of people who have just joined your uni):

1. Go…

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I'll Leave My Slippers Behind

WARNING: Never leave your slippers unattended in the dark, with hormonal dogs around.

Wherever I go, whatever I do, my slippers stay with me. At least they DID. My little faithful pink and greens, I’ll miss you now. Too much for sitting in the cafeteria…

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In the World I am

“In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence”

- Bei Dao

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Back

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So, I came back to Raipur last evening and for some reason woke up really early. I’m pretty tired so I might go back to sleep.

Anyway, the trip was amazing! I’m just waiting for the time when the internet speed is decent enough to put up the pictures on…

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