Ratika Deshpande
Ratika Deshpande
Ratika Deshpande
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Hey there! I’m Ratika Deshpande (she/her), a writer, reader, student, and global citizen. My articles have appeared in Reactor magazine, Authors Publish magazine, Submittable, and The Learning Scientists blog. I earned my B.A. (Honours) in Applied Psychology from the University of Delhi. Born in Indore, I studied in Nagpur and New Delhi. Currently, I’m pursuing an M.A. in Education. I love fantasy books, Studio Ghibli movies, Indian classical music and cooking.
March 2026
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77 posts published
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Favorite day to publish: Wednesday
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Latest posts
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2025 Letter 2025-12-31 04:03am
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Freshly dropped flowers 2025-12-06 09:15am
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Non-American and non-English books 2025-12-05 08:38am
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Just the tail 2025-12-04 08:36am
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What is my work? 2025-12-03 08:38am
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Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida 2025-12-02 06:10am
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The call of a new notebook 2025-12-01 09:14am
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One has to choose optimism 2025-11-30 09:47am
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Reading grief 2025-11-29 06:24am
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Lately, I’ve been thinking of writing a novel… 2025-11-28 07:13am
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Picture books and encyclopedias: The earliest books of my life 2025-11-27 06:32am
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Why it’s called courage 2025-11-26 08:39am
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Adulthood is all about controlling your emotions 2025-11-25 07:59am
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Some things I haven’t done in a while 2025-11-24 08:37am
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Swings 2025-11-23 08:53am
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Substitutes 2025-11-21 09:53am
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Short films and such 2025-11-20 09:54am
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Refining the TBR 2025-11-19 09:21am
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Ways of organizing your book lists 2025-11-18 05:28am
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Walking to fall in love with a city 2025-11-17 08:17am
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The art we make as children 2025-11-16 09:03am
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A few fun links 2025-11-15 08:45am
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A picture, expanded: The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş 2025-11-14 06:10am
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Order from chaos 2025-11-13 08:53am
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Little surprises 2025-11-12 04:50am
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Letters: A Reading and Watching List 2025-11-11 09:02am
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To go into another room and make pictures 2025-11-09 08:43am
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कौन है तू सखी? 2025-11-08 08:21am
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The Stormlight Archive: A Fanfiction Reading List 2025-11-07 08:54am
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Thursday Reading List 2025-11-06 05:37am
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The Austin Kleon Catalogue 2025-11-05 06:01am
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A loss of a quote is no big deal 2025-11-04 06:22am
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I could have been writing letters home 2025-11-03 09:40am
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I miss being around books 2025-11-02 08:36am
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Must all children have erasers? 2025-11-01 10:54am
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The joys of studying 2025-10-31 10:39am
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The Book List 2025-10-30 10:53am
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Three videos that helped me recently 2025-10-29 08:55am
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More notes on paper-based memories 2025-10-28 07:39am
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Money, meaning, memory, and legacies 2025-10-27 06:38am
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Letters and notebooks as mnemonic devices 2025-10-26 10:17am
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Spreading the word is part of the job 2025-10-25 05:55am
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If money wasn’t an issue, would I still be writing? 2025-10-24 09:15am
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Time, stretched out 2025-10-23 05:11am
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Some notes to return to a creative routine 2025-10-22 08:26am
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Scattered Readings 2025-10-21 07:10am
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वो दुष्ट चांद 2025-10-20 02:37am
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पत्ते की अभिलाषा 2025-10-19 10:03am
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I miss home 2025-10-18 10:33am
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#Inktober Day 17 – Ornate 2025-10-17 10:46am
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#Inktober Day 16 – Blunder 2025-10-16 10:18am
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#Inktober 14 and 15 – Trunk and Ragged 2025-10-15 09:53am
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Writing rules 2025-10-14 09:13am
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#Inktober Day 13 – Drink 2025-10-13 09:01am
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#Inktober Day 12 – Shredded 2025-10-12 09:13am
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#Inktober Day 11 – Sting 2025-10-11 09:16am
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#Inktober Day 10 – Sweep 2025-10-10 08:47am
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#Inktober Day 9 – Heavy 2025-10-09 09:45am
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#Inktober Day 8 – Reckless 2025-10-08 09:41am
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#Inktober Day 7 – Starfish 2025-10-07 09:32am
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#Inktober Day 6 – Pierce 2025-10-06 09:14am
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#Inktober Day 5 – Deer 2025-10-05 10:01am
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#Inktober Day 4 – Murky 2025-10-04 08:09am
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#Inktober Day 3 – Crown 2025-10-03 09:42am
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#Inktober Day 2 – Weave 2025-10-02 06:59am
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#Inktober Day 1 – Mustache 2025-10-01 09:12am
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The grief of leaving home 2025-09-30 06:43am
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The will of the paper 2025-09-29 07:27am
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The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst 2025-09-28 05:55am
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A list to rescue you from writer’s block 2025-09-27 06:46am
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Journal girls and resisting AI with pen and paper 2025-09-26 03:00am
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The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain 2025-09-25 09:42am
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What would Indian cozy fantasy look like? 2025-09-24 08:16am
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A summer list of lists to make (and lists made) 2025-09-23 09:11am