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- Fiction: Little Lizard
She pushed down the insect repellent knob and poison showered on the gecko. The reptile scuttled across the floor and...
- Time Passing Me By
Couple of days ago we found our old honeymoon snaps. Next year, come April, it will be ten years to...
- Gifts Men Should Not Give Women
I'm not urging men not to splurge on their women. Just don't spend your money buying "things."
- Book Review: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The book guides you towards the way to cross over your sadness, your sorrows, your loneliness
- Imperfection is Bliss
Do you know he masturbates? My father alleged, referring to my son.
- I Wish I Was Beaten Black And Blue
Ma, I wish I was beaten black and blue. For a hurt is never an offence for you
- Sense And Sensibility _ Are We Losing It?It is high time we realize that we are not differentiated by our religion, language, political boundary, faith but are united by the single thread
- Bhai - Brother Dearest
The first thing I asked when I saw him was, Maa is bhai a boy or a girl?
- 10 Things I Hate About You
These are plain facts about my daily life and how someone annoys me to death.
- A Culture of ObligationsI’ve become increasingly impatient with, and resentful of, anything that has a whiff of an obligation to it.
- Conflict Resolution for Muslims: A Practical Formula on the Chinese Theory of Mao-Dun
Conflicts are, in essence, survival skills.
- Poem: The Impact
As the mind embraces itself In those old avenues of music,
- Movie Review: Amen
AMEN touched on internet hookups, rape, incest, child abuse, trust issues and love, in addition to homosexuality.
- Falling in Love
I wanted her to see how one could fall in love.
- All is not Well at AoL
These flamboyant gurus are not religious messiahs but entrepreneurs with uncanny business acumen.
- Have a Sweet After-life, Viveka!
A very Gay Goodbye to a "courageous" ex-model
- The Feminist Hangover
Who’s going to rescue the world now that Superwoman has ousted Superman and killed the collaboration?
- Fiction: The Morning After
Survival first is the metropolitan mantra.
- Pleading "Not Guilty"I often joke that the only trips I take are the Guilt Trips that the states of being a mother, daughter, wife, and friend induce.
- Fiction: The Park
A park separates them.
- Maturity Is An Age Thing
You can put a kid on the fast track but you can't make him an adult before his time.
- The World Of Straight & Gay-Friendly
Should homosexuality be a deal-breaker in a straight relationship?
- What To Do When A Friend 'Comes Out'
Each one is a sweet memory, a verbal token that a friend trusted me and shared something deeply personal.
- Femmes Will Be Fatal
The man gets back home after a long day. The woman opens the door, sizes him up and gives a wicked grin.
- The Green Mile Was Not An Illusion
I felt a little easier about parting with a little piece of my heart, my Illusions, after that. The book that he gave me was
- Unconditional Love
Apuchi taught me that the connect between Gen Ex and the Gen Next is pure and pristine – a connect that the ‘generation-in-between’ can rarely
- Can This Rat Race be Halted?
Let’s not get caught up in the same mindless rat race of smaller, better, faster, richer and smarter.
- Fiction: I Am Jill's Unfulfilled Desire
Maybe they had both grown older, more able to accept things as they were, less inclined to hide away.
- Pint-Sized Shysters
People don't wake up one fine day and decide they will be obnoxious.
- The End of Arranged Marriages?
Arranged marriages are like trying to find a job to satisfy your basic needs.
- Khushboo and Odor
The crux of the issue is not morality, but freedom of speech
- Photography Times: Married
Here’s to the Bharathiya Naari – an epitome of Indian tradition.
- Should Marriage be Abolished?
Should family be replaced by Commune?
- Does Marriage Destroy Friendship?For marital friendship to be successful, friendship needs to go beyond the concept of conditional love.
- Male Dominance and Historical Wrongs done to Women
Should men be apologetic and live life feeling guilty and defensive?
- Whenever a sparrow flew, Poems of Gwalior
whenever a sparrow flew away whenever another day arrived.
- Fiction: Bitter Coffee
She preferred espresso shots but he couldn't stand their acrid taste.
- Ten Dating Don'ts For Men
Animals do it, insects do it and human men do it too. Only don’t go on and on about it.
- Satire: A Reasonable Dog
'You ought to be ashamed of yourself", said Nawab, nibbling away at the bag of chips.
- Twitter Fiction: Twocial Etiquette
“Social boo-boo, telling someone you don’t follow them on Twitter.”
- Every Place is Kansas Now, Tiger
Dorothy, it looks like every place is Kansas now.
- One Day, This Too Will Pass
Memories remain and then they too fade away.
- Homosexuality Versus Violation of PrivacyWhen I read about this case, I hoped that the story would be about how AMU stood by Dr.Siras and how police immediately were looking
- Homosexuality - Are Heterosexuals Right In Being Righteous?
My words usually get lost in the outrage I feel when I see people being so intolerant about something that doesn't even affect them
- Twitter Fiction: Equal Sins
“The instant generation….Instant food, instant love.”
- Love Is In The Air...
If I leave out someone who really matters, I will be met with iciest of glares for the rest of the year.
- Book Review: Victoria And Abdul
To be fair to the Queen as well, her love for Abdul Karim was that of a mother and her childlike dependence on him was
- Marital Bliss - Happily Ever After?
From Gangtok to Ooty, Kanyakumari to Kalimpong , there was no escaping them.
- The White Male Effect
White males are less risk averse than others, that has implications on all of us
- Casual Racism in Advertising
Skin lightening creams are nothing but a thin manifestation of racism.
- Book Review: What Men Think About Sex - Guilt-Reading
I hate it when writers pull stunts like that, making a book sound like something else in its title.
- Book Review: Sepia Leaves by Amandeep Sandhu
An insightful read into a child's mind...
- Where Does "Control" Figure in Your Parenting Style?
When I first became a parent, I thought I could control all aspects of bringing up my child.
- Nawwab and I: Inconsequential
t: Full freezer and empty bowls. N: The eternal tussle between the haves and the have-nots
- Should The Girl Ask The Guy Out?
Being the woman taking charge means one is playing an unusual role and there’s ample scope to be misunderstood
- The (Sur)real World of Indian Television
Ranging from bizarre to downright pathetic, the ideology behind most of whats on the idiot box nowadays escapes me.
- Poem: Through The Spider's Web
In the bars of Havana, let’s sit down together Let’s stumble upon conversation of new dimensions
- That Coming of Age ThingIs it all it's cut out to be?
- Twitter and Relationships
All about relationships in twitter...
- A Moral Dilemma: Being Politically Correct & Not A Tease
Considering that we don’t have common friends or interests, am I not willing to meet her only to prove that I’m open-minded about homosexuality?
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