Family Life
Sushila Aunty was the talk of the family. She never married in the days when it was unfashionable to be single. Sushila Aunty is a doctor, and once I asked her, when she was in a mellow mood, why she remained unmarried. She looked at me strangely, as though I was being quaint, and said, [...]
Read MoreAliens
I have a recurring nightmare. I am in the Amazon jungle, and a rare Indian tribe is planning to do weird things to my body, including eating me up. I wake up just as the chief is starting to chop off my pinkie.
Read MoreBig People Small Statements
Rosa Parks was an African American citizen who refused to get up and give up her bus seat for a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. This individual act of defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which led to further civil disobedience movements by African Americans, fighting for equality in the deeply racially segregated Southern states [...]
Read MoreTill Death Us Do Part
It is eight in the morning and the phone rings just once before it is picked up by may father’s ready and waiting hand. For every day, for the past seven years, the phone has rung like this every single day at eight in the morning. Uncle Ram is on the other side. He has [...]
Read MoreLife at Twilight
At a certain point, the thought of old age haunts one constantly. This is usually the stage when one’s parents have become dependent because of ill-health. They are lonely, since they are no longer socially active. They are bored since they can no longer go out for entertainment. They are ill-tempered, since they have to [...]
Read MoreSingly Yours
Smita and Anushri are both very dear friends of mine from school. Both are independent, intelligent and strong women. They both work, and are well-known professionals in their respective fields, appearing on various talk shows frequently as experts. And there’s a yawning gap between the two.
Read MoreLove, Sex aur Trust
Mini, my friend, has finally found a boyfriend, Ketan. I’ve met Ketan. He’s a likable enough man. He works in a BPO, and talks even to his Indian friends with an American accent, though he is from Dombivli, near Mumbai. He leaves home at 8 at night for a 10 pm shift, and returns at [...]
Read MoreMillion Dollar Baby
The character who brought tears to my eyes in CNMO is Ramamurthy. Unlike the others, Ramamurthy didn’t make inside the hallowed portals of the IIM. He isn’t smug, superior or selfish like some of the other characters. He is nice, but always aware that while the others went ahead, he got left behind in the [...]
Read MoreThe Missionary Position
I don’t know if the missionary position in sex is all that charming. A man lies on top of the female form, practically crushing her with his weight, and expects her to enjoy it. Frankly it is wrong physics.
Read MoreThe Sexual Being
Typically a girl reaches puberty by the age of thirteen, and a boy by the age of fifteen. Puberty is nature’s way of telling us that our bodies are now ready for sexual activity. Society, on the other hand, wants us to wait.
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