I CAN SAFELY—and with some amount of pride— say that I belong to one of India’s most emancipated and socio-economically advanced communities. As a Parsi, especially one born and bred in South Bombay (most Indian Parsis live in Bombay, and…
A Little Wit. A Little Wisdom. Lots of India.
May 27th, 2009
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Letter to a Hindu Moral Policeman
You developed your sense of entitlement early – at home, the boys showed up like kings at mealtimes – and the girls served them. Your mother deferred to your father even when she was right. She was loyal and cooked for him even after she found out about his mistress. It is good to be a man – everything is designed with you in mind.
NeoIndian writes a letter to the Hindu Moral Policeman who seems to relish imposing his will on everyone. I doubt any moral police will read and heed the advice but never hurts to put it out there.
April 4th, 2009
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Morons of the Week: The ‘Good’ Taliban
Video Credit: Times Now
Lets be honest and forthright. There is no such thing as a ‘good Taliban.’ And now, due to their latest sickening act in Pakistan, they may just have lost the sanctuary given to them by the ‘West.’
Flogging…
March 20th, 2009
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How Early is Too Early?
AT THE PRESCHOOL that I run (where I also teach), there’s a certain action song we sing that goes like this:
Cook like mummy,
Yum, yum, yum, (repeat thrice)
Let’s have fun together!
Drive like daddy,
Knit like grandma,
Cough like grandpa….
…and by the time we…
February 28th, 2009
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Hi, My Name is Shivani
Woman, 40, married, and wondering,
All I know is that I am happy today. I love my husband. He has been around, tolerating me, for 14 years now. He is a reservoir of patience. And above all, he is the father of my two kids. Touch wood!
But I have my moments of resentment too. My hubby is doing well, my kids are doing well at school, my parents did well by marrying me off to him, but am I doing well enough in life? Now that’s one question I have to grapple alone with myself. Old-timers in the family will tell me that if my hubby is doing well at work and if my kids are doing well at school, then I should be doing well too in life. After all, I live for them, just like I lived for my parents before I got married. In short, I had to take permission then, and I have to take permission even now.[link]
February 23rd, 2009
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Someone is wrong on the internet …
… and that someone is the editorial team at Mint.
Mint carried an editorial today on the Pink Chaddi campaign to name and shame the bunch of thugs who issued a threat to women’s safety. Remember, the threat was a…
February 17th, 2009
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Imran Khan and I
Growing up, eh!
Tazeen is now a cynic par excellence and asks Mr. Khan how can he support independent judiciary and an alternative justice system of jirga court. Aren’t they mutually exclusive? Imran Khan apparently mistook Tazeen for Hamid Mir (although she looks nothing like the infamous Hamid Mir and does not sport a moustache) and says, “Bibi apko kuch naheen pata, main batata hoon.” (bibi, you don’t know anything, let me tell you how it all goes). Tazeen has had enough of Imran Khan and his relentless support for jirga. She intercepts and says, “But Khan Sahib, how can you support a system which institutionally excludes women and poor men from the decision making process?” Imran Khan loses it at that and lashes out at Tazeen. He is red in his face and foaming at the corners of his mouth and says, “Bibi, you stopped me in mid sentence, that’s bad tameezi (bad manners) and I don’t talk to bad tameez (ill mannered) people.[link]
I rather like this blog. It also informs us that Shahrukh Khan wears butt pads. Imagine!
January 22nd, 2009
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Lilavati’s Daughters: 2. Dr. Anandibai Joshi
Dr. Anandibai Joshi was the first Indian woman to get a medical degree — in 1887, and from Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (which is now the Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia). In Lilavati’s Daughters, Joshi’s life story, possibly…
January 20th, 2009
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Lilavati’s Daughters: 1. Prof. Rama Govindarajan
Published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Lilavati’s Daughters is a collection of biographical and autobiographical essays in which 100 Indian women scientists talk about “what brought them to science, what kept their interests alive, and what has helped them…
November 25th, 2008
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Listening Between the Lines
What he says: Ohmigod, look at tech stocks! They are such a bargain!
What it means: He, again, convinced himself that he is a stock market whiz-kid
How to handle it: Don’t panic. First change the password on his E*Trade account. Then make him sit and write “I won’t gamble with stocks” as many times as the dollars he lost in stocks this year.
After plenty of girlfriend-bashing, we now turn our attention to the things that the male species says and what they actually mean, thanks to Twisted DNA great interpretive skills. Oh! And by the way, wives/ girlfriends also don’t actually mean what they say.
