I spoke to a friend last night. She said she was going out to dinner. Not family. Not an old friend. Not a classmate or a colleague. Not a ‘marriage prospect’. None of those secure, timetable-managed things. But something quite like…a date!
I had another call at 11:00 pm. She sounded ecstatic. She hasn’t sounded this [...]

Its certified! We is a confirmed flirt-o-holic. Funny though, that while in the real world, the simplest flirting games make us shift uncomfortably from one foot to the other and change the topic, online we scatters fragments of our flighty, flirty personality like its confetti.
We have succeeded in flirting with a friend-woman (as opposed to [...]

Only a woman
Can be both relieved and disgusted
by the fact that she is bleeding.
Not horrified. Or fascinated.
We leave that to to the men.

Men like to draw blood. Women just naturally shed blood. Why would we be afraid of it?
That’s what I hate men most for. For revering something I can’t.

‘Kuch kuch hota hai’ was on TV yesterday. One of the early movies that made Karan Johar into a brand name.

I was in college when I saw this movie. Of course I couldn’t say I liked it…it wasn’t cool to admit to liking this sort of popcorn-n-plastic fare! But the truth was that I watched [...]

Women are beautiful. The fairer sex really is the fairer sex. I know this has been common knowledge for years but the full meaning hit me just today. I was in the ladies compartment of a train…for a change not squeezed into a crowd but with enough space to look around at my co-passangers. Every [...]

(An altered-opinion sequel to Testosterone Kicks)
Dus bahane karke le gaye dil…
Bahana no.1: Sanjay Dutt
Bahana no.2: Abhishek Bachchan
Bahana no.3: Zayed Khan
Bahana no.4: Abhishek Bachchan
Bahana no.5: Pankaj Kapoor….okay, Pankaj Kapoor’s acting
Bahana no.6: Abhishek Bachchan
Bahana no.7: Overpainted heroines mouthing meaningless dialogues (the urge to strangle them goes sooooo well with the dhamaka-kick of the movie!)
Bahana no.8: Abhishek Bachchan
Bahana [...]

The weather is sickening.
Outside the sun is scorching the earth
like something from the kitchens of a very bad cook..dark, smelly, sticky.
The sunlight on my face gives me a headache.
Inside, the fan is whipping a breeze across my face too fast.
Slower it offends my ears with its whirring.
I’m sick, going to throw up.
Food is a revolting [...]

Just lying on my back
And watching thoughts stumble across my mind
I seem to have fallen into a habit of brooding
It starts with one annoying thing…that makes me see red
And I stifle it under the thin plastic blue tarpaulin that keeps out the storm
Disturbingly, it causes a bruise that turns purplish
Bottle-green dots of melancholy waft over [...]