Of all the things to talk about, I never thought we’d be having a pep-talk about not feeling bad about being single on Valentine’s Day. Of all the people, I never thought I would be the one giving it to him.
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Nearing the end of dinner as he puts his napkin down, an arm snakes over [...]

I had a pseudo-date, recently. What’s a pseudo-date? Oh, that’s something that looks like a date but isn’t. Why? Because I bought him an ice-cream cone (and was ordered and reminded to blog about it, so here you are, Mr.Pseudo-Date). And yeah, because a conversation such as this was possible…
That girl is hot!
No, she is [...]

One of the sweetest women I know is facing a personal crisis. But she finds that her pain and her fears act as a shining beacon on her secret hopes and desires. And from that emerges some profound spiritual insight as well.
I have been struggling every moment with questions that echo, reflect and get thrown [...]

I’m bored with men and their silly games. I’m tired of women and their wicked wiles.
Someone invent a new sex.
Maybe I could try romancing women and confiding in men instead. That would be like eating a bowlful of tiramisu for dinner and finishing off with a mini-burger for dessert. Then again, with a woman, one [...]

The thing that bothers me is that people confuse virginity with purity and use the first to prove the second. Please, people, let’s get this straight: Virginity is physical, purity is spiritual.
Really now, aren’t we all adult enough (and that being in terms of having adequate knowledge of human anatomy and scientific breakthroughs as well [...]

Conversation with a colleague:
Him:
I think women (at work) come in two types. There are women like you – independent, strong-natured type…you know they aren’t going to burst into tears because you tell them you don’t like their work. Then there’s this other type you have to be careful around because you never know how they’ll [...]

Mayank Shekhar bemoans the plight of the single urban male in Mumbai today in an article that’s interestingly titled ‘Suffering single-it is!’
Everybody loves a single woman: The world donates her affection, attention, drinks, dinner, coffee, Orkut scraps….she gifts them hope. Nobody loves a single man, not even the single man himself, and least of all [...]

I saw this ‘Make your own teddy bear workshop’ and my first thought was “I wish I had someone to bring here…a little someone” and not “I wish they had those when I was a kid”.
See here’s where you go in (irresistible kid-magnet, isn’t it?).

Then you get to pick the skin of the toy you’ll [...]

This I so have to write about, if for nothing else, but as a rejoinder to women who think like this, that there are women like me too!!!!!
SNC opens the morning boasting about his upcoming alumni meet in Goa. PJ Rani cuts in claiming to be his date and then advising him:
You should take IdeaSmith [...]

Delhiwallas hit on you
Mumbai men check you out
Bangalore’s dudes stare in open admiration
Chennai guys ogle
…..and when I smile, the coffee-bar guy gives me a mug full of warm, liquid chocolate to pour as I like into my drink. The men from the office complex adjoining mine turn their heads as I whip past. It all [...]

I never learnt how to be a girlfriend. I don’t like being a girlfriend.
I love being a friend, a buddy-girl, a punching bag, a co-conspirator, a worthy opponent and an ally. But the role of girlfriend just never fit me all that well. Could that be a reason for the way all my relationships have [...]

Cross-posted on IFSHA here.
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What is the oldest stereotype in the world?
The one every single human being on the planet is subjected to. Across countries, continents, cultures, religions and races. Its the first meaningful proclamation made to world about our existance.
“Congratulations, you have a son!”
or
“Its a girl!”
I’ll take off the heavy connotations of joy at a [...]

And I’ve created my first comic!
Thanks to Sensorcaine for giving me the lead (do see her collection too!)

We doesn’t know whether to feel good about being one of the few women on the blogsphere or annoyed in advance at the khee-kheeing and pirouetting that our male counterparts are going to be doing in response.
Why indeed are women being less expressive? After all these years of being described as the chatterboxes, the talking [...]

Taking a cue from an ex- who believed in indulging the pain to make it go away, we have invested in a whole lot of movies on the far chance that we’d need to drown our pain in someone else’s sorrows. Actually it works.
So we watched ‘Bridget Jones’ diary’ last week for the second time [...]

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 [...]

I was a trifle disappointed that this post (lying in my subconscious for over a year and in my drafts box for a few days) got so few comments. Mostly from women….and what they said was surprising. There was one man and what he said was surprising too.
Should I conclude that men are, in general, [...]

Sometimes we are on the same train. I have a ’subject-to-last-minute-change’ schedule. Maybe so does she. Is she a student? Or a working professional?
She dresses like a teenager would, if she had the acquired sense of style that someone at least a decade older would have. Her face is cold, impassive, seemingly indifferent to the [...]

This is going to be a personal post not a fiery commentary on ‘issues’…this blog has gotten to being quite aggressively feminist. Ever since I started writing XXFactor, I seem to have gotten an image of a feminist, which I’ve been hotly protesting. Now see, that is the whole point, isn’t it? Its not about [...]

I finished reading “Bridget Jones’ diary 2- The Edge of Reason”. I could identify with the protagonist. Just like I could identify with Ally McBeal and the characters of Sex and the City. I read an article in the newspaper today, about the status of urban, upwardly mobile, independent single women. That’s the one reading [...]