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A Calendar Too Crowded

My state right now and a book review too… I MUST begin this post by profusely apologizing to Sags and Harish… Sags because she is such a good friend and whose book I loved that I should have posted this review eons ago and Harish because damn, I think this is the record number of [...]

VAWM | How long is long enough?

Ranju was playing with her brothers and sisters, all 5 of them when her newly married uncle came visiting along with his new bride. She always used to look forward to the visits from uncle, he would bring along with him sweets from the city and a adult male presence in the house which was [...]

Education – a right or a privilege?

Gave a talk at a women’s college in DU recently was shocked to hear girls only wanted a good marriage. why waste a seat in univ then? What do you make out of the current situation of the country when above is a statement made by a journalist in one of the most popular news [...]

Equality

He :U will have to give up wearing Jeans after marriage She : yes I will & u will have to stop wearing trousers He : are u mad what will I wear She : dhotis…its all about equality my dear And saying this she walked out of the relation… This Woman’s Day lets try [...]

A mother of three daughters : God save her

We are three sisters and its a fact that I am proud of… a thing I would probably change for nothing… I remember my childhood as a total fun time, all three of us getting together and doing all kind of girly things… pretending to cook, taking care of our barbies, combing the neighbor didi’s [...]

So many mutaliks (post no 24)

Time : 13:00 Date : 27th May Place : on the road radio playing in background The RJ throws an interesting question to the listeners… they say “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” and this modern times when everyone doesn’t know how to cook what could be the other way to [...]

Favor huhn? (post no 21)

The other day I was talking to one of my friends and we got into talking about hubbies.. . She mentioned that I am very lucky to have found a husband like N who understands and helps in the house… Its a great favor he is doing to me… Now I agree to her views [...]

The next leader

So our dear sanjuy baba strike again… here is his in which he says that Manyata takes decision in the kitchen…. HT: Did your wife convince you to get into politics? Dutt: Manyataji takes the decisions in the kitchen.. aaj biryani banegi ya phir kabab or chicken. That’s where she rules. In other matters I [...]

Nirbhaya

Ok so yes I am stuck on being fearless… I still remember the day about 7 years back when I had decided to move to Banglore there were only two things that everyone said… the first i think everyone can guess… oh the weather is lovely and then came the next its a very safe [...]

Tell me Tell me

why does weekend fly away so fast? The weekend was a blast… Valentines day was well spent raising a toast to PPC and celebrating the first victory of Women Power And yesterday was fun too with lots of good cooking and a potluck dinner But why why why does the weekend fly away so fast??? [...]

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