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 !
While some of us were waiting to wail it does seem that two women in their 40’s entered the Sabarimala temple today in the morning with police protection. Am also hearing that they were taken through the back door and everyone was told that they were transgenders. So the commies, Christian-conversion-junkies and other wonderful people … Read more
On Saturday, Nov 24th, I was at the ISB campus attending the 5th reunion of my Pgpmax batch. The school had organised a short panel discussion on women empowerment that I was a part of. During lunch the same day, Rajini and I were discussing this word empowerment and she said its irritating to hear … Read more
When a wife gets slapped around and battered, the world calls it “domestic” violence. The news media all over the world, print, TV, and the myriad forms of news gathering and transmission gives this kind of violence a complete miss. No hotel gets attacked, nobody “known” gets hurt, there is nothing to gain from reporting … Read more
I was introduced to WEF by Venkat Matoory last year. The annual WEF last year was in May and I couldn’t attend as my mother-in-law was unwell and we were in Chennai. This year in Feb, I attended the WEF North East held in Guwahati. I was a speaker in two sessions. The annual WEF … Read more
I have always been fascinated by Morocco …. so when I saw this book on the Kindle store, I was very keen to read it. Am so glad that I did. Its an interesting read and gives a great glimpse into life in the 1800’s for a woman in England and of course in Morocco. … Read more
A few weeks back this atrocious, mind numbing video was posted by India Today. That they allowed it to be posted is in itself terrible and getting 630 likes on Twitter is seriously terrible. Wearing a sari to your office is one hell of an uphill climb This utterly stupid video shows a couple of … Read more
The last time I had done the Surya Namaskar was on September 7th 2016, With my upper arms in pain, I had stopped doing Yoga last year. I did just 10 Surya Namaskars in our hotel room at Luang Prabang, Laos to show solidarity with my dear friend Anu and her son Sid who were … Read more
Last week has been a week of elation for Indian women… First an unknown woman called Shayara Banu stood her ground against all social pressures and asked the Supreme Court for justice. The Supreme Court did do justice by giving the verdict against instant triple talaq. This was a victory for women in terms of … Read more
Yesterday was a watershed moment for women in India and a fascinating day to understand a patriarchal world. If any woman out there thinks it’s her world … sista, you are so wrong. This world is ruled by men and it will be many decades before that world order is given “Talaq” to. I am … Read more
Dear Stacy, I completed reading your book a week back… and I had several emotions running through my heart. The first one was of an overwhelming desire to give you a tight hug and say “you are so beautiful”. We have a saying in my mother tongue Tamil that “The beauty of your heart will … Read more