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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...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Aug 21, 20182 min read
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Feminism & Peppa Pig
Yes. You read that right. IÂ am in fact, talking about the little pink girl-pig with the annoyingly cute voice. As any mother of a...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Aug 1, 20182 min read
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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...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Jul 12, 20182 min read
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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,...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Jul 8, 20182 min read
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MOTHERED!
It’s been a month since Swear You Won’t Tell? hit the bookstores, online and offline, and I’ve been a busy girl since. Cutting the...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
May 18, 20181 min read
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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...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Apr 27, 20182 min read
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My wicked little piece for PopXo
The 10 Types Of Listicles You Just Can’t Escape… In A Listicle! Clicking on a listicle is liking falling into a bottomless pit. A...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Apr 16, 20182 min read
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My piece for Sbcltr
MUMBAI: THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Vedashree Khambete-Sharma on the places and songs that perfectly sum up India’s maximum city Mumbai, as...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Mar 27, 20184 min read
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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...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Mar 19, 20182 min read
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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...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Mar 8, 20183 min read
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BEDLAM, HERE I COME
It’s a couple of weeks till Swear You Won’t Tell? hits the bookstores, online and offline, and I’m reaching critical levels of crazy. In...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Mar 5, 20181 min read
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Phew.
What’s up, you guys? Is it just me or are the days getting shorter? Seems counter-intuitive, I know. Summer’s not so much crept upon us...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Feb 16, 20182 min read
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This Just In…
Three hilarious Indian comedians whose sense of humour I love. One internationally acclaimed novelist whose work I adore. That’s four...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Feb 2, 20181 min read
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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...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Jan 24, 20182 min read
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Hi! Remember me?
Hey you guys, it’s been a while, right? To be precise, A WHILE. That last story was in February and if any of you have found your way...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Dec 28, 20172 min read
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A TALE OF TWO QUEENS
High up in her lonely tower, the Queen sat stitching. The King was away at war. He was often away at war. So she was often found in the...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Feb 9, 201720 min read
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Nonverbal Communication
Who told you to do that?, they asked. We didn’t. We never tried to influence your life. Those were your decisions. So if you have...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Apr 13, 20162 min read
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What they didn’t tell me about postpartum depression
They tell you a lot of things when you’re pregnant. And by ‘they’ I mean family, books, websites, friends who’ve been there, done that,...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Jan 6, 20163 min read
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Not Your Usual Mother’s Day Post
As the internet bubbles up with heart-warming mush about mothers this Sunday, this is me jumping on the bandwagon. But, differently....

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
May 8, 20153 min read
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Oh Screw You Too, Kangana Ranaut.
Ever since Pookie has made her gurgling way into our lives, newspapers have slowly made their way out. What was once used to grab quick...

Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Jan 8, 20152 min read
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