This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi …. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
A week or so back, Krishnan and I were watching the program called “Neeya Naana” on Star Vijay. It’s a program where social issues are debated and many times the topics are really interesting. This one was on working women and the challenges they face. There were some workplace practices that showed how much we … Read more
The recent rape that happened in an Uber cab has just gone to prove that your safety is really your concern – man or woman, especially woman. While everyone is targeting the Uber cab service, I just read the T&C of two other cab companies – Meru and Ola and found them just as uncool … Read more
What amazing coincidences are coming to the fore … Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel’s birthday is the day Indira Gandhi died. Acharya Kripalani and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad share birthdays and today happens to be two other similar women celebrating their birthdays !! Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi has been an idol for me ever since I … Read more
Tomorrow is Karva Chauth, the day that North Indian married women keep a fast for the long life of their husbands. God bless them and the it’s great to see the tradition being kept alive … The Mehendi, the dressing up and ofcourse the moon sighting and many modern husbands keep the fast too. Great … Read more
She ruled the hearts as an actress and ruled hearts as a political leader and pretty much ran a one woman party for several years now. Jayalalitha has been convicted today in a disproportionate assets case and will have to spend 4 years in jail and pay Rs. 100 crores in fines. Yes she will … Read more
I saw this video just now, posted on Facebook and just felt unbearably sad. Some of the atrocities that it speaks of are heart wrenching. The gender responsible to bring the human race into existence is subjected to strong, debilitating abuse, killed in the womb and generally treated as objects, dirt. Why do we put … Read more
He was charm personified and really successful, she was young, fresh and beautiful.. Full of life and they did what a man and a woman do when they are in lust – have an affair. Today that man is about to be a grandfather and is all excited about welcoming his grandchild. Today that woman, … Read more
I have always held the belief that men and women place the limits on themselves with limiting beliefs and accepting others vision for their life. This is a little more true for women than men, as society is more forgiving of “different” behavior from men, for example, Draupadi is difficult for the society to accept, … Read more
Last year when we were in Brazil for our MBA classes, my classmate read the news about a five year old girl’s rape … By a neighbour who pushed a candle up her vagina. The child died and I don’t know what happened to the rapist. Yesterday a colleague of mine told me of a … Read more
My mother-in-law came and stayed with us for a couple of weeks in March, just before we moved out of Bangalore and in the twenty four years I have known her, this time I felt she has lost a lot of her vitality. My mom-in-law has had every adversity thrown at her and she just … Read more