Very recently Mira Rajput Kapoor was in the news, for speaking her mind. 22 years old, married to a star and a new mother all in the span of a short year and a half, this is what Mira said. Her views and comments got her serious amount of flak from women all over. She was called names, cursed, ridiculed, …
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Stop! #BangaloreMolestation
Yesterday, I turned an observer. I observed myself. I dressed up to meet a friend and as I did I realised that I looked at myself from every angle ensuring that the kurta I was wearing wasn’t too well fitted and my flowing hair stylishly, and cleverly, covered my chest. I even stood in the light of the balcony to …
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Vanity is my Sanity!
So a bunch of us Girls were having a serious professional discussion one day when, before we realized we were pouring our hearts out to each other (we are Girls, that’s how we roll!) In the midst of this crazy, baring-our-souls-out, conversation one of us remarked that thankfully we don’t look like all that we’ve all gone through and I …
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5 Shopping Etiquettes we could all benefit from
With Diwali around the corner and the Wedding Season close on its heels, Shopping is the thing on everyone’s mind. Clothes shopping, being the foremost. I went shopping too. As I stood in the queue snaking up to the trail room, a lady exited one of the trail stalls, and I spotted a Kurta on her arm, which was what …
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Why I keep Karwa Chauth and why should you keep your opinion about it to yourself
Karwa Chauth is an annual festival largely observed by women in the Hindi-speaking Northern and Central regions of India. It usually occurs 10 days before Diwali, and on this day women fast without food or water from dawn till they spot the moon, as they pray for a long and healthy life for their husband. My very first memory of …
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Sisters
As girls we grew up hearing, ‘There is safety in numbers’. We started believing it when we were whistled at, or followed, or deliberately brushed against, or had filmy songs sung loudly for us as we walked the streets alone. We protested, we raged, we swore to change things when one of our ilk was molested or abused. But …
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Cooking up a storm!
If I had an idli for each of the times I’ve been told, ‘The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.’ I would be able to cover the earth till it resembled one humungous idli, and even then had some left over to munch on as I went about completing the task. Born into a Punjabi family, I …
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Tales of a Teetotaler
The reason I don’t need a drink is because I’m always high on life. I have had an inkling of it for a while now. Careful and constant observation has confirmed it. And I am now completely convinced that I belong to the fast-heading-towards-extinction species, otherwise known as, ‘Teetotalers.’ A Teetotaler in today’s world is a rare specimen. Everyone wants …
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Booked for life
We at ‘Times of India’ are starting a new series on Bookmark called BOOKED FOR LIFE. It will consist of first-person accounts by book lovers on their relationship with their collections, favorite books, unfavourite books, reading habits and so on. Essentially personal, the pieces can be funny, nostalgic, righteous, ironic, and even rants are more than welcome. It could be …