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Story Dated : Wed,June,19 2013 12:02 hrs IST
A hostel is a place where they make chappatis that can be lobbed at the Taliban to turn their brains into chenna masala. It is where you learn to still your bladder movements until you get a booking for the bathroom. It is the place that conditions...
On Beauty, why Dove has a point
Story Dated : Sun,May,19 2013 16:52 hrs IST
If you haven’t watched the latest Dove ad, it features women who are told to describe themselves. And then a stranger is asked to describe them. A forensic expert draws both descriptions and shows the vast difference in women’s perceptions of...
Back to the future
Story Dated : Sat,April,20 2013 14:04 hrs IST
When I was very young, my mother used to pick out what I was to wear each day and lay it on the bed. I hated it. One of my earliest memories is praying to God that he’d make me an adult fast so I could choose what to wear. When I rifle through old...
Can feminists wear short skirts?
Story Dated : Tue,March,05 2013 14:15 hrs IST
People think being a woman means having no choices in life. Your life is charted out at birth. Perhaps two generations ago, this was true. Women embraced marriage and motherhood at a very young age. Today, women in urban India are educated and...
Love in the time of Google
Story Dated : Wed,February,06 2013 15:53 hrs IST
Picture this: A scruffy lad in yellow bellbottoms leans by his bike. He taps a smouldering cigarette twice, sending ash petals flitting to the ground. He has a rushed, fidgety manner. A group of girls emerge from a dusty corridor. They see him. He...
What goes into making a ruler?
Story Dated : Fri,December,28 2012 15:12 hrs IST
The Guardian’s collected some pithy sayings of 2012 by interesting personalities. One of them, by Mitt Romney, is this: ‘We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.’ Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the...
Are we educating our children properly?
Story Dated : Sat,November,10 2012 21:25 hrs IST
Recently, I went to a party and saw something. A mother was engrossed in a conversation with a group of people. Her son kept pulling at her shirt, asking her something. The mother would keep brushing him off, too caught up in the conversation....
Ad-dicted
Story Dated : Fri,September,28 2012 13:56 hrs IST
I remember a Craze biscuit ad from my childhood. It featured a group of children dancing to a peppy background score while munching on Craze biscuits. I used to love that ad. All the children looked so self-assured and grown-up. I was sure their...
Snapshots of Life
Story Dated : Sat,August,18 2012 10:23 hrs IST
I remember my encounter with Prabuddha Dasgupta. It was nearly three years ago when I was just starting out in entertainment journalism. I had begun to emulate a reassurance which I didn’t always feel while meeting big names in the fashion and...
It's Raining Men...Where Exactly?
Story Dated : Wed,July,25 2012 13:43 hrs IST
There are two types of men in the world: First, the kind that’s firmly enmeshed in your life and for that reason deserves no further mention (for fear of one of them actually reading this post). Second, the more exotic strain that hovers somewhere...
A Note from the Kerala Tourism Board
Story Dated : Tue,June,05 2012 15:54 hrs IST
Welcome, friends, to God’s Own Country. Here, you can sip coconut (plucked by our wiry-legged, bronze-chested Kuttappans and Kochu Thommas) juice or dig into a plate of karimeen pollichathu on the wind-swept deck of a houseboat in Kumarakom. Or you...
An Assault On The Senses
Story Dated : Mon,April,23 2012 11:33 hrs IST
The shop is anonymous and instead of a name, it has a Coca Cola banner with the words ‘Bottle Kholo, London Bholo,’ splashed across the front. It reminds one of the small tea stalls in Malayalam movies, inevitably the site for a crucial plot...
Rite of Passage
Story Dated : Mon,March,19 2012 13:51 hrs IST
It’s known as the ‘Paradise of the South’. Did I find it so? Yes, but not for the reasons that most people did. For someone who belongs to that no-man’s land that’s neither a tourist, a foreigner, a hippie nor a local, Kovalam faces the risk of not...
The Land of ‘Likes’
Story Dated : Fri,February,17 2012 15:11 hrs IST
Facebook users will know what I’m talking about. ‘Liking’ a friend’s status update or photographs is, after all, merely a click away. With the website’s privacy issues and the government demanding that it remove objectionable content relating to...
The Hug-Kiss Dilemma
Story Dated : Fri,January,13 2012 18:23 hrs IST
How to greet people. It’s a dilemma that has plagued me for long. Recently, my brother’s wedding got over and I got to meet hordes of people. While meeting each cousin, uncle or aunt, I wondered how to greet them. What is the proper code...
The Lame Name Game
Story Dated : Fri,December,02 2011 15:13 hrs IST
My cousin just got pregnant and my first question was ‘Have you thought of names for the baby?’Nomenclature of any sort is a tricky business. In the seventh season of the medical drama House M.D, one of the doctors is about to become a father. He...
Bunny Memory
Story Dated : Fri,November,18 2011 17:33 hrs IST
A Chemistry lab assistant who, with a bit of smooth talking, would barter the name of the chemical we were supposed to be identifying. A marble hall called The Parlour where we would sprawl around to watch the latest episode of Mowgli on the...
