Category: diva di’vine

  • Kaadige kathai

    Or may be I should say Racoon Eyes 🙂 Ragini kaki was the most vibrant of all my aunt’s so was Mala Aunty. Somehow Mala Aunty always preferred the use of “Uncle” and “Aunty” over Kaki and mama as we normally called our maternal uncles and aunt. Ragini Kaki always preferred “snow” over”lactocalamine”. Every time…

  • Trained citizen journalism sites

    Trained citizen journalism sites. For those of us who are into citizen’s journalism, here are some sites. Like Madison common, which launched in March 2006,draws content from three sources. The local publications, that partner by providing story links, the work of students trained in the citizen journalism program at the university of Wisconsin-Madison and citizens…

  • Campus-kid

    I met school friend after long-span of 5 yrs and 10kgs. She looked like she stepped out of one of those film fare magazines picturing Padmini Kolhapure or Poonam Dhillon and I was drapped in my cotton sari, suddenly I felt like a frumpy forty aunt taking her favourite niece out. But my friend squeals…

  • Elephants can remember.

    TOI  had runs and re-runs of women who claimed sexual abuse in retrospect. Or decided to share their disturbed dignity now that they are in a more secure place career wise. This disclosure is on a blogspace and the blog is accessed by TOI, to the whole gamut seems so ridiculous. Okay, the power of…

  • Yoga,Tablet and Me.

    Query from Lenovo–How is your everyday life with a tablet…? responses on facebook.com/lenovo AS FOR ME: I wondered tablet… excuse me… I know I am middle aged, and attached to a hospital either as a doctor or as a patient, but that did not justify this question I reckoned. Before you assume that I am Alice who…

  • Meet, Platinum

    Gold the most common metal used for jewellery in india, silver is second in the lower income market and platinum in the upwardly mobile crowd. Gold as we all know look, beautiful, bright, shiny yellow, and is rated in carats, pure gold is too soft. Other metals are used to strengthen it, in the south…