Tag: vitriolic
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Taming the Shrew…
De-fanging the Goddess, Its woman’s day and the day begins with a whole hoard of simpering celebrate womanhood message, which is not only annoying it is demeaning and a colossal lie. Starting from Sita, Valmiki’s Sita is not very aggressive, but she is assertive, but by the time it came to Tulasidas, who has displaced…
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Negotiating Travel Trials.
Last year September 18th we were travelling to Trivandrum, from Mangalore. Everyone in that train seems to travelling towards Trivandrum to appear the PG entrance exam in various streams. The only missing streams were medicine, dental and engineering. This year it was Jamnagar. It is my first visit to the state of Gujarat. We enter…
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fashion for Plus size and Age
The Queen of England has turned ninety. Can you imagine her getting ready for a ball? The designer comes, flips open the lap-top, while the queen peers with her, the image consultant in tow, “Summer wear” X—clothes emerged. “Formal wear” the catalogue now becomes X-a “Occasion specific” (x-a)-b “Age appropriate”{(x-a)-b}-c And the exact dress…
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Making a difference…
Khoobh Ladi mardhani woh toh Jhansi waali Rani thi, Well here we are talking about Filmwallah Rani hai, The promo says”meet Shivani Shivaji Roy tough times were made for her. She fought. Against the odd, against the tide. She made a difference. She fought like every woman should. She made every war personal. That’s why…
