Being the woman taking charge means one is playing an unusual role and there’s ample scope to be misunderstood

I am really liking this. There is a new kind of man up and about and he makes me re-think all my notions about men and relationships. There was of course the spectacular younger man that I had the good fortune to be with for a brief while. And there are my other friends and acquaintances. [...]

It occurs to me that I’m in the final stages of recuperation. Or rather, I’m like someone who was ill for a very long time without knowing it, then hospitalised, recovered, had a relapse and is now watching the last of the scabs fall off, the scars fade away.
Melodramatic, isn’t it? That’s what the decade [...]

A thing for chocolate – hot, sizzling, dark, rich
A fetish for shoes – expensive, gorgeous and uncomfortable
A love of all things khatta: Neembu, Imli, Amla, Kamrak
Sex and the City
Long phone conversations with friends and texting only for mushy SMSes, naughty SMSes, sweet SMSes
Bacardi Breezers, Vodka-with-lime, Red wine, White wine, any wine
Inappropriate crushes (gardeners, colleagues, bosses) at [...]

My new literary obsession is Chick Lit. Helen Fielding, Sophie Kinsella and Marian Keyes keep me in chocolate-box mood while Meera Syal and Advaita Kala add the desi tadka. Why, even fellow-blogger/’I-know-this-girl-friend-acquaintance’ Compulsive Confessor flashes her characteristic grin at me from my bedside bookstack.
I found this rather interesting piece on the internet, describing Chick Lit:
“Chick lit” is [...]

Friend and openly gay writer, Parmesh Shahani in his book Gay Bombay says that being gay isn’t just a sexual preference, it’s a lifestyle.
My sexuality was something that I had compartmentalized as something that was surreptitious and all about the sexual act, not about an identity.
Yes, perhaps. I guess I can’t claim to understand fully [...]

Another new blogging project. My brief – to be the straight voice of a gay desi blog. I’m excited.
I wonder who the readers will be. Will they be gays and lesbians and if so, will they have any interest in what a straight person thinks of homosexuality? Will they be people like me, straight and [...]