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- What Do You Believe?
Self awareness leads to self confidence and when you know your self life automatically becomes more meaningful.
- Imperfection is Bliss
Do you know he masturbates? My father alleged, referring to my son.
- Sense And Sensibility _ Are We Losing It?
It is high time we realize that we are not differentiated by our religion, language, political boundary, faith but are united by the single thread
- Bhai - Brother DearestThe first thing I asked when I saw him was, Maa is bhai a boy or a girl?
- Worthy Matters
Are housewives really "economically non-productive workers", just like beggars and prostitutes?
- Falling in Love
I wanted her to see how one could fall in love.
- Pleading "Not Guilty"I often joke that the only trips I take are the Guilt Trips that the states of being a mother, daughter, wife, and friend induce.
- An Overdose of Saccharine
On Father's Day, I try to describe my father to you.
- My Tryst with 'Papahood'
Fatherhood often brings you up-front with your own foolishness, fallibility and frailty.
- Unconditional LoveApuchi taught me that the connect between Gen Ex and the Gen Next is pure and pristine – a connect that the ‘generation-in-between’ can rarely
- Idli, Sambhar and Chicken 498a
Order VAWA, made of Idli RAWA and get a complimentary Green Curd.
- Should Parents be Made to bear Children’s Marriage Expenses?
Culture of Marriage spending violates freedom and liberty of people.
- Can This Rat Race be Halted?Let’s not get caught up in the same mindless rat race of smaller, better, faster, richer and smarter.
- The End of Arranged Marriages?
Arranged marriages are like trying to find a job to satisfy your basic needs.
- Khushboo and Odor
The crux of the issue is not morality, but freedom of speech
- Indians in the USA – Their Racial Perspectives
What explains the racism of Indian immigrants to African Americans in the USA? - Photography Times: Married
Here’s to the Bharathiya Naari – an epitome of Indian tradition.
- Should Marriage be Abolished?
Should family be replaced by Commune?
- Kensei, Our Warrior Cat
Grief tends to dull with time but then it returns in the form of memories.
- Oh Calcutta!
I love Calcutta, I do. But more than four days there, and I'm yearning to get away from all the questions.
- Liberate Our Students From Sexual Repression
Students from Hindi and Marathi medium schools are basically unexposed to the ideas of Individuality, free thought, and freedom from repressed sexuality.
- Marital Bliss - Happily Ever After?
From Gangtok to Ooty, Kanyakumari to Kalimpong , there was no escaping them.
- Photo Essay: Flowers From Our Winter Garden
This January seems to have produced a fine crop of blooms.
- Travel Review: Bheemeshwari Fishing Camp, Cauvery
We spotted our first crocodile sunning itself on one of the river rocks within a few minutes into our arrival at the Camp
- Fiction: Rockstar
I’ve just discovered a kink in my sexual make-up.
- Casual Racism in Advertising
Skin lightening creams are nothing but a thin manifestation of racism.
- Where Does "Control" Figure in Your Parenting Style?
When I first became a parent, I thought I could control all aspects of bringing up my child.
- McDonald's India - As Indian As You and Me
Being a little chubby should no longer be seen as a matter of pride or a mark of affluence.
- Saving The 'Feriwala'
Why a corporate takeover of the Indian 'bazaar' is not such a good idea.
- Indian Hospitals: 3 Deaths, 24 Hours
I realized the conditions of our hospitals that day
- The (Sur)real World of Indian Television
Ranging from bizarre to downright pathetic, the ideology behind most of whats on the idiot box nowadays escapes me. - Illness, Morbid Thoughts and Lack Of Sun
Each day seemed like the day before - lousy to the core and the nights were the worst
- Life On The High Seas
First hand experiences on board ship on the high seas.
- Marital Breakdowns and Children - Fugitive NRI Woman & Child Detained
A woman, who is accused of parental kidnapping of her US Citizen child to India is detained by CBI as per directive of Supreme Court - Memories of Medinapur
Medinapur means a lot to me. I grew up hearing tales about Medinapur
- Hygiene Hypothesis
This is the story of every germophobe.
- That Coming of Age ThingIs it all it's cut out to be?
- Sand Art
Muggulu (telugu) Kolam (Tamil) and Rangoli (hindi)
- Nawwab and I: Thanksgiving 2009
t: How do you deal with these blood thirsty Talibans? N: Listen to them. Treat them as jilted lovers.
- Book Review: The Poison Tree - Planted and Grown in Egypt
A Single Independent Egyptian Woman's take on Love and Relationships.
- To Travel or Not To Travel
After six months of living in this city, in this house, it all seemed just like the day we first moved in.
- Animal Husbandry, a la My Wife
When she makes some strange noise, the dogs would follow her wagging their tails, like the rodents followed the fabled Piper.
- What Is Love?Why does the heart feel so empty without love? Why does existence seems so hollow and meaningless without it?
- Quacks & Gullible Folk
The quack said, 'You have come in time, otherwise this black hairy thing would have grown like a tennis ball in the stomach and killed
- US Open 2009 - It Must be Love
A look back at the US Open, where sport succumbed to love.
- Chances, Choices, and Chemistry
The secret code I use to refer to the process of meeting an eligible bachelor is 'A tray session'
- Movie Review: Antichrist by Lars von Trier
The film opens with the pelvic thrusts of William Dafoe ("He") and Charlotte Gainsbourg ("She").
- The Issue of Rifqa Bary
There is a lot going on here, and it is hard to know who is telling the truth.
- Travel Review: Aruba
Did I mention the sand was white? How about the crystal clear turquoise waters?
- Travel Review: Return To Ootacamund
My love for the Nilgiris, or Neelghiris as it was known during the colonial times, endures.
- When Kids Ask About Death
A hopeful wish, my heart whispered, knowing death was non negotiable.
- Fiction: A Room Of One's Own
This story has been written in third person and then in first person. Which works better and why?
- Quitters do Win
Winston Churchill and his permanent appendage created a positive association between success and smoking in my mind, turning me into a smoker.
- TV Review: Sach Ka Saamna - Moment of Truth
It's the thought police coming to get you.
- Surnames, Globalization, and More
It is high time countries all over the world ditched the notion that every name should consist of a surname and a given name.
- Fiction: The Best of Both Worlds
If only the adults could be pragmatic and not lug so much excess baggage around!
- Cooking For The Family
Its been eight years to my marriage and I find myself chained to the kitchen and not half a good cook as my mom.
- Book Review: The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
Sethi conveys to his readers the sights, sounds and smells of upper-middle class Pakistan
- Harassment Of Women On Cairo Streets
What makes men in Egypt harass women on the streets with impunity?
- Teamwork
Three minutes left for the class to start and the son gets antsy.
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