Every Moment Is An Opportunity To Fall In Love
We can choose to get angry or nitpick or find fault with or be offended by. Or we can choose to look at what a wonderful experience it is. Love.
Year: 2013
Open Heart Surgery
The man I called ‘Mr.Everyday’ broke my heart and other things.
Fear Culture: My Week Since The #MumbaiGangRape
One week since this happened. The media has its baby for the fortnight or so. TV is gruesome entertainment with politico-types competing, reality-show like to see who can say the most outrageous/stupid/TRP-generating things. How has real life been for the regular Mumbaiker? I can tell you how mine has been….
India Hates Its Women: This Mumbai Woman Bows Her Head In Shame
Mumbai, masquerading as the exception in a country that boasts of daughter-in-law burning, honor killing, female infanticide and as of December, gang-rapes in metros, has been outed.
I’m Not A Real (Something Something)…
You don’t have to be a ‘real’ anything to be real.
Everything That’s Wrong With Raksha-Bandhan
It might seem that I’m opposed to all Indian festivals but I’m actually, not. Not even to today’s grand occasion of Raksha-bandhan. Well, I have no problem with honoring the sibling relationship. If anything, I’m all for occasions that remind you to be grateful for the presence of special people…
On The Gentleness Of Silence
So much comes up in silence, even somebody else’s silence.
The Friendship Frisson
I like to call it a frisson in friendship, not even something important enough to merit beginning with capitals and being preceded with a ‘the’
I Style!: Retro Style for Gadgets
If this mobile phone were a woman, she’d be rocking the retro look. I spotted this cassette-style mobile phone cover on someone’s table at my last office. Gadgetry has become a vital part of our style quotient as well so for the first time, here’s featuring a gizmo on I…
Ideart: Music Is The Colour Of Mirth
So I created this, from an old pickle jar, for a friend who wanted a picture of mirth (yellow and orange are those, aren’t they?). The sheet music and the rest of the symbols have special significance for him. Note – This is only one bottle. Each image is a…