Navigating Family, Friendship, Marriage, Colleagues, Companions & other social connections
Another shouting match with my family. You know those scenes in movies where they’re trying to show a person who’s slowly losing it? They have this deep distorted voice booming all around in dingy gray surroundings. That’s how I feel now. The pressure to tie the knot is making it…
I believe everyone has been in love, in some form or the other, by the time they hit their late twenties. A lot of people I know have been in relationships. Most of them are even married and into that all-consuming activity of baby-making & rearing. Few people I know…
Who are we beyond labels of relationship?
He said, “Would you slap me if I asked you to spend the night with me?” I said, “No.”He looked positively thrilled as he squeaked, “Are you sure?” (Perhaps he assumed I was saying yes to the implied question when I said no to the direct one….does that make sense?…
I thought I had written everything I could think of, about women and men. Well, perhaps not. I don’t write all that much about relationships. And that’s the whole goddamn can of worms, isn’t it? Well..a new direction for this blog perhaps. I was in conversation with a blogger…those delightful…
I examine Elizabeth Bennet (of Pride & Prejudice) & Scarlett O’Hara (of Gone with the wind)’s different paths through powerful womanhood.
There is a world of difference between ‘student’ and ‘alumni’. If I had to write ‘Things they never told me about in b-school’, it would run into volumes.
Reflecting on Women’s Day, celebrating voices and the Blank Noise Project. A day of unexpected joys and appreciation for influential women. #WomensDay
Chatting with my cousin who’s in the middle of the placement week in top-notch b-school… He says that the international companies were all looking for women this year. All the women on campus had the most offers and best paychecks. I smirked when I typed “Maybe we just are superior”….
A humorous V-day at work with flowers, speed-dating, and candid discussions on Bollywood marriages. Love is in the air, and Cupid’s arrows hit the office.