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The Venus Flytrap: The Immortal Fallout
When Eric Maschwitz wrote “These Foolish Things” in 1935, he did so after parting with the actress Anna May Wong – she whose ghost it is that clings in the song’s most affecting lyric. In the dozens o… more →
Sharanya Manivannan
The Venus Flytrap: The Immortal Fallout
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 1 day ago: When Eric Maschwitz wrote “These Foolish Things” in 1935, he did so after parting with the actress A … more →
The Venus Flytrap: The Maladjusted Medium
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 4 weeks ago: “These leaves are used in headache ointments,” she said, and handed me a few. They had a interesting … more →
The Venus Flytrap: The Hum of Many Roads
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 1 month ago: Who knows what possesses us in those hours between departure and destination. We give ourselves over … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Touché ‘Tache
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 2 months ago: When Salvador Dali appeared on the 1950’s American TV game show “What’s My Line”, in which a blindfo … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Porcelain, Lately
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 3 months ago: I’ve been buying blue. Not the blues – not music or depression, both of which I have in abundance. I … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Son of a Sun
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 4 months ago: Dear Sun God (aka Papa), I hope you don’t mind if I hang around a bit more after my daily prayers to … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Constant Clicking
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 4 months ago: It used to be that the self-portrait was a revolutionary thing, a means of staking out the claim of … more →
The Venus Flytrap: The Sadness And The River
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 5 months ago: How much closer it is to morning than it is still night doesn’t matter, but I am talking to someone … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Not A Private Matter
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 5 months ago: When I became involved with Chennai’s first LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender – or in broad … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Viva La Diva
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 6 months ago: True to her reputation, the diva never lets on that she knows how to swim, but shoved off a plank, s … more →
The Venus Flytrap: In Defense of Developing World Diva Hair
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 7 months ago: I have oppressed woman hair. No, not “oppressed hair”, as Alice Walker famously put it; … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Surviving Venus Retrograde For Dummies
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 7 months ago: Venus, my beloved cosmologically-savvy friends tell me, is in retrograde. Which means that it looks … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Touching Souls
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 8 months ago: When I was little and lived in homes with real gardens, one of my favourite things to do was to step … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Bearing Witness
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 8 months ago: Somewhere on the road between Thanjavur and Thiruvarur, on the scorching afternoon of the last day o … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Songs In Another Language
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 9 months ago: There is no music nearly as atmospheric as a song in another language, a language one doesn’t … more →
The Venus Flytrap: The Armchair Amourist's Guide To Valentine's Day
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 9 months ago: I’ve never celebrated Valentine’s Day in my life. Don’t ask me why. But considerin … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Hunger
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 10 months ago: I recently met with a dear friend I hadn’t seen in a year and a half because we had both left … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Die Laughing
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 10 months ago: The funniest story I have heard in weeks is a tragedy. It’s presented as a true story (but rep … more →
The Venus Flytrap: Dentally Retarded
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Sharanya Manivannan wrote 11 months ago: I want to be a dental dunce. I really, really do. The first of my wisdom teeth has declared a very c … more →
