My Mother is beautiful. I know you’re thinking every child thinks so as all Mothers are beautiful. But mine truly is, inside out. My mother is an awesome cook and makes the best Moong Dal Halwa in the world, among many other dishes. She is THE person everyone wants at all weddings in the family…
Category: #ThinkingAloud
On Feminism and Empathy #MayTivation
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…
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…
Why Vanity is my Sanity
So a bunch of us Girls were having a serious professional discussion one day when, before we realized, we began 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…
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…
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….
How Host My Blog helped a tech-challenged Blogger graduate to a self-hosted Blog
I am Tech-challenged. By that I mean anything more than hitting the Send button and using Copy-Paste sends me into a tizzy. No, truly. And yes, when I learnt to download and play games on my mobile, I felt like I had graduated from MIT. Yes, THAT tech-challenged. Now that you’ve got the picture, do…
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…
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 leftover to munch on as I went about the task. Born into a…
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…