The first thing that someone usually asks when they meet you is, how are you? This is usually followed by - what are you doing lately ? Increasingly, I find that this is a difficult question to respond to. Questions such as why are you so busy and what do you do for a living …
Tag: society
Rising from silence
I have been angry all week. I have been unwell this entire week. My brain is busy trying to reconcile with the innumerable rapes it reads about and ignores in the news everyday. My heart is busy trying to tell me that it cannot rage indefinitely against eve-teasing, rape and molestation. But all I want …
Describe your family, the american way
It is only in the US that you will be forced to think about what kind of family you are and define it. While filling a form, the options included adoptive parents, single parent, interracial, LBGT, Grandparent caretaker, Parents with custody of children, Allergies, Have special needs child(ren), Have twins/multiples, Vegetarian/vegan Halal and Kosher. With …
Defining Feminisim
Many have asked me ( including S), to define feminism. This is by far the best definition I have encountered. And in case you want to know, yes I consider myself one. It is time I began to speak.
Who are you?
Time goes so slowly when you live in another person's mind. Everything takes on a different meaning, is coloured a different shade. Reality is blurred because you are not seeing through your eyes. That's what happens if you live your entire life through other people's viewpoint. Spend the days and nights doing things right, doing …
Marriage mayhem
The whole episode with Shrija, the daughter of South Indian superstar Chiranjeevi, got on my nerves. I felt that she could not have chosen a worse way to humiliate her family. Then a couple of days later she was on TV, stating that her family had kept her under house arrest for a year and …
