Category: Us people
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A Room Ay One’s Own
Today is A Room of One’s Own Day it was quite ridiculous I thought if we are talking about non-communication, sectarian and this is making it worse. But somewhere at the back of my mind a whisper emerged, remember Virginia Wolfe, and a Room of one’s own? “my marriage is bad, I need a place…
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Pravasi Divas
To me Pravasi always meant traveler So ideally Pravasi Divas should be about Tourists, or if we are talking Indian here, it should be about the travelling Indian, well close enough, Pravasi Divas is about the migrant Indian, who has either given up or on the verge of giving up his/her Indian Citizenship. Oh! he/she…
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Walking into the sunset
Listen well while I tell you a story Of a boy and girl in the spring When the first flowers bloom into glory Every bird begins to sing… I am talking of the eighties, the baby boomers, girls taking up careers was accepted in the middle class families, and when I say careers, I mean…
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Of Slump and Trump
I am not a very political aware person, neither do I have intelligence to understand anything beyond housekeeping nor do I have the interest in doing so. Yet when I hear MrD and my daughters argue about and express eloquently the scenario it strikes to me, that we are forgetting a huge issue. Jimmy Kimmel…
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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…
