Elizabeth Bennet & Scarlett O’Hara: Literary Icons of the Modern Woman
I examine Elizabeth Bennet (of Pride & Prejudice) & Scarlett O’Hara (of Gone with the wind)’s different paths through powerful womanhood.
Books
Book reviews & analyses
Erma Bombeck’s Cope Book – Being Average & Coping
Discover the wisdom in coping with ordinary life through Erma Bombeck’s perspective in ‘Aunt Erma’s cope book’. Passion overrated, average undervalued.
A Wish-List At Each Age: 20 Years Of Me
My journey through the years traced in a different wish-list at each age – from childhood innocence to adult aspirations.
Body & Sex | Books | Pop Culture | WorkSpace
Crush
My 14-year-old cousin thinks the Indian Idol, Abhijeet Sawant ‘has nice eyes’. She has his album carefully tucked away between her best clothes. And she thinks the contestants of Fame Gurukul are so lucky because one of them got to sing a duet with him. Ah….it is beginning! My kid…
Books | City | Pop Culture
A Visit To The Bookstore
A trip to the Oxford bookstore yields some cynical trends about readers and the publishing industry and ends in a befuddling find.