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    Reclaiming Pink
    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Mar 6, 2021
    • 3 min

    Reclaiming Pink

    When I was four, my father had to travel to Germany for work. This was the first time he was travelling abroad and as was the tradition...
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    To The Hands That Build... Buildings
    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Feb 10, 2021
    • 2 min

    To The Hands That Build... Buildings

    Oh my love, it’s a long way we’ve come; From the freckled hills to the steel and glass canyons; From the stony fields, to hanging steel...
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    A Fifteen-Year-Old Remembers
    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Feb 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    A Fifteen-Year-Old Remembers

    On February 5th, 2007, I took my first awkward steps into this new-fangled thing called 'blogging'. So much has happened since and so...
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    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • May 12, 2020
    • 2 min

    Carpe That Diem Already

    What will our children remember of us? Ever think of that? I do, all the time. Because when I look back to the memories I have of my...
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    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Nov 5, 2019
    • 3 min

    Good Shoes, My Foot.

    I was in the vile wasteland of Twitter the other day and came across a tweet, where a woman had asked why little-boy-shoes are so much...
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    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Oct 14, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Man in the Brown Suit

    On Saturday, Rook and I had ventured into Dharavi. Our quest? To find a nice leather purse for Rook’s mom who recently turned 75. Because...
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    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Oct 7, 2019
    • 3 min

    Be Still, My Spleen

    Yesterday, in a furious burst of pre-Diwali madness, we ventured to the old furniture market at Oshiwara. The errand was simple: get a...
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    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Sep 24, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Passive Aggressive Period and Other Tales of Punctuation

    The internet has changed the way we do… well, everything. Think, speak, write, love, hate, sing, dance, read. Everything. It has also...
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    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Apr 20, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being Mommy

    On Tuesday morning, halfway through my physiotherapy, I got a call from Rook. Pookie had apparently shoved a screw up her nose. It was...
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    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Mar 19, 2019
    • 2 min

    Oh. You Again.

    The funny thing about people is we get used to things pretty quickly. What’s once surprising, if repeated often enough, becomes the new...
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    A Pain In The Neck and Other Considerations
    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Feb 18, 2019
    • 2 min

    A Pain In The Neck and Other Considerations

    In Greek mythology, there was a monster who Theseus had to fight. This guy had a bed he tied his prisoners to. If they were longer than...
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    WHAT 2018 TAUGHT ME
    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Nov 12, 2018
    • 3 min

    WHAT 2018 TAUGHT ME

    This smells like a year-end post. It has all the ingredients – the googlies life threw at me, the good stuff that happened, the lessons I...
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    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Oct 23, 2018
    • 3 min

    Why #MeTooIndia Matters

    Over the past month, I’ve been following the #MeTooIndia tweets on Twitter, as the movement spread from the entertainment industry...
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    MOTHERING IN THE TIME OF HOMOPHOBIA
    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Aug 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    MOTHERING IN THE TIME OF HOMOPHOBIA

    The other day, I was out shoe-shopping. Don’t ask why. You may as well ask why I’d taken Pookie along. Fine. I’ll tell you. It’s because...
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    The Philosophy of Pain
    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Jul 12, 2018
    • 2 min

    The Philosophy of Pain

    Hardship, I remember reading somewhere, is what steers man towards god. We turn to spirituality, not while being buoyed on the frothy...
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    Weather Update: Shit Storm Continues
    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Jul 8, 2018
    • 2 min

    Weather Update: Shit Storm Continues

    Two months and not a peep out of me. A near impossibility in real life, but it’s what’s happened online. In case you’re wondering why,...
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    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Apr 27, 2018
    • 2 min

    Tired In The City

    Every generation has a moniker that defines them. The Lost Generation. Generation X. Millennials. And squished between the last two are...
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    It’s Alive.
    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Mar 19, 2018
    • 2 min

    It’s Alive.

    And so, like someone teetering under a gigantic, heavy box who has somehow managed to keep it where it was supposed to be kept without...
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    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Mar 8, 2018
    • 3 min

    AN OPEN LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER

    Dear Pookie, You’re four years old now and learning things that seem formidable and challenging. How to eat with your own hand. How to...
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    Vedashree Khambete Sharma
    • Jan 24, 2018
    • 2 min

    Abandon All Shame, Ye Who Enter Here

    There’s just over one month left for the book to come out and as you can imagine, I’m bursting with joy going out of my mind. This is...
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