Yesterday, I watched J. Edgar at a downtown multiplex. The performances were incredible, the casting superb, the direction Clint...

Ok, hypothesis time. Say you’re dating someone. Your partner is very important to you and you really want to make it work. So you...

After a serious conversation with Rook, I have realised something terrible about myself. I suck at secrets. Not others’ secrets – those I...

Back in school, I didn’t run fast enough, look good enough or act cool enough to be popular. I got picked on too. A lot. And in the...

Around this time last year, I was swinging wildly between reasonable composure and all-out insanity. I was going to get married, see, and...

It’s that time of the year again when everyone nudges everyone else and goes, “It’s that time of the year again.” December is here, guys,...

Today’s Mumbai Mirror had a front page headline that read ‘Thappad and its Goonj’. I don’t know about the rest of you, but it made me...

When you put a lot of yourself in a relationship, no matter how long its shelf-life is – a couple of months, a couple of years, whatever...

It’s a terrible thing, I know, There’s really no excuse, I should’ve tried harder not to show This thing that I’m feeling. It was so long...

So there was this time when I mocked the very idea of decaf. What’s the point, I wondered, of coffee that doesn’t keep you awake? It’s...

By a show of hands, fellow copywriters, tell me, how many times has it happened to you? You write a headline, a few lines of copy or a...

There are times when it’s appropriate to hug and there are people who’re appropriate to hug. You get good news from someone, you feel a...

Men, I’ll say this again: you guys have it easy. In school, in college, even in offices, male bullies stand up and practically announce...

It's finally here. My 30th birthday. But I’m not going to tear my hair out and refuse to come out from under the bed. I turned thirty...

I’ve been reading a lot lately. After months of re-reading Terry Pratchett, I’ve let some new authors into my life. And the effect, it...

I was down with the flu since Sunday and had decided to give my body one more day of getting properly well. So I was at home when Rook...

Ages ago, as part of reference reading for my feminist literature paper (yes, yes, it’s true, move on) I’d read an article about a...

I miss email. This is a dreadful sign of the times, I suppose, where we’ve gone from mourning the loss of letters to that of email. But...

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, then you know that till about two years ago, I was quite definitively single. This meant...

Do you ever wonder if we’re doomed to be crushed by the weight of our expectations? What we expect from ourselves, I mean. As far as I...