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Last visited 08-05-2009
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  • Tuesday, August 04, 2009
    Posted at 4:14:00 PM
    A couple of weeks ago I went to watch New York . At the interval, while I was contemplating whether John Abraham was really a terrorist and marvelling at how the director could make even Neil Nitin Mukesh act, I heard a noise which struck me as being odd in that setting. It was a bunch of kids about 8-10 years old, running down the aisle and pestering their parents for popcorn. It was an incongruous sound because it was a midnight show of a U/A movie. I pondered over the fact that these kids would have by then seen in close up a man narrate his.
  • Monday, July 13, 2009
    Posted at 4:01:00 PM
    Is casual cruelty a peculiarly Indian trait? I think it goes back to our feudal system where there was always some caste or community below one’s own, which one could deride and harass. Now, although the caste system has been officially abolished, it appears as though some primal gene is still active in many Indians. It suddenly gets activated, often in public spaces and causes the person to inflict casual, unprovoked cruelty on people or creatures in a vulnerable position. A visit to the Delhi zoo is enough to gather evidence about this shameful.
  • Monday, June 01, 2009
    Posted at 5:03:00 PM
    Few relationships of my life have been more complicated. Fraught with break ups, reunions, misunderstandings, ego tussles and broken promises. The most important man in my life and I are mostly on a relationship roller coaster. He knows I need him more than he needs me. I know I don’t need an agony aunt to tell me that this is an unhealthy equation and I must give him up. But what do you do if you can’t drive beyond Noida and have never faced the legendary Delhi traffic while sitting behind the wheel? Replace him would be an immediate suggestion.
  • Monday, April 13, 2009
    Posted at 5:45:00 PM
    Last Saturday I was taking my 20-month-old son, burning with fever since the previous evening, to the paediatrican. The Saturday before that I had taken him to another paediatrican, and since the fever recurred within a week, we decided to change doctors. In early March I spent an entire week worried about my 7-year-old daughter's severe viral fever. As is the norm nowadays, we performed a battery of tests and I was sick with anxiety before collecting each report. In January, her brother fell ill for a short time... like he had done in December.
  • Friday, April 03, 2009
    Posted at 11:07:00 AM
    A new book called Beside Every Successful Man by Megan Basham has triggered a clash of viewpoints in the West. It is a self-help book targeted at highly educated professional women. It urges them to give it all up to stand beside their husband/partner and make him a successful man. The deliberate word play is noteworthy: “behind” has been replaced with “beside”, as the target readers are not the subservient sisters of past generations, who were content to stay in the wings and ensure that the home was well run. It addresses a constituency that has.
  • Wednesday, March 18, 2009
    Posted at 5:03:00 PM
    Last weekend I introduced my seven-year-old daughter Prakriti to one of childhood's greatest reading pleasures: Enid Blyton's adventure series. I began with the Secret Seven, which is meant for the 7-9 age group. I let sentiment override sense while making the selection. I chose Secret Seven Win Through, which is certainly not the best in the series, but it was the first that I had read when I was in Class 3. The timing, however, is just perfect as, over the past couple of months, Prakriti and her friends in the building society that we.
  • Thursday, March 12, 2009
    Posted at 9:19:00 PM
    If this blog had a name, it would be called Urban Juggle. For that's what negotiating present day urban life is for many like me. A dexterous juggle between being Family Person, Corporate Denizen, Cyber Trawler, Clueless employer of domestic help, Exploited Customer of wily companies.... the roles are myriad and transitions require lightning speed changes of mood and manner. It’s all terribly stressful-and yet, so compelling. That Chinese curse that condemns one to “live in interesting times” seems to have come into effect. Which is why I added.
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