Category: Us people
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Bye-Bye Binary
“Clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl” ― Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet November is the month of transgender awareness and education and well as celebrating the gender identity it is different from the assigned sex, this is independent of sexual…
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Culture in the Supermarket
The terrors of the future will not come from the drab repressions of an encroaching bureaucracy, but from the neon lights of a thousand supermarkets, the sounds of a million automobile accidents and from the public cremation of the dead astronauts as they return to earth.” ― Christopher Riche Evans, Mind In Chains This was the opinion…
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The Salesman
Hope Ira Hayes will excuse me for borrowing her title. One of the most irritating issues for me, is the telecaller of illegal status, mumbling in Hindi! The absolute height was the oriflame office from Bangalore, the customer care person talks to me in hindi and demands that I reply since it is rajyabhasha, of…
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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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Edappally Church Kochi
We drove down from Kothamangala to Edappally, the drive was beautiful, the coconut palms and beautiful houses with their lovingly tended garden, so much so I plan to make a a trip just for the garden houses of Kochi and even Trivandrum. Those houses triggered the images of an ideal house which I only see…
