Beauty Over Brains
If you had to choose between breathtaking beauty and Einstein-like brains, what would you pick?
Politics & Feminism
Commentary on current social affairs. Intersectional feminism examining questions of gender, sex, sexuality, caste, class, race, religion & other discriminators.
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The Passive-Aggressive Chauvinist
Men who provide services (waitstaff, plumbers etc.) show their misogyny in their behaviour to woman customers. Even if we are the ones paying the bill. Indian men would literally rather lose a customer than serve a woman.
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The Man Shop
The man is now available on sale just as well and my gender has always enjoyed shopping. Let’s look at what The Man Shop has to offer.
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A Piece Of Sky
“That little piece of sky there, that’s going to be ours.” thought my father looking up at the sky at the construction site of what would one day be our home.
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The Pygmalion Complex: Is This Feminist?
‘My Fair Lady’ got me thinking about the gender politics of a man trying to mold a woman.
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The Modern Woman
A poem about the Modern Woman. The image is a rangoli I did, copying the cover of Diwali Malar.
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Survivor’s Guilt In The City Of Gold
City of Gold focuses on one family and some related characters and how these events shaped their lives. It’s sobering to see what one normally reads as a newspaper headline over morning tea, turn into a catastrophe that destroys entire families.
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Indian Relationships: A State Of Anarchy
Don’t we all know a guy who promises the world to every second girl, believing correctly that she’ll keep it to herself because, it still isn’t done for a girl to admit that she’s been with a guy? There is nothing to check him from repeating the same over and over again in future relationships.
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The Faceless Hand In The Crowd
I first wrote about the hand in the crowd for Blank Noise Project’s blog-a-thon. The post featured on Yahoo! Real Beauty and also on BlogAdda’s Spicy Picks.
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Mother World: Aishwarya Rai’s Pregnant
So India’s contribution to otherworldly beauties is pregnant. My first thought was that it wasn’t either parent who announced this news but the grandfather (and indisputably the more famous Bachchan). I wonder if someone were to ask the younger Bachchan how come he didn’t say anything, his reply would be,…
