We had spent a nice Saturday at the market place – shopping, eating out, planning a restaurant lunch for hubby’s friends who had clamored enough for a wedding treat, and we had taken our week-old i10 for its first visit to the main market hub in our city.
We returned home tired but I was utterly [...]
We talk about female liberation, equality and education. There are organizations, people (both men and women) fighting and striving to give women respect with security and independent sustenance. In a previous post, Haunted by a Woman, I highlighted with a real-life example, the need for women to be able to stand up for themselves when [...]
All kinds of people make this world, but there are two of a certain species that cause the greatest flurry in their lives and the lives of others. The first category I would call the “Glasshouse Dwellers” and the second species I would call the “Rooftop Dwellers”.
The Glasshouse Dwellers or GHD are primarily self-sustained, independent [...]
Yes, I am back with more matrimonial settlement issues. Now this is one issue that my mom had warned me about - the striking of the perfect culinary chord between an herbivore and a carnivore. Hubby is a vegetarian (he eats egg – thank God for small mercies); I am a hardcore carnivore.
In the good [...]
I have often mulled upon the career progression for technical communicators. A technical communicator can always choose to write, review and publish through his/her professional life but there is significant risk of stagnation, because of three reasons:
• In the same project/organization or domain the documentation will soon become robust and the documentation repository will only [...]
Literally and metaphorically …
Literally, because the movie rambled on and on for three hours and eternity.
Metaphorically, because the movie-makers asserted that the love-influence of the Jodha impacted Muhgal politics for posterity.
Fact, or fiction, true love or political game, the first concern that the movie invoked in me was not regarding the historical sources or [...]
Working in the IT industry is always fraught with the danger that there may be some new technology, new tool, and new terminology just around the corner, and you are the only one who is living in the “Dark Ages” and not aware of the latest hum-word! Well, I was struck with this “I-am-outdated” phobia [...]
An interesting article on www.rediff.com Get Ahead section caught my eye - Want a work-from-home job? As a working woman I have always been interested in keeping my eye open for opportunities that can help me earn my monthly visit to the beauty-parlor, and pay for my massive shoe-purchase fetish, even when I am on [...]
Human beings have developed the concept of milestones – to keep track, to reminiscence, to celebrate, to mourn, to repair, to learn, to evolve, and mostly just for the heck of it. I have also decided to document the key milestones in the First Quarter of the First Nuptial Year of OUR life.
1. After years [...]
For the first time in my life, I have fallen in love – with a canine.
A tiny bundle of abundant energy with a staggering fox-trot, I saw this pocket-dog at a local pet shop. Hubby and I had walked into the pet shop to catch a glimpse of fish in the aquarium. I suddenly saw [...]
I am emotional, passionate and artistic and chubby. I was empowered with this self-knowledge after reading Cheiro’s Language of the Hand. My palm has a red, full-fleshy, dome-like Venus mount which strongly asserts my emotional and passionate (read, romantic) side. I have a broad soft palm, and long fingers with conical tips, which means I [...]
Marriage comes with its own set of “tackle-it-right-now” issues. From creatively planning the stuffing in the breakfast parathas to cruelly ignoring the heap of washed clothes begging to be ironed or stashed away; I am wrestling well with time-constraints and multiferous activities in my life. The one front that I could not tackle well for quite [...]
I have been having recurrent nightmares about a woman. A woman’s plight has petrified me and made deep inroads into my psyche. I feel helpless – not because I cannot protect myself from the nightmares, but because I cannot do anything for her. This woman revealed to me a fold of our tattering social fabric, [...]