<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[rantsandpraises]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rantsandpraises]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:23:09 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[What Can I Do? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don't want to face the aftermath The ruins a fabricated, pointless war I shouldn’t have to, but what can I do? I can only vote and...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/what-can-i-do</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65f3dd7af257396ae320d18d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 05:34:50 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Love]]></title><description><![CDATA[To love is to immerse yourself Into someone else, To look up at them and see The most beautiful being ever. To love is to share with...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/to-love</link><guid isPermaLink="false">656390a1c76c6b6aa4c99529</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 18:39:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singularity – A Break-Down of the Ultimate Question]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you want to know about the singularity of the universe, you aren’t alone. There is no introduction of any sort that I am qualified to...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/singularity-a-break-down-of-the-ultimate-question</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6551d1b35b32fa4014078e9a</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 07:39:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dreamt Up Heaven]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Dream or Heaven? It was a beautiful afternoon, a mild one. We’d just played frisbee in a lush green field, damp with dew under a...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/a-dreamt-up-heaven</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6541301224c676e58bc39e0a</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:49:44 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyday, Someone New]]></title><description><![CDATA[I genuinely admired the way she did her hair, her accented way of speaking, her humour and her kindness. I barely knew her, but music is...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/everyday-someone-new</link><guid isPermaLink="false">652cfdf65033f18d4d6c0691</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:10:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bane of Returning ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I fear that my fears Overwrite my love for my peers I'm scared of returning home To a room where I'd felt alone, To where I'd wished to...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/the-bane-of-returning</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6528124287ca9bacec58b3c0</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:39:34 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carnations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Roses, tulips and sandalwood I'd buy you a garden if I could. Beautiful boy, sunshine and warmth And summer, excitement and mirth; Silly...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/carnations</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6519d43a2f0fb58aa5d57ca6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:24:17 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aroma]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tea-stained mugs and whisked eggs A balcony overlooking pink sunrises A dramatic book and light day-plans A home washed with buttered...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/aroma</link><guid isPermaLink="false">651847b1d3d835408a1413e8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2023 16:09:31 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preeti]]></title><description><![CDATA[We were just friends. She’d hold her arms out for me, her comfortable chest to lay on, her comfortable aroma to feel at home in, and...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/preeti</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64e3c71ccb488212d4d36d18</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:21:13 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumi-esque]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everything I write is about love I hope you never find my art For it would be embarrassing, Forward, irrational, stupid, Devious,...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/rumi-esque</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64e31e5ce774980f731cba8d</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2023 08:21:06 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Untitled, With Love]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cycling back a long distance from eight hours of work on a Friday evening, I watch the sky spread above me: blue, blue sky with cumulus...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/untitled-with-love</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64bbae2bce5fa60cc07b62bb</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 10:25:03 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scientist]]></title><description><![CDATA[From benzene rings and pure handwritten logic, we’ve leapt to computers and algorithms. Somewhere in between my courses, my personal life...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/the-scientist</link><guid isPermaLink="false">648975280dcab17c173e742c</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2023 08:08:15 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing Into A Child]]></title><description><![CDATA[The shield I’ve been trying to destroy for the past five years is starting to grow again. A woman subject to casual sexism, pressurised...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/growing-into-a-child</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6461130122e7f48d321237ab</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 17:00:33 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Love]]></title><description><![CDATA[My love, infused in the oldest south Indian music, the violin singing praises of love in different raagas and mesmerising alapanas, with...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/en-kaadal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6437e7893d06a1bd48235ac5</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:30:52 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melatonin - Or The Lack Thereof ]]></title><description><![CDATA[3:40AM. I’m woken up by some demigorgon in a Pac-man maze- world preventing me from changing the ion channel density of a network. 3:50...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/melatonin-or-the-lack-thereof</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64328be1bbe4ea45d45ee654</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2023 10:05:26 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extinguished, Unrequited]]></title><description><![CDATA[He wrapped his hand around my waist. The moon to our left got foggier and foggier as my eyes fixated more and more onto his pretty,...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/extinguished-unrequited</link><guid isPermaLink="false">642b22b4b31f8e33dc3f0d2b</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 19:05:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rickshaw Guy ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The auto driver nodded to my call Amidst the downpour and road dirt. I manifested my broke uni student face, Faced him and asked ‘Sir...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/rickshaw-guy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6429d82dca1f6a139a679828</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:33:01 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Still Write Decent Literature]]></title><description><![CDATA[I sit back and stare at my screen in deep despair. Every ounce of poetic complexity had escaped me, and what’s left of my mangled brain...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/i-still-write-decent-literature</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6429d36126392dcc6fc93471</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:11:32 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta]]></title><description><![CDATA[I hate meta. In all earnestness, I hate meta. It’s just a bunch of jargon summing up to ‘I’ve run out of creativity’. It’s the most...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/_meta</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6429d018033a1ffced4caa84</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 18:58:52 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[F(t)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another you, another guy Another person telling me Life is amazing, deeds don’t matter; I love you. Life is amazing, I’ll believe it When...]]></description><link>https://tanmaidreddy.wixsite.com/rantsandpraises/post/def-fun-self</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6324ad77ac97d134b3488629</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:11:33 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>tanmaidreddy</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>