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The Better Man

H R Venkatesh

Notes on trying to be a good guy (and failing a lot) in a post-patriarchal and feminist world.

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    Always striving towards better buddhi. I'm a rooted Bangalorean who sank roots afresh in New Delhi. At large in London.

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