Motherhood – The Great Indian Relationship & The Only One
It’s easy to blame Raja Betas on poor motherhood . But ‘Wake Up Sid’ made me realise that Indian women are molded into a peculiar kind of motherhood.
The ‘It’s Complicated’ Relationship
We are a generation of options. ‘It’s complicated’ refers to everything in our lives. But is it just the men making it so?
NovelRace Week 10: Everything But The Novel
This week on Novelrace, I hit on everything but the novel itself. And I’m trying to eke out insights on writing from this bizarre disorientation.
The Whole Tooth & Nothing But The Tooth
A tooth extraction and some ouch ouch instead of wisdom.
Market Day
Today I feel like I’m inside a wellthat no one’s looked down in ten years.And around and just outside the well,it’s Market Day The voices and the sounds, they reach me,blurring into each other and not discernible.It’s not noise, it isn’t sense eitherbut it is painful nostalgia, of what life…
Anonymous
This was written (like most of my poetry) a long time back…a lifetime ago when I was anonymous. I’m posting this today to celebrate my own decision to give up the last vestige of my anonymity. So for those of you, my dear readers, who don’t know me yet, my…
Quoted In Mail Today Story On Social Networking: “Scraps pip tweets”
Neha Tara Mehta has written a very interesting article for Mail Today about social networking in India. She looks at the popularity of Orkut, Facebook and Twitter as well as the attitudes of their various subscriber groups. I along with several other bloggers including the ‘ooh-I-wish-he-wasn’t-gay’ Harish Iyer and WATblog…
“Addicted To The Internet?” – Quoted In Sunday Hindustan Times
I was quoted in Neha Bhayana’s story about Internet addiction & restricting net connectivity in Sunday Hindustan Times on 6 September 2009. Reformed Net addicts Ramya (30) and Moksh Juneja (27) said that there is no need to have regulations. “Adults should be allowed to decide what is best for…
I Style! – The BEST Man
I spotted Neil Dantas at The Wall Project and I just had to stop him to tell him just how I Style! he was! Isn’t his tee-shirt absolutely fab? It’s Bambaiyya in a way that nothing else starts to match.For the uninitiated, BEST, an acronym for Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and…
NovelRace Week 9: Taking A Stand
This week’s NovelRace revelation happened in conversation with friend Rehab when she asked how to deal with a topic that might become controversial.