Monthly Archives: January 2009

Fiction Fragment: Phonecalls and Weekends

Posted on January 30, 2009 by

She is fantastic at coming up with excuses. It’s how she survived. So over the years she let all her friends know that she hated being disturbed over the weekend. That she switched off her phone because it helped her … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Fiction | 19 Comments

Dating A Banker? Anonymous?

Posted on January 29, 2009 by

This is just fantastic. Dabagirls.com or Dating A Banker Anonymous Girls. More at the NY Times. Given the recession, gloomy financial forecasts, tight purse strings, disappearing purses, pink slips, dirty linen and all of that – this is pop-ethnography at … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Funny, Marketplace and All Things Current | 7 Comments

Dear so-and-so

Posted on January 28, 2009 by

Dear Heavily Pregnant Woman On Bus, That you choose to travel on a crowded bus some five hours before your water is going to break is your issue to deal with. You can use it to blackmail your partner/ lover/ … Continue reading →

Posted in Rants and Rambles | 21 Comments

Poem: Like the Ganga

Posted on January 26, 2009 by

I look at you, you strange man, Smiling, laughing, enveloping all. Like the Ganga in Haridwar. You meander through the city, Slothful, large, mourning in time, for those who die and burn In Benaras, by the river ghat. Muddy, filthy, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Fiction | 2 Comments

Lindbergh

Posted on January 24, 2009 by

How appropriate it is that a pioneering aviator should write these fantastic words “Him that I love, I wish to be free — even from me.” Incredible thought. But this comes from someone who wrote this as well – “Don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Borrowed Words | 11 Comments

Poem: A quick love – 2

Posted on January 22, 2009 by

I must have kissed you. You must have breathed. Swift and sharp. Either the breath. (Or something else) Your spectacles or mine were bound to break. So we took them off. The tragedy Kissing you with them on, made them … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Fiction | 5 Comments

WTF: Names, permissions and husbands

Posted on January 22, 2009 by

Reading news can probably replace a weight management program. This for instance is enough to make me want to vomit. Girls who become part of a new family after marriage must assume their new surname and all the responsibilities that … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, wtf | 11 Comments