I never really gave it a thought before. But now that I have, it strikes me that I know a lot of people who’re a little, well, different...

If you’ve been watching this space for a while (which I doubt, but nevertheless), you might be wondering by now if I have some kind of...

In the light of the inexplicable success of Microsoft, we’re changing the text a bit. It’ll now read ‘The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth’....

It was the best of the times. It was the worst of times. But it wasn’t the tale of two cities – just of one. A city within a city. Like a...

Twenty-five years old. Twenty-five years young. A third of my life gone by and so much left to do. I feel like Phoebe when she hit 30. So...

Every Maharashtrian has come across one or more of these gentlemen in their lifetime. Baba, Dada, Nana, Anna, Appa & Bal. Terms that take...

This is how we do it. We wake up early even when it’s a holiday. We bathe and get dressed in festive finery. We get our children to do it...

This one is for the nice girls. Nice girls who will always remain ‘a good friend’. Nice girls who are ‘just one of the guys’. Nice girls...

Stumbled upon this article on the net. Will write a rejoinder for Nice Girls one of these days. Promise. Ode to the Nice Guys This rant...

I’ve walked down a certain part of Bombay, fervently hoping that the boy besides me will like me back. I’ve sat there, years later,...

Romantic comedies are works of fiction. Romantic tragedies are works of art.

Dear Prospective Bridegroom, Hi. I’m a fun-loving, vivacious, young woman whose parents think it’s about time they married her off. I...

Their hair never feels like cotton candy, even if they’re camping in the middle of a rainforest People don’t shove pencils in their hair...

It’s been 48 hours. Bombay was rocked by bomb blasts, as the newspapers have so predictably put it. Again. And of course, as after every...

About a year ago, I was studying at a reputed media institute in Pune. As a class, we were a mix of people from all over India, and even...

It finally happened. More-the-Marine-Drive-rapist/cop got 12 years. Which is what, 5 years less than the age of his victim? Some might...

Q. How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb? A. That’s not funny. Everyday, everywhere, women are accused of “not having a...

Dentists should come with labels. Somewhere in that mass of letters that follow their names, should be stated clearly what kind of a...

Was going through an old, old issue of GQ (yes, girls read it too), and came across some pretty interesting articles. One about...