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    An Axe To Grind, An Axe To Fall

    February 13, 2008April 14, 2024
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    Raj Thackeray has just been arrested and is being driven to Vikroli for the court hearing. We’re living in a state of anticipation of revenge. Ergo – an axe to grind, an axe to fall.

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  • Body & Sex | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Pre V-day syndrome

    February 11, 2008March 13, 2023
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    Of all the things to talk about, I never thought we’d be having a pep-talk about not feeling bad about being single on Valentine’s Day. Of all the people, I never thought I would be the one giving it to him. ~o~o~o~o~o~o~  Nearing the end of dinner as he puts…

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    Manguide 4: States Of India

    February 6, 2008March 30, 2025
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    I categorise Indian men by the states they hail from.

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  • City | Politics & Feminism

    MNS and the “outsiders”

    February 6, 2008July 3, 2024
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    On Sunday, violence erupted in Mumbai (not again…). Taxi-drivers, paan-wallas and ‘outsiders’ (read UPites and Biharis) were the target of assault by frenzied MNS supporters. In an is-it-related-or-not incident, Amitabh Bachchan’s house was attacked the next day, spurred by resentment towards his move to set up a girls’ school in…

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    PenTathalon: A Mental Workout & Five Writing Exercises

    February 5, 2008November 10, 2023
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    The PenTathalon sounded like fun. And unnerving given its ‘Five Exercises for Fiction Writers’ description. What does a fiction writer look like, one wondered. I found out on the morning of Saturday, 3rd February.

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    Almost Normal – A Book At The Kala Ghoda Art Festival

    February 4, 2008November 10, 2023
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    The Kala Ghoda Art Festival this year takes me back to my campus days of festival-hopping. Make the trip for one event, bump into a whole lot of people who on reflection you know just will be there, catch another event completely on impulse and in general have a phlethora…

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  KGAF – The Early Bird Gets A Ride On The Black Horse!
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    KGAF – The Early Bird Gets A Ride On The Black Horse!

    February 4, 2008November 10, 2023
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    KGAF is Mela meets Social Awareness and they both get a lift from Commercial Sponsors to go to the Arty Party.

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    A Voice That Shatters Glass…The Glass Ceiling!

    February 2, 2008July 3, 2024
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    I was an amateur singer in college. Inadvertently, the campus festivals also became my ground for shattering glass celings with my voice.

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    Hair Raising On The Tube

    January 31, 2008November 27, 2024
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    I’m practically de-sensitized to the trash overload from the television set. After all.. Got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from… But every now and then there comes along something that makes me sit up and take notice. It would have been a normal, frenzied rush-hour day…

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    Beauty Parlour

    January 26, 2008March 30, 2025
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    Planning a rendezvous with a girlfriend. She is at the parlor and I have to wait till she gets done. I sit tight elsewhere and am most amused to hear her say, I think it will be an hour before I’m released!!! And if that sounds like parole from jail…

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