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I am usually reluctant to mix my worlds, and have taken a few pains to keep my blogging world and my poetry worlds a little bit apart. But t...

It has been seven years since. Or eight. I don’t remember his name. Nor his number. He gave me both. He asked me for mine – name and number....

When I returned home, the first thing everyone in the family asked was: "So how does it feel to be back?" I answered with the trut...

Dear O'Hare, Chicago, Airport I have a grouse. Actually, I have many. I visited you recently and found that communications wise, you are...

Got this message from here . Please pass the word around and help in any way you can. "The high tidal waves on 24th July destructed sev...

Several things went on through the day at the BlogHer conference 09 . For me, the single most important event was that my laptop wouldn'...

Will be here . Those of you who can be there, well, be there, and those who cannot, read about it.

"Last year Karla Hoff , an economist at the World Bank who is currently working at Princeton University, and her colleagues reported th...

Facebook says I is a player's girl. That cocky so-and-sos and know-it-alls Just look at me and rise, as if to bait And I just looks at t...

Essentials of journalism: Get facts. Get opinions. Get counter-opinions. Question everything. Now here are (or what appear to be) the facts:...

"In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demo...

A few weeks ago, I offered to volunteer through Karmayog . On the form, I had mentioned that I live in a distant suburb, and that I could no...

Last night I cried in a movie You cry, if that's all you can do Last week I stopped reading a book It hurt too much to see it through Th...

(Caution: a bit of a ramble and a rant.) Was talking to some friends - about films, good and bad, about books and the market, the usual sort...

Saw and heard Mahashweta Devi today. Random question from girl in audience: "What is your take on the term 'feminism'?" Th...

A message from the Pink Chaddi campaign : Dear All, The hackers have been at our facebook groups for a while (perhaps you noticed *smile*). ...

When I was a little girl, I equated rape with death. The movies (and bad pulp fiction and even comics) were to blame, of course. I did not ...

When I read that an editor in my country has been arrested, on the grounds of having outraged me , all I could feel was shame, and revulsio...

Talking about films - or any art form - can be a draining exercise. I am often overcome with a sense of futility mid-way through such conver...

A few days ago, a friend had handed me a copy of A Grasshopper’s Pilgrimage and asked me whether I’d like to review it on this blog. I was ...