Category: diva di’vine
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No Girl Left Behind
Today is the international girl child day, I am looking back, when we grew up gender was never an issue, so to me lot of this stuff that media throws up is strange, yet last year a fellow blogger had put in a question, about girls changing name, I found it idiotic, I still do.…
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Down the Memory lane.
We are busy planning for tomorrows Ramleela it is a student production and at the break, Mrs.Padmashree Josalkar and I were discussing our growing up, Padmashree is from the famous Gubbi theatre, she was talking of how the kids of the family would step in small roles, and as little kids they would forget that…
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Beauty Academy
About 15yrs back I decided to write for a Goan magazine, the editor, looked at me I have always been an woman of substance, sari clad, a neat chignon at my nape, not to mention the nose ring and the bindi, she was quite skeptic until I opened my mouth. She did wonder if I…
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Shopping-Wise
Yup, I am talking economy of emotions, finance, and a feeling of empowerment. I am just recuperating from listening to a whining session of how things are expensive, how her then separated now deceased husband has left her stranded, honestly I find it difficult to be considerate here, if your bank balance is 1000/- you…
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To Be Noticed Is To Be Loved.
To Be Noticed Is To Be Loved. I grew up in the eighties, so we painstakingly cut articles from papers and filed them further references, particularly the embroidery design recipes, not to mention make up tips and how to buy inners. When I discovered Pinterest it was just that for me, a virtual pin board…
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Women Journalists of Kashmir.
Women Journalists of Kashmir. Sameer Yasir is a favourite writer of mine, and I like the way he thinks, this time round he shared the emerging women journalists of Kashmir. Here were some things that struck a chord. Emerging young women of Kashmir, something has changed in the valley, women are opting to be journalist…
