Rockstar
This was based on a writing exercise on a secret: “Always dreamed of being a lead guitarist and performing with Sting”. So I tapped my inner Rockstar.
Masculinity
Guilt-Reading
I hate it when writers pull stunts like that, making a book sound like something else in its title. I only bought it because the blurb described it as the male ‘Sex And The City’.
Closure Is Your Own Secret Recipe
I learnt something about closure
Should The Girl Ask The Guy Out?
Being the woman taking charge means one is playing an unusual role and there’s ample scope to be misunderstood. So should a girl ask the guy out?
My Looks Are Not Your Excuse
I wasn’t a pretty child. Oily skin, stringy hair, gangly long limbs. Then puberty came along, and like a fairy godmother, bestowed me with a complete makeover. Suddenly I had the passport into BabeLand. That was an eon ago, long enough anyway to make me wonder whether the fairy godmother…
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.
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…
Freedom at 30
For the first time ever,in my conscious memory,none of my dreamsor things that I look forward toin the future with anticipationhave anything to do with a man. Isn’t that something? Even if it did take me three decades to get to it.It was so worth it. 30 is good. —————————————————————————————————–A version…
I Style! – Biting Nuts
I was just about to give up on this section as I found it rapidly running out of options. What’s more, it has gotten a little tiresome to discover that even the wildest of us only show our individuality in our footwear! Then, like a ray of neon, electric-strobe light,…
The Man-Child: Tribulations Of A Twenty-Five-Old
There is a new kind of man about making me rethink my notions of relationships. Welcome to the 25 year old who comes with his own tribulations.