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WWW: Winter, Weddings and Work
Ok, so winter is almost here, and it’s time for two of my pet peeves, when it comes to blogging, i.e. weddings and work. Year after year, you would read about the same things, rehashed and packaged...
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Life as I DON'T know it
Work has suddenly assumed centre stage in my life, and if you know me, you would also know that this is a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence! Usually I avoid work like a plague and as for working weekends,...
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Joyride
Irrespective of whichever place I have been in Bombay, one thing that has remained constant over the years, is the joy of those auto/cab rides: right from the short hop from VT to Regal to Fort to...
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Soulgoats
This weekend Soulgoat was in town, paying through her nose ONLY to meet me. We hurriedly did a detailed calculation and spread her airfare over 3.5 days and came up with a figure of Rs. 125 bucks per...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
As my love-hate relationship with the corporate world continues, it never ceases to amuse me that companies can stoop to any level to deny employees they “don’t like”. Mind you, here, “like” has...
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Anon Comes to Town
Lately I had been bonding a lot with my OTHER women friends, and it has not gone down too well with anon, as she felt that her status as my best friend was being threatened. Hence, gripped by fear and...
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Living Next Door to Alice
A few months back, I wrote about the engagement of my two close friends in this post. Now that I am in Kolkata to attend their wedding, I thought it’s time to bore all five and a half readers with the...
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A Fairy Land called Kolkata
One week of complete indulgence, one big fat Bengali wedding and one family reunion: that sums up my trip to Kolkata!As always, Kolkata was home, Kolkata was warm despite the chill of winter, Kolkata...
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Crime and Punishment
The whole world, it seems, is talking about the Delhi gang rape case: the incident has managed to attract the attention of a thick-skinned, usually indifferent and often insensitive generation, caught...
View ArticleThe End of an Era
I was looking forward to this weekend with a lot of hope and expectation: may be Mayan WAS right, may be the world WILL come to an end and may be I would finally make peace with the world and the...
View ArticleHoney You Kid Yourself!
So I had ranted against the annoying habits of women in this post, but it seems I left out one very important trait, which leads to potential misunderstandings and often leaves perfectly innocent men...
View ArticleClosure
Suddenly everybody seems to be in their annual review mode now that the year has ended and a new one has begun: so yes, TV and radio channels are out with their “best of 2012” playlists, newspapers are...
View ArticleBetween the Lines
I have been a Nandita Das loyalist for as long as I can remember. She is one of the very few Indian actors who has managed to hold her own despite being unconventional and unconventionally beautiful....
View ArticleThe Flytrap
It’s been almost four years since I have lived and worked in Powai: the same old roads, the same old restaurants, the same old buildings, the same old shops and the same old people. My life revolves...
View ArticleDevil Wears Green
So for someone who has spent roughly one-seventh of her life (including this weekend) in the trial rooms of different stores across the world, I can safely vouch for myself as some sort of a subject...
View ArticleValley of Dolls
This week I went for a haircut. Now, my hair is one of the few things that I am fussy about, and I usually go to a well-known overcharging leech of a salon even if it’s just for a trim. So, as I sat...
View ArticleFading Glory
This weekend I kicked off my 2013 travel with an impromptu (by my standards) trip to Aurangabad. I had been planning the Ajanta-Ellora visit for almost two years now, but somehow it never worked out....
View ArticleThe Girl Who Played with Fire
Despite my strong communist roots, I have always been a staunch follower of the laissez faire policy. Like most urban middle class kids brought up in the 90s, we believe in liberalization, free market...
View ArticleThe Meena Kumari Syndrome
I spent a major part of the weekend watching the Australian Open. Even though both Li Na and Andy Murray lost, I continue to be a staunch underdog supporter, more so than ever.And when I did find some...
View ArticleArt School Confidential
Call me a boring banker with no appreciation of art and culture, call me a corporate slave with no creativity or call me a one dimensional narrow individual with no sense of the finer aspects of life:...
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