March 2009 - Posts - Still single in the city

March 2009 - Posts

Ramblings on a Rainy Day

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I am writing this from inside the taxi -- on the way back to office after dropping my mother to the airport. It's been raining in Dubai for the last couple of days, and it reminds me of India. In Dubai, there are usually brisk, short spells of rain during the winter months. But suddenly (is this global warming and one of its many offshoots?), even...

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PDA, Dubai’s Lajpat Nagar and Good Neighbours

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
Pawandeep, God bless you: you have given me the opening to this week's blog, yet again! Every Sunday, there is a big struggle in my head over what I should be writing on. It is Mother's Day today (or was it yesterday?), but I didn't want to bore everyone with mommy tales third week on the trot. So when Pawandeep asked me in the last blog...

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Super Mom and Supermarkets

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I need a big prize for managing to write this post. My mother, who had earlier threatened that she was coming to Dubai to spend "quality time" with me, wants to be inside a mall at all times. Since she cannot be inside a mall 24x7 (even Dubai has only so many malls), she's alright with being inside a hypermarket or supermarket. I'm...

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Friday the 13th: Mother, do you think they’ll Drop the Bomb?

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I know it's not Friday the 13 th . It's Sunday the 8 th March, and it's Women's Day. I'd almost forgotten, but thanks for alerting me through my last blog. Pawandeep specifically said he looks forward to my post on Women's Day. Very honestly, I hadn't planned one. But here are some random musings, followed by the demystification...

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Singlehood = Freedom, or Marriage = Freedom

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I am going to write a short blog this week, because there are too many things happening this Sunday. Too many people to meet, lots of matters to be sorted out -- but, who knows, maybe all of those will provide fodder for the coming Sunday... Pawandeep had asked me sometime back why I don't do something on the Average Indian Woman (or Girl)... I...

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