Vainglorious Bashtards

                  
There is no profession that makes sexism more apparent in all its crudity than Indian film industry. I can speak with better familiarity about Tamil filmdom where the heroes and aligned menfolk are vainglorious, and the heroines are but women treated as puppets in their fiefdom.
In the pre internet/MMS days, we had a talkative man who [...]

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The Man at the Airport…

…is an ominous figure.
Anyone who has travelled abroad knows that the wait in the queue, the inching closer to offer your passport and self for scrutiny is an uneasy one. It’s disquieting to be sized by a stony faced bureaucrat in white. He will judge your looks, the country of your origin, scrutinise the [...]

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Rainbow Colours

I met her on the second day at college. We were standing outside the classroom, looking down at the morning bustle of students arriving, excited squeals of friends meeting, and high decibel chatter.
I sensed her watching me and looked up at her. She seemed uncaring of trends and her clear creamy skin and round bespectacled [...]

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Marriage, Anyone?

India’s motor-mouth and brazen item girl Rakhi Sawant will host her own TV show, Rakhi ka Swayamvar very soon. The lady who worked her way up from the ghettos of Mumbai through plastic surgeries, eyeball-grabbing antics, and frolicking dances will go groom-hunting on TV. She will choose in the manner of “Indian tradition” a [...]

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