Five signs you are becoming friends: Facebook version
So you met through a common friend, you were cordial and had no hostility. And now you’re Facebook friends and show up in each other’s virtual worlds. Are you becoming friends? Here’s how to tell: They acknowledge your comments by ‘liking’ them. Yes, your pun was hilarious, and yes, you …
Continue ReadingFive Apps that would do very well in Chennai
Five apps that will make our lives in Chennai much, much, happier. Hello, may I speak to Apps please? Thank you.
Continue ReadingDeepavali at home: As a Child vs As an Adult
STOP RUNNING WITH SPARKLERS IN YOUR HANDS!
How was your Deepavali?
Continue ReadingDear Cleavage, the first among my several open letters to human body parts.
Read my letter and learn something, Cleavage.
Continue ReadingDear Chennai II: Your prodigal child returns
Dear Chennai, I have returned. I have returned to your burning bosom, and I am once again engulfed, nay, ensconced– in your warm, scorching embrace. You may remember when I wrote you this letter, full of nostalgia and sentiment. In a happy miracle, it was immensely popular among us Chennaiites, much like …
Continue ReadingHer: Commentary, Cautionary tale, Spoilers.
Contrary to popular belief, the movie Her was not about Ann Veal from Arrested Development. But here is what I think it was about.
Continue ReadingPink Sari Revolution: Review
Amana Fontanella-Khan’s Pink Sari Revolution tells the story of Sampat Devi Pal and her infamous Gulabi Gang, a women’s group based out of Uttar Pradesh(UP) in India, while following the controversial case of Sheelu Nishad vs Purushottam Naresh Dwivedi from 2009. Involuntarily, the book is a demonstration in the intersectionality between the …
Continue ReadingThings I wish I had learned as a child
One of my resolutions to help me combat my hatred of New Years is to fight pessimism. It’s ironic and stupid, but growing oneself is not meant to be intelligent.
Continue ReadingBehind the scenes with: Dhoom 3
Dhoom 3 is low hanging fruit, but I am a short, small person.
Continue ReadingIt is ‘nonsense against science’: Analyzing Mohana Krishnaswamy’s defense of the 377 in India
The Hindu ran a piece supporting the criminalization of homosexuality in India, and I try to analyze it for us illogically challenged folk.
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Five signs you are becoming friends: Facebook version
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Five Apps that would do very well in Chennai
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Deepavali at home: As a Child vs As an Adult
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Dear Cleavage, the first among my several open letters to human body parts.
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Dear Chennai II: Your prodigal child returns
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