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The Bachelor
*** The bachelor’s bachelor party was over. To be honest, it was quite lame as bachelor parties go. In fact, it was quite lame by the standards of any party. All that they had done was get drunk and...
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The Goldsmith
*** The goldsmith was playing his favourite game. Guessing who his customer was from the order that he had placed. This one, he said to himself, was middle-class. He had wanted something showy and...
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The Girl Who Walked Out
*** I read this post on Shail’s blog and watched the video of the incident here. For those who don’t understand Malayalam, this was a talk delivered by a man who calls himself a ‘one-man army’ for...
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Love. Not.
*** My Facebook timeline frequently brings up stories of Acid Attack victims – pictures of women with pretty faces juxtaposed with pictures of their later, disfigured selves. Nose dissolved, eyes...
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The Neo Maami
*** There is a new breed of maami in town. The old breed of maami still exists in plentiful numbers but the neo maami is rarely identified as a maami and therefore escapes observation. Now who is a...
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Have a Good Time in India, Sister
*** I was in Chennai for a week, catching up with friends and family. I wasn’t online much as a result but the little time I did spend surfing, I read Rose Chasm’s account of sexual violence in India...
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The Pandas are Dying
__ When I went for my first ultrasound, I had to sign a declaration that I had no interest in knowing the gender of my child. The softboard in the waiting room had clippings on female feticide and the...
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The General and the Gent
*** I was reading this post by IHM and I was thinking of an incident that happened a few years ago. I was traveling from Madurai to Chennai on an overnight bus. There was a big traffic jam on the way...
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Tejaswee Rao Blogging Awards
*** I’m back just so I can boast a little. The following posts of mine have won the Tejaswee Rao Blogging Awards instituted by the won-and-wonly and most wonderful IHM. Sleeping with the Enemy in the...
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The Fat Lady
*** The fat lady was told that she was beautiful. It happened all of a sudden. Till yesterday, she had been convinced by everyone around her (including the fat lady in the mirror) that she was anything...
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