Category: diva di’vine

  • Mothers On The Mom

    Mothers On The Mom

    It’s Friday so breakfast is with mom, over telephone of course. My mom is commenting on the new advertisement of some refrigerator, the tag line is,”maa hoon” this has made her angry. Amma’s stand is very clear, she says the advertisements work on  subconscious, kitchen mom is incharge, so much so women have become territorial…

  • The Toykin

    The Toykin

    The terrible toy eating Toykin is here. Ten pairs of green fleet, Crawling down the Fleet Street. Eyes like a cluster of mustard seeds Tails with shiny crystal beads. Tip toeing, sneaking and peaking. Toykins comes from Toyland, It’s the strewn toys he cannot stand, To the forgotten toys he lends a hand. Quick, let’s…

  • Revisiting Nagananda

    Revisiting Nagananda

    Long ago when I was still active on Sulekha.com, I was to choreograph for the play Nagananda; I put my thoughts down and created a blog.  After I published the blog, many of my fellow bloggers gave me their comments and inputs it was amazing. That was the time I discovered the power of blogging…

  • One Month to Reclaiming Your house from CHAOS

    One Month to Reclaiming Your house from CHAOS

    If you suffer from CHAOS that is can’t have anyone over syndrome, like I did step in and see if my experience helps. Amma got into the car her luggage in the boot, while she and I sat comfortably behind. Ganesh is a safe driver; I do not need to worry about the road. “How…

  • Healing the Mother on Mother’s day

    Healing the Mother on Mother’s day

    Its mother’s day. What can I gift my mother for mother’s day. We have been fed with amazing stories of mothers, Kunti, Jijabhai’s and Kaikeyi’s. From our tradition. Coming to independent India we have the all we have that lady I forget her name, the abused sacrificing doormat mother. I think her name was Sulochana…

  • Veiled words

    Veiled words

    Its the world Hijaab day. How and why and what about it is here in a blog I wrote last year. But over the year here are two interesting point of views that i came across. “What is it about Islam, I thought, that can make a woman so strong that she no longer strives…