Mayhem in the polling booth and more

My Polling Booth Debacle There must be some 6 spiders in the top left corner of the corridor where I was standing to cast a vote last week. I know because I was twiddling my thumbs and counting random things in an attempt to avoid participating in a conversation. You really don’t want to get …

Where are the lionesses?

We have had two seasons of the Women's Premier League. The ladies on the cricket field are now paid just as much as the gentlemen in India - a landmark in pay equality! Mitali Raj, Smriti Mandana are household names. And Bengaluru gave the most rousing welcome to the RCB Women last week. Yet the …

Notes By The Sea

For quite a few years, I was under the impression that I am a Pluviophile. Like a character in a Victorian-era novel, I romanticized the idea of cold, rainy days, curled up on the couch by the window with a book and some piping hot food. But when one such rainy day actually arrived, rarely …

Epics, Men and Women

Men and Women in Mythology - A Perspective I have been blessed with a bumper harvest of patience and empathy. And as we all know, too much of anything is dangerous. So I am often pushed to a corner, wringing my hands in an attempt to understand the assholery behind a human face, all because …

What If? – A North Indian Love Story

Don't blame me for writing this movie script ... it all began when Karan Johar made Meenakshi Sundareshwarar, the aesthetic eyesore for every South Indian. He got me thinking. What if, in a parallel world, Atlee plans to make a film starring Karthi and Aishwarya Rajesh in the lead role? Presenting to you ... Lucky …

A Birthday Note To A President We Love

If there is one book that moved, inspired and impacted me the most, I would say it is Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama. I read it a few years ago. Like most of my great reads, this one came looking for me. I was caught unaware and held spellbound. As young Obama went …

You Are Cancelled

This week Enid Blyton joined the long list of people we woke, know-it-all netizens have cancelled. I woke up to the shock, and I am still unable to process where we are heading. English Heritage, a charity in the UK, had found it offensive that in Blyton's story "The Little Black Doll" from 1966, the …

How the boring, soda-glass feminist came to be

Do you realise how much of the present lays a foundation for the future, for people, society, culture and perception? Here is an example. Movies. I guess the biggest problem with today's perception of Feminism and Stereotyping of women in the larger section of society, at least in the case of India, is the movies …

Journeys and Companions

The internet generation that we are, there is no dearth of quotes and imagery preaching life. But only experience makes lessons memorable. A few years ago, work took me to Johannesburg. Here was one exotic and terrorizing city. On one hand, my friends were more excited for me than I was, because Hey! African Safari!!! …

An Ode to Winter & Reading

If you like Hallmark movies and Hollywood rom-coms, check this out! An ode to winter and reading, from the romantic in me. https://www.readomania.com/blog/winter-reading-books