Brand India Symbols
Narayan Murthy plays the instrumental form of the national anthem. Sachin Tendulkar cuts a tricolour cake. How should we treat symbols of Brand India?
Politics & Feminism
Commentary on current social affairs. Intersectional feminism examining questions of gender, sex, sexuality, caste, class, race, religion & other discriminators.
55-Words: Thick As Thieves
A 55 word story about being thick as thieves.
Touch Me Not: The Politics Of Body Contact
When I was about 17, I was suddenly fascinated by salwaar-kameezes. My mom, delighted with my sudden interest helped me build a collection of fabrics from around the country. Fab India, Nalli and the local markets helped. And the local darzi was a genius with the needle. So my lovely…
Happily Ever After – 2
Sometimes I think the only reason women have a problem at all, is because of the fairytales that are fed to us as children, all ending predictably in ..and they lived happily ever after. So who knows what “happily ever after” really means? I’m just finding out. Nope, I haven’t…
Happily Ever After
A friend and occasional blogger tells us about an arbit conversation that she had with her husband on the breeding habits of towels. Khee khee khee. “What are all the towels doing behind the door?” I asked him.“Breeding,” came the prompt reply.“Breeding?” Quite used to getting such answers by now,…
Man-hater? Let’s Get Serious.
I’m trying to make sense of the gender politics I have to navigate. But I seem to fall into joke bait. It’s not funny anymore. Let’s get serious about the Man.
Good Friends and Bad Books
So I finally finished ‘The secret dreamworld of a shop-a-holic‘. Oh, don’t run away! My taste in books hasn’t turned as sour as my taste in men (highly questionable according to one reliable source). Let’s start with how I come to be in possession of this disastrous book. Earlier this…
Manolos And Sindoor
My latest obsession is Sex and the City. For the past few days I’ve been wrapped up in the love lives of Carrie, Samatha, Miranda and Charlotte, dazzled by the wardrobes and their lifestyles, amused by their incessant man-izing (!) and thoughtful over the dilemmas they face. Okay, I know…
What would your ex- say about you?
Maybe I’ve just been watching too many episodes of Sex and the City but then, I’ve also been pondering on committment-phobias a lot recently. The last episode I watched ended with Mr.Big (Carrie Bradshaw’s grand love) getting engaged to someone else and Carrie musing: Maybe I hadn’t broken him in…
The Bad Boy
Now for a post on something I’ve been meaning to write on for a long, long while. It should have come earlier, I know so much about the subject after all. Why do women love bad boys? As a confirmed bad boy-o-holic myself, I wonder why I’m continuing to make…