Karan Johar & Rakhi Sawant Should Make a Baby

I hereby take back all my unkind thoughts about Karan Johar. Any man with the sheer genius to invite Rakhi Sawant on to his great big wet smooch on the butt of Indian celebritydom of a show (a.k.a. Koffee with Karan) deserves my vote. Forget Amitabh Bachchan, KJo for President, I say! The man has [...]

Maelstrom

The first time he hit me, I refused to believe it. My body felt it: my cheek stung, the sound reverberated around the room, for one slight second I could swear I saw double. My eyes took in his contorted face leaning into mine as he breathed heavily. But my brain said it was all [...]

Sanjaya: The Hair Has Left the Show

Of all the people made happy by Sanjaya Malakar’s exit from American Idol – and yes, I’m looking at you and your big fat grin, Simon Cowell – the happiest is, I think, Sanjaya himself. If he isn’t, then he should be.
I’ve said for a while now that the show was sapping whatever talent he [...]

Love Affair

“Hmm,” she sighed.
“What’re you thinking?”
In a little while they would get up and go their separate ways but for this one instant in time, they were together and for now that was all that mattered. His big hands, slightly rough and very warm, gently stroked her smooth back as she rubbed her cheek against [...]

Bloodshed at Virginia Tech

As news began trickling in about the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus yesterday morning, I was most shocked not by the tragedy itself but by the fact that I cared so little about it.
I’m not comfortable about how used I have become to violent death. Yesterday I was talking to my friend, who lived [...]

Alistair Maclean’s The Last Frontier

The novels of Alistair Maclean are some of the best works of popular fiction written in the last century. They include books that went on to inspire Hollywood classics such as The Guns of Navarone (Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn), Where Eagles Dare (Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood), and Ice Station Zebra (Rock Hudson). One [...]

Feminist Update - II

Tagged! I hope people have been keeping up with this feminism tag because there’s some great writing involved here. The latest:
At Blogpourri, Sujatha writes about her grand-aunt, married at the age of seven to a 42 year old man who promptly abandoned her. She went on to live a life that so many women today [...]

Hurling Stones at Liz Hurley

A World-class three-ringed circus would have been a bit of a dud, when compared to the Liz Hurley Wedding Saga. First, she got her lot linked with ‘well-known’ Indian businessman Arun Nayar. Well-known to who? Other than Liz and his parents, I don’t think many people had even heard of this chap. Then she decided [...]

Turn of the Bookworm

Rebellion is a poor excuse to deny oneself pleasure but that’s the only thing I can come up with when I look at the list of books I ought to have read but haven’t.
I should explain that my mother is a lady with definite literary tastes that she has sought to pass on to me [...]

Feminist Update

A week or so back, Apu wrote a post about a lack in desi-centric content on feminism. So I said, why don’t we (bloggers) all write about what feminism means to us? Apu’s response was this great post about what it means to be a feminist. Then, she tagged me on it and I wrote [...]