“Why are you going to the Queer Azaadi March?” asks a friend. After seeing me drool after SRK, Johnny Depp and Dempsey, she knows I am straight, so it beats her as to why I need to go participate in a cause that’s not mine. I did answer her, but not with a lame line [...]
Filed under: People, opinion, relationships | Tagged: acceptance, homosexuality in india, love, parade, People, queer azaadi, society | 12 Comments »
Gymming has begun again. I want to run the marathon you see. Before I gave my hard earned money and precious time, I wanted to see a few gyms. I have been to a lot of gyms and lots of weightloss strategies have been tried. It wasn’t successful until I found my zone. I enjoyed [...]
Filed under: opinion | Tagged: dream gym, fitness, gym, health, life, Lifestyle, Mickey Mehta, Talwalkar, thoughts, weightloss, work out | 6 Comments »
He is the God of knowledge; he loves food, enjoys music and has a mouse as his ride. Now that’s a total dude God right? Mumbai’s favourite Ganpati temple is undeniably ‘Siddhivinayak’ at Prabhadevi. The temple sees A list celebrities, top brass politicos and a lot more. Every Tuesday, thousands of people line up to [...]
Filed under: People, opinion | Tagged: Angariki Sankashta Chaturthi, Devotion, Ganpati, personal, practical, practicality, religion, thoughts, Worship | 5 Comments »
Some people touch your lives and it just changes. Some people are always around and they mould you with every touch. And then they go away and you realize that they’ll never be gone. They live within you, with the values they gave you and the stories they created with you. It’s Vivek Kaka’s birthday [...]
Filed under: memories, opinion | Tagged: family, love, loved ones, memories, People, personal, thoughts | 4 Comments »
Well what I choose to write about today is something we have all written, read, discussed and felt angst about. I am not shocked about the shameful 42% voter turnout. I am not surprised. But yes, I am angry. I am disappointed that a city that poured out into the roads to light candles in [...]
Filed under: People, opinion | Tagged: 26/11, Being Indian, democracy, Elections 2009, Indian, Indian Elections, low voter turnout, personal, politics, Pride, thoughts | 12 Comments »
I wrote this post out for a website, however, it couldn’t be published there in time. Just wanted to share it…
I owe this post to Jerry Pinto, a well known journalist, poet and a writer. As a professor whose aim was to introduce us to journalism, he asked us to read a couple of books, [...]
Filed under: People, opinion | Tagged: media, opinion, india, rights, duties, Elections 2009, politics, democracy, constitution of India, Preamble, poverty, issues, Indian Elections 2009, Jaago re | 3 Comments »
Girl talk was never this fun! As you already know, we’ve been nominating men for their yumminess factor. So @unitechy, @LimeIce, @spitphyre and @punkpolkadots suggested that we do a virtual slumber party on twitter to talk about men!
What we started as a fun thing to support Yaymen, soon spiraled into a wicked wicked conversation that [...]
Filed under: People, memories, opinion | Tagged: expression, personal, pyjama party, thoughts, twitter, women, wpp, Yaymen | 4 Comments »
I have been a High Street Phoenix loyalist forever. Shopping, eating, timepassing was all done there. And when PVR opened there, despite the high price, I started watching movies there. The fact that it’s a 10 minute drive from my office was cherry on the cake. But not anymore.
I love the environment and my body [...]
Filed under: babble, opinion | Tagged: High Street Phoenix, Lifestyle, PVR Lower Parel, customer service, parking issues, bicycles, lifestyle choices, loyalty, discrimination, customer feedback | 8 Comments »
Ram Leela, NRI returning to the country, exuberant India and all that made me think Delhi 6 was going to be Swades revisited. But the soundtrack enthralled me, Sonam looked awesome, Abhishek seemed to look cute and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra was directing it. In my books, those were good enough reasons to be excited about [...]
Filed under: Films, opinion | Tagged: Films, bollywood, Indian Cinema, Abhishek Bachchan, delhi 6, rakeysh omprakash mehra, sonam kapoor, waheeda rehman, Rang De Basan ti, filmr eview, Chandni chowk | 11 Comments »
Yes, I am a procrastinator and I was convinced I am my country’s worst citizen. Jaagore.com reminded me time and again and yet, I would say ‘next weekend!’
Finally, I managed to get my documents together, ensured I had true copies, photos and set off to the ERO situated at the address mentioned on Jaagore.com to [...]
Filed under: People, babble, opinion | Tagged: democracy, Elections 2009, ERO, fighting, governement, india, indian politics, Jaagore.com, leadership, Patriotism, politics, right to vote, vote | 9 Comments »
