Having walked this earth for as long as I have, I feel like I have a strut going and maybe even a jog so I like to generalize. And...

We need rebels, we need hippies, we need aunties like me!

Me : How are you? ? How Have you Been? Hellooooo They : I just came back from Mumbai last night/ I was in Turkey and came back 3 weeks...

In Indian mythology, women used to have a room to be angsty in. I won't say women in general, but queens did. They could go weep, cuss,...

As a society, we’re afraid of change, Weren’t we told that once homosexuals enter matrimony, it will be ruined for the man-woman variety?

Forget the gratitude in the bad times, I like to complain when I’m good.

I once heard (on good authority) that orphanages are often quiet places. Babies don’t cry for help nor attention because no one responds...

Regionalism, West Wing, Stephen Colbert, Tolkein, Eartha Kitt, NATO, Elon Musk, James Franco,

One of the things that I was completely unaware of, was the Pulitzer prize for criticism. It hurt! The moment  I heard this news, I was...

My mom is like a Scotch-Brite dish washing scrub pad. She is all spongy and soft on one side but if she flips she possesses this thin...

This is going to be a short read. I recently came upon a tweet where the author wrote that suffering from a loss of smell and taste due...

COVID, Oprah, Desi, Milk, ketchup,

I have on occasion, dreamt of being an agony aunt. How hard can it be? People write anonymously to some magazine/newspaper/website about...

Diana, royal family, queen, Monarch, common wealth, the crown, Trump,

On a bus, crossing the central park on the 92nd street in uptown Manhattan, I am seated next to a lady in a smart skirt suit with the...

Pleonasm and tautology have their own separate abilities, but together they are wasteful and pretentious. Especially in a term I see...

We’re so lucky to be able to stay home during this pandemic. First, that we’re aware that it is a virus and not a curse from the Gods!...

Like everything in life my gardening skills are mediocre at best and pathetic at worst. I hate to grow vegetables because I see it as too...

I live quite an isolated life in the city because I rarely meet people in packs and when I do, they are not obsessed with crooked mouths,...

We’re all married. Even the ones who’ve not tied the knot, said their vows or signed papers with a beloved. We may not have had a wedding...