Category: Us people

  • Meeting the Ms~Chief

    When  blog adda invited me to join the Sheroes summit, I was curious. Hyderabad,  or Bangalore seemed the obvious choices.  I wanted to be surprised so I did not bother too much about researching the event. I entered a roomful of women, who were basically from marketing and technology, and somewhere along the line, trying…

  • The Autorickshaw.

    I am at Bangalore for the “Sheroes summit.” Enroute from JPnagar to Brigade road, I was to pick up an auto. Last month when I was here, the auto drivers were relieved that cargo trucks were banned from 8am -8pm. Well I did see them around. This time round the Banglore police apparently has come…

  • Will you not shave– for a month?

    Gillette is running a contest, with the tag “Will you shave?” being a woman, I say no, but this the era of equality, and so Gillette offers an alternate. That we could write a blog post about the men in my life on the following theme, An instant when stubble came in the way of…

  • Community

    As I was doing landmark curriculum for living, one thing that we did at the last stage was going into the community. We are so caught up in our personal lives that we forget that we have an obligation to be responsible members of our communities.  There are people for whom expressing this responsibility is…

  • COMMUNITY KITCHEN.

    When we were kids, it was quite acceptable for kids from the villages to attend the town school; those who had relatives in town went to their house for lunch. Then there were houses that took on “vaarada oota” that is families would take on feeding couple of school going kids once a week. The…

  • Trail Of Swach Bharat

    It was two in the afternoon, and Karthik called from Indiblogger, would I be interested in being part of the Swach Bharat Bus, an NDTV endeavour along with dettol. I was all set to no, when my daughters said, go mama so off I went like a mongoose who has to know. I did wonder…