Does Tanishq GlamGold’s Advertising Understand Women?
I’m not sure what to make of Tanishq GlamGold’s current ad campaign. Do they think women’s insecurities should be pandered to or gotten over?
Year: 2011
Social Networking – The Creation & Consumption Of Content
The harbingers of the social media revolution were content platforms. I wrote a two-part essay for Social Samosa about the history of social media in India.
Marvin’s World: Dash Games – Watch That Clock!
Time Management games are a great draw into casual mobile gaming. I love the Dash games.
NovelRace 12: All Kinds Of Wow
Remember Novelrace? Two years may as well be twenty on social media. But my journal on being a first time writer has one final chapter.
The Specialness Of A Display Picture
Is it pathetic when you look at the display picture of someone you haven’t talked to, in ages & think, “That picture was taken on my camera!” No, it’s not. And I’ll tell you why. Because it means I was there in that moment with that person. It means that…
Kapil Sibal & The C-Word
Kapil Sibal had Twitter outraging after suggesting censorship of social media content.
Girlfriend Or Single Mum?
I wonder if, at some point in the relationship, a woman feels more like a single mother than a girlfriend/wife. I know I certainly do. And I have one of the better ones. He doesn’t cheat, he doesn’t force sex on me. And yet, here I am. I’ve refrained from…
What Does Pop Culture Have Against Bloggers?
The boy gleefully tells me that a Grand Theft Auto (GTA) mission that he just completed, is called ‘Blogger This…!‘. In the game, a blogger has raised the shackles of a nightclub owner because of his negative posts about the club, after being denied entry into it. So the mission…
The ‘Modern Woman’ Is Not Another Gender Stereotype
The Modern Woman is a work in progress. She’s what’s left after the brutal resistance against archaic social structures.
Quoted In Sunday Mid-Day – ‘Why Men Won’t Let Women Speak’
I was quoted in a Sunday Mid-Day story about gendered harassment online titled ‘Why Men Won’t Let Women Speak’.