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  1. Maid in Mumbai

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    / January 14, 2013 / 3 Comments
    Ya devi sarvabhuteshu shaktiroopen samasthita namstasyai, namstasyai, namstasyai namo namah (To the Divine Goddess who resides in all existence in the form of ‘shakti’ We bow to her, we bow to her, continually we bow to her) Well, this post is about the most important person in my life –...

  2. Leh jayenge !

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    / September 2, 2012 /
    Leh jayenge! Leh Gate It looked like it was going to happen after all – the four of us taking off for a family holiday to Ladakh! This might seem like a simple enough task to some families – but for us, it was not. Let me explain. Honestly, in...

  3. For the Love of Bike(s)!

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    / August 23, 2012 /
    Have you seen a white elephant?  No…? Well, if you want to, just trot down to my place, because I have a couple of them right here in my garage. The men of the house look after them, wash them reverently, and occasionally take them out for ceremonial outings. They are...
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  4. Autofocussed

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    / July 27, 2012 / 5 Comments
    I have always held the belief that by and large, auto-rickshaw walas across India are goons, thugs, louts, bullies and a few other unmentionable things which I can’t bring myself to utter in public. But every time I make a trip to Bangalore or thereabouts, this conviction of mine takes...

  5. Touch Me Not

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    / July 9, 2012 /
    The world is divided into two kinds of people – those who love touchscreen phones and those who don’t. Naturally, having been a hopeless technophobe since as long back as I can remember, I belong to the second category. And life is really tough for people like us now, because...

  6. The Gift

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    / July 3, 2012 / 4 Comments
    I want to give Mark Zuckerberg a great big collective hug from all of us prehistoric beings (read as ‘those born before the times of the internet’)… You see, Facebook is giving us a very special gift indeed! How else would I have located my teen-time buddy, with whom I...

  7. Pontifications on Auntification

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    / May 3, 2012 / 5 Comments
    Ok… I have swept this topic under the carpet for long enough now. It is time I outed it. Friends, sisters, countrywomen, it is time to protest against a grave injustice being done to us. I am talking about that serious threat to the well being of urban Indian women...

  8. Of soaps and supervamps

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    / February 7, 2012 / 3 Comments
    My mom is visiting for a couple of months – and there are two main side effects of this. The first is that I find myself on the wrong side of the ‘nagging’ process – I get so relentlessly nagged by her that I forget to nag my own kids....

  9. Gym Vim

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    / January 30, 2012 / 3 Comments
    Recently, I saw an ad recounting how a Complan Child grows much more rapidly than others. It reminded me that I had been in much the same position over the past few months – it had been a period of extremely rapid growth for me. With only one small difference...

  10. The Art of Laziness

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    / January 13, 2012 / 3 Comments
    Consider this scenario. You wake up with the sound of the alarm at 6 am or some such unearthly hour. The feeling inside you is 33.33% frustration, 33.33% anxiety and 33.33% anger against the world in general. You turn the alarm off and then turn over to take a snooze for...

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