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Ever since I met these women , I've been thinking about my 'bai'. The maid, the maidservant, the domestic 'help', the d...

This lady has a delightful take on the news and I've been meaning to link to her newsmericks blog for a while now. I would also like to...

Kathgulab was not an easy book to read, and it is not an easy book to describe. At best, I can describe how I dealt with it. I can only...

".... a long-standing myth that Hollywood is in the business of making great—and original—movies. This illusion, like all successful de...

Came across this article , about clean water legislation in the US... I'm not writing about it because the law or the environment intere...

"Early last year, 1,600 women, all of them health workers at two Cumbrian hospitals, won the biggest ever equal pay deal: a total o...

When I was growing up, I was given to believe that - as a girl - I'd got the best deal possible, being born into Islam. Which other reli...

I've been watching the cartoon tamasha for several days now, and not blogging about it because I was afraid to. I was tempted to say a ...

I have a new pastime since going to Punjab: turban-watching. All these years, I've grown up thinking that there are two kinds of Sikh tu...

In Jodhpur, or an hour's drive away, I met a man called Paipa Ram. Paipa Ram has Silicosis . Certified Silicosis... That's a very ha...

The Kalaghoda Gazette for those who can't be there, or those who were there but still want to read about it, or those who just generall...

How do you react to a man who is lying in hospital, minus three limbs ? How are you supposed to look when you step into the government hospi...

Prakriti has some very interesting perspectives on salespeople and cows. There is a huge cow in Jind, a large town in Haryana, which en...

Last fortnight, traveling to Makrana, while I struggled to read on the berth above, the three other people in the compartment discussed the ...

I'm not a scientist. I'm not a food expert. I'm not even sure I'm wholly receptive to the new and the un-tried/ un-tested. A...

Religious leaders have their merits. They're an endless source of amusement, for one, as reported here . One's imagination may be fo...

Cities have resident spirits. By spirit, I don't mean, soul. No, 'soul' is just not definite enough. The soul of a city is - pe...

In a small town near Jodhpur, saw a cow chewing at Celina Jaitley's bikini. The cow was calmly munching away strips of paper off a wall,...

I've been trying - unsuccessfully - to link to an outspoken young woman's blog and although I've gone and planted the link into...

Opinionated had tagged me, asking me for a list of favourite movies, and though I didn't really want to do lists - mostly because it is...