June 2009 - Posts - Still single in the city

June 2009 - Posts

Girls Evening Out at the T20 Finals

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I have a simple theory about supporting a team when a football or a cricket match is going on: I always root for the best-looking side in the tournament. If it's the full line-up in cricket, then I invariably veer towards New Zealand (Daniel Vettori takes the cherry on the cake), and I am deeply saddened if they happen to make an early exit. This...

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Postcard from Pakistan

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
Maria Waqar, my fussy Pakistani friend is leaving for grad school: she'll either go to the London School of Economics or National University of Singapore -- depending on which place gives her better financial aid. It's a strange feeling when your best friend in a place from home is about to leave... but she's left me with a piece that she...

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How About Going Dutch?

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I've always been confused -- and rather intrigued -- about the issue of settling the bill after a meal or a drink. Unlike Westerners -- who go Dutch, right down to the service charge -- we Indians usually have this thing about letting one person pay. "Let me take this": that's the sentence everyone longs to hear at the end of the eating...

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Ghost Stories

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
Like all ‘sensible' people, my views on ghosts and spirits are very, very ambivalent. I've never personally had a spectral encounter, so I cannot, with great conviction, proclaim there is a domain inhabited by spirits and spooky creatures. But then, I know of a great many friends/relative/acquaintances who swear there is a world of the ‘living...

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