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DAUGHTER DESH KI
It was a rainy midnight in July in an exhausted little city called Poona. I was fast asleep when all of a sudden I heard someone breathe very heavily, almost choking with utter shock and bewilderment....
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MERI MAA KI...........
……............taareefon ka post hai yeh. What did you guys think huh? Bloody perverts.After my last rather soulful outburst, I decided to get back to who I really am most of the time-- shallow and...
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BOOTY AND THE BEAST
I came back home after another frustrating day at the office. Being a journalist can take the wind out of you and there are many times that you would like to turn your back and direct that very wind in...
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HOMIES IN 'MA CRIB'
I sat on my blue couch and perched my unwaxed legs on my bed and stared at the cream coloured blank wall. My crumpled clothes bore clear testimony to the fact that I didn’t seem to give a damn and my...
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SALAAM BHOPAL
As I lay on my soft cotton sheets and watch the rain violently tap against my window pane, the few lucky raindrops that manage so smoothly to enter through the crevasses of my wall tend to form an over...
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AN OPEN LETTER TO A DELHI BOY
Dear Delhi boy,Namaskaram from the South of India, or as you may like to believe, the countries south of the Vindhyas. I came to your city 2 years ago with a brand new job and a bucketload of...
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THE MADRASAN BREAKS HER SILENCE
So she sits before the laptop, the insolent Madrasan, exactly a week after her ‘Open Letter to a Delhi Boy’ landed her right into the harsh yet warm cradle of controversy. It shook her, it stirred her,...
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THE NATIONAL LOSS OF COLLECTIVE SHIT
I had vowed never to write about the blog again. Actually, I promised myself I’d not write for a while because for the past week I forgot the one key ingredient that makes the absolute pot of...
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EVERYBODY NEEDS A SUMMER HOLIDAY
Holiday season is upon us. Yes it is, atleast I would like to believe so coz let’s be honest , Diwali and Dussera are as close to any amount of action that the average Indian male will be exposed to,...
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MY NAME IS SIKKIM AND I AM NOT A CHINKY
This is exactly what ran through my rather awed mind when I encountered Tenzing Bhutia, a young man I met in the inner streets ofGangtok. I don’t know whether this should be a funny post or an...
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OUTLOOK UNCUT
Hello lovers, haters and those in the middle who still can't figure what to make of my writing,I was asked by OUTLOOK to write a piece for their anniversary edition. It was an absolute pleasure and I...
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CHUMMA CHUMMA DEY DEY
First kisses.Don’t we all remember those? When you were walked home and your steps were so lackadaisical that you felt like you might as well crawl to your front door. When the evening went off so well...
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I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND
Sorry for the delay. No wait, actually I am not. I have real life situations to deal with and they are not as flattering and attention gaining as this blog. They have in the past month included moving...
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THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
Ok so this time I am sorry for the hiatus. I have been busy but no so much that I should neglect this space and all its readers. Life in Bombay is all that they claim in the movies especially for...
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Yeh Tera Ghar, Yeh Mera Ghar
She walked in home drenched in the revelry of the night that had been. Reeking of whiskey and the warm yet comforting stench of tobacco. The doorbell rang about ten times, interspersed with her loud...
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AN ODE TO MY SINGLE SISTERS
I woke up this lazy morning and did the usual. Brushed my teeth, strolled around the house sipping my morning tea, making my way to papa’s study. He didn’t have to go to work today. He sat by himself...
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So here’s a thought- how about I be more regular with the blog? How about I not have to answer the barrage of questions that mainly revolve around why I’ve not been writing. How about me not writing...
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WORK FROM HOME: 5 WAYS TO GET IT RIGHT
So I've started working with a startup and I think I've made the right decision. It's a bunch of really smart, crazy, illogical, erratic alcohol lovers. Perfect fit, I know. So I've started blogging...
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RAPE ME, RAPE ME, SAY THAT YOU'LL RAPE ME?
I was hounded with calls, inundated with emails and chased down with Facebook messages after the 16th of December. The incident called for an uprising, voices of the youth to enter the seemingly deaf...
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THE BALLERINA FLIP
That's what they call it I'm guessing. That whole heady rush business, where that deep dark corner of your heart leaps out of your mouth and back into your chest. Oh yes, that feeling. Irrational,...
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JOSHI'S CHOICE
She trotted into our lives 13 years ago in the most adorable way possible. I heard someone yell out my name from the ground floor;“Listen, the lift is coming up to our floor, just open the door when it...
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