Story Dated : Wed,May,29 2013 16:50 hrs IST
I’ve always been a critic of self-help books. I used to smirk inwardly when my mother cut out the bottom section of the editorial page of Times of India or stocked up on her annual dose of Robin Sharma. My reasoning was that, I thought I already...
Why blame Beyonce?
Story Dated : Wed,May,15 2013 15:25 hrs IST
If you are Internet savvy, you’ve probably come across this open letter to Michelle Obama by Rakhi Kumar. It is written in the wake of Michelle saying Beyonce is a great role model to her two daughters.“When you endorse a recording artist like...
'A la mode'st
Story Dated : Thu,April,18 2013 16:43 hrs IST
The Oscar season is just over and I can’t help feeling that red carpet fashion has become so boring. It consists of a bunch of women wearing clothes designed with the sole purpose of playing the ‘who’s thinner than whom’ game. So a plume here or a...
How ok is it to copy?
Story Dated : Mon,February,18 2013 20:47 hrs IST
Once upon a time a man stepped out of a bath tub and realized that the water level rose. He suddenly understood the solution to a problem I’m not sure he knew was a problem before. The crazy old bugger cried Eureka, leapt out of the bath tub and ran...
Age and its many paradoxes…
Story Dated : Wed,January,09 2013 10:59 hrs IST
China has passed a new law which makes it mandatory for youngsters to visit the elderly. Should we follow suit? Luckily, it would be easy for me since my paternal grandparents live with me. My grandfather is 91 and maintains the sunniest of...
We Need To Put The Magic Back Into Christmas...
Story Dated : Thu,December,06 2012 16:09 hrs IST
I’m thankful to Enid Blyton for letting me imagine into existence a world of pixies and enchanted forests, of scones slathered with butter and tall glasses of pink lemonade, of dolls that come alive at night and little girls who brush their golden...
Six annoying things
Story Dated : Thu,October,11 2012 16:02 hrs IST
1) Zebra Crossings – Do they serve a purpose really? I will believe it if you tell me you find Barkha Dutt sexy (each to his own, I guess). I can just about believe that Padma Laxmi slept with Salman Rushdie willingly. (Stranger things have...
Call Waiting
Story Dated : Fri,September,07 2012 17:03 hrs IST
Finding that wretched love letter you wrote a crush in sixth grade Valentine’s Day is awkward. Watching a sex scene on television with your parents is awkward. Seeing an old photograph of yourself when you thought you looked ravishing and now, with...
Mind Your Language
Story Dated : Fri,August,03 2012 12:26 hrs IST
One of the earliest lessons I learned is that a ‘Please’ tails a ‘Yes’ and ‘Thank you’ always follows a ‘No.’ If you want to go to the toilet, raise your hand and say ‘Excuse Me.’ The English are nothing if not polite. Even their swear words have a...
On the Road
Story Dated : Wed,June,27 2012 17:48 hrs IST
I started driving recently. Initially, I was gobsmacked by the system of anarchy that seemed to prevail on Indian roads. How does it not lead to an endless series of collisions and Big Bang part 2? I wondered. After almost a month of driving in a...
Hair Scare
Story Dated : Wed,May,23 2012 14:09 hrs IST
I recently saw a Sunsilk advertisement where a girl with perfectly lovely hair complains to a Sunsilk hair expert about hair fall and dry hair. He casts a discerning eye over her hair and proceeds to offer suggestions while viewers with proper hair...
How to train the hubby
Story Dated : Wed,April,04 2012 09:14 hrs IST
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that every husband needs varying amounts of training. The necessity of this was brought home to me by a New York Times columnist called Amy Sutherland who delineates her training techniques in her article called...
It's All About the Wait
Story Dated : Sat,March,03 2012 16:08 hrs IST
Yesterday was my first day at a new job. If you haven't experienced it yourself, I can tell you this: it's all about the wait and the forms. First, you're directed to a worn leather chair in the lobby. After you've finished learning by rote the fine...
Confessions of a Social Phobic
Story Dated : Fri,January,27 2012 15:43 hrs IST
I recently happened to visit an online forum for people with social anxiety. The topics under discussion ranged from what job is best suited to one with this disability to insulting celebrity lookalike comments. The writer complained of being...
God's own foodie
Story Dated : Mon,January,02 2012 20:02 hrs IST
Scratch a Malayali and you’ll get a foodie. It’s said that Malayalis are a peaceful lot. I say take a Malayali away from his puttu and egg curry and you’ll see his true colours. I’m no exception to this rule. I use food to mark milestones in my life...
Not a Sisterhood Anymore
Story Dated : Thu,November,24 2011 18:42 hrs IST
Yes, I do know what colour dress Meg Ryan wore in the final scene of You’ve Got Mail. And yes, I wept buckets when Hugh Grant bared his soul at that iconic press conference in Nottinghill. Do I think of that scene when I attend a press conference...
Lungi: the beginning of the end?
Story Dated : Fri,November,11 2011 14:15 hrs IST
Recently, I was sent the link to a YouTube video called ‘Land of Lungi’ lightly spoofing Keralan culture. I watched it three times before realising a sad fact: the lungi, despite featuring in the title of the song, might be an endangered item in...
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