1. Why do men think their personal plumbing devices will shrivel up and fall off if ever they wear pink / choose to watch romantic movies or read romantic books / cry / acknowledge that they love babies and cuddly animals / acknowledge that they enjoy shopping / watch soap operas / acknowledge that they dislike sports / earn less than their spouse or girlfriend / hold their alcohol less well than a woman / ask for directions / transgress in any way, however minor, from the widely-held but so very narrow-minded code of masculinity? Read more
Do you remember that January day when employees of the oil companies struck work and there was no fuel available for buses and cars?
I made it to the office with no great difficulty that day, but I wondered how long the strike would continue and what would happen if it wasn’t broken by that evening. Read more
One of the fallouts of my Kenya trip is that I watch more TV than before. More TV = more Discovery Channel, more Animal Planet and more National Geographic. These were always my channels of choice anyway, together with Discovery Travel and Living, but in the last year or so, I’d tended to switch on the TV only for the news. Now, I’m a semi couch potato again - and loving every second of it. Read more
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