Me-Thanks to inflation, twenty bucks can no longer buy you anything. Friend-It’s enough to shatter dreams. Me -Eh? Friend-In India, you can easily procure a bottle of concentrated acid with it. Me-So? Friend- Haven’t you heard of acid attacks? A way patriarchy confines women to a life of discrimination and marginalization. Spurned lovers and surprisingly even … [Read more...]
LOG-OUT FOR ONCE AND LIVE YOUR REAL LIFE
How many times do you say admiring words to the people whose photos or posts are liked umpteen times by you on Facebook or anywhere else on the internet? For most of us, it would be hardly 1 or 2 times and that too to only a few selected persons. So, what does it mean? In my view, it simply means that, in reality, we don’t even want to praise those persons because if it had … [Read more...]
What’s this fuss about knowing everything?
Do you know the name of the man who first went to outer space? You probably do. The name of the person who invented the flush toilet? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t (I don’t, oh dear). For those of us on the not-very-well-informed side of the fence, there’s going to be janitor’s strike to establish a rule for the education on the excretion unit. And in retaliation, we probably … [Read more...]
Let Loose The Apps of Justice to Protect the Women of India!
The new substitute for a pocket pepper-spray is an app. After sending people to the moon, and sending a message from India to Australia within a few seconds, technology has once again proved it’s better than men, quite literally. By the way, this app sends a message to your friends or family in case you don’t return home on time, or get lost somewhere (it’s called Kitestrings, … [Read more...]
“Home-sour-Home” – My views on demolition of Campa Cola Society!
Where we love is home-home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. - Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes The above quote sounds very rational and sure it is. I would love adding up one of my thoughts about home that initially what you build is a house but with a blend of years of memories and a bucket of emotions, what it becomes is a home. Now plunging out of the merry land of … [Read more...]