As is evident from my header image, am extremely vain, critical, self centred and image obsessed. Also a devoted mother and wife and daughter. My five year old is the love of my life, and my husband has sadly been relegated to second place since his arrival. Live in Mumbai. Live to eat and shop and read. Once upon a time I had a career as a journalist. Now I am a kept woman.

37 Responses to “The story of me”


  1. 1 Rashmi January 14, 2008 at 5:37 am

    Found ur blog thru MM’s.. U look incredible for 36! :)

  2. 2 Niyaz PK January 30, 2008 at 8:23 am

    Tell your husband to stop biting his nails… ;)

  3. 3 Swati February 22, 2008 at 9:32 am

    Hey Kiran ..Have known you always ..will discover the other side of you here:)

  4. 4 Indian Homemaker March 17, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    I started blogging two months ago. Reached here through….I think, ‘Three Drinks Ahead’. I have only read ‘Weekend at the mall,of course.’ yet. Lovely blog, adding it to the list of blogs I read…my blogroll.

    Am honoured and flattered. Thanks for dropping by.

  5. 5 Gopi May 23, 2008 at 9:20 am

    hi kiran,

    this is gopi and i went thru your personal blog which is nice to read along. it will be nice if you visit my site http://bookfundas.com which is a blog that provides free ebook download links, dedicated for all students and youth belongs to engineering, medical, IIT aspirants, Novel lovers and many more… and hope you will also like my website. if so, then kindly add my site link also in your blog thereby helping the students to find the ebooks totally free for their education . I will be thankful to you…

    Regards,

    Gopi

  6. 6 Nandini i:e aluchaat June 10, 2008 at 7:04 am

    Ha ha ha ha ha i love the last line. you sure are a witty person :D

  7. 7 pujathakur June 11, 2008 at 8:54 am

    Hi..
    I like your wit and thoughts! Nice Blog!!

  8. 8 La Vida Loca June 18, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    That is you in the header..i’ll takee it at 36 :)

  9. 9 SANJAY CHAWLA June 19, 2008 at 3:40 am

    very interesting….u have d words…and expression….no one can keep u…i mean hold u….well..i have a publication on apparel/fashion( B2B)..from bombay…y dont u contribute on freelance basis…thou still being kept at home..hehehheh

    cheers!
    SANJAY CHAWLA

  10. 10 Roop Rai August 22, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    i am in love.

    with you.

    sounds creepy?

    please not let it.

    i mean, i love your attitude, writing, and not to mention, the picture too. you’re the only person besides me who has their own picture in the header but i went even more steps further … u’ll hve to come look. :p

  11. 11 FreeinIndia August 27, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    Hello Kiran,
    I liked your blog very much. You write very well. I am giving you a tip. I have created a new website (http://www.freeinindia.com) for free things in India. The site contains genuine things that are free in India. It may be anything like- Free accommodation, Photo Prints, SMS, DVD rental etc (I do not put any adult material).

    Please have a look. I hope you will find it interesting enough to mention on your site.

    thanks,
    FreeinIndia

  12. 12 valaikkulmazhai October 2, 2008 at 6:19 am

    Hahha …
    Intro speaks for you (last line oops) …like to see more from this one time journalist.
    -Karthi

  13. 13 Double Seven December 17, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    I don’t know where I found your blog. All I came here to say was you are not looking like 36 AT ALL!
    You honestly look like that you would be somewhere between 23-26.

    This is the oldest and the best picture I have of my self. So dont go by it. I was probably that old when it was clicked.

  14. 14 charlotte January 14, 2009 at 10:23 am

    Hi there,
    I amd 30 and still counting!! well, i liked your blog, that’s why i wanted to leave a comment. Interestingly, i arrived at your blog trying to see how to wear a saree!! And then i read several posts in one go. good work, all the best for new posts!
    charlotte

  15. 15 Kanan January 21, 2009 at 9:05 pm

    You are funny.. cool blog! :)

    Kanan: Thankee

  16. 16 Orange Jammies January 27, 2009 at 3:46 am

    K!!!! It’s me!! Hello, hello! Just hang on a minute, will ya, while I drag over a stool to stand on and announce that all the stuff about being overweight and wrinkly is unadulterated bunkum. Bah! There. I’m done now. :D

    Oh no, my secret is out. ;p

  17. 17 sscribbles February 11, 2009 at 11:30 am

    hi,

    can i have ur email id for a story that I am doing on the cosmetic industry. Has been following your blog regularly so thought maybe you could give me some quotes on shopping during the gloom period. Please write back on my email id.

  18. 18 Sarika March 12, 2009 at 9:33 am

    Hi,

    I have been living abroad since high school days and am in Bombay for a holiday with hubby. Well this was my first holi in ages and though it was fun overall – i guess i am still to recover from the amount and EXTENT of groping i underwent yest…And all this happens as a given – i saw other ladies being groped too…its a given…I was dressed normally in tights and loose top( guess it shud have been tight)…but the extent to which i was groped (i had hands under my top) was shocking….

    Is this a norm??? you mentioned it in your blog which i came across while surfing…..thot i wud write to u….have u had similar experiences too????

    • 19 Kiran Manral September 3, 2009 at 3:57 am

      Well, not anymore. It is not a given anymore. At least the housing complex we live in, the men do not play Holi with women other than those from their immediate family.

  19. 20 BombayNinja March 19, 2009 at 3:02 am

    Hey,

    I came across your blog on Labnol’s India Blogs list. We are trying to build an Indian community (http://YoSamosa.com) that is vocal around a range of topics. We strongly believe that the future of publishing is crowdsourced where content is published on a distributed network of blogs.

    For now the community is exclusive and by invite only. I’m sending out the third set of invites to bloggers who might want to utilize this platform for promoting their posts. As the community grows it could expose your blog to a large user base interested in your writings.

    Follow this link: http://www.yosamosa.com/?xgi=b5UNX4L

    Cheers
    BN

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  20. 21 Ajit May 28, 2009 at 9:09 am

    hi,
    hope u r doing great….the way u write makes it a nice reading…kudos..
    tc
    Ajit

  21. 23 anindosanyal June 7, 2009 at 5:14 am

    Hi,
    Found ur blog in a daily….could’nt agree more with Rashmi. At 36 u look very appealing. Kudos. Hope ur blog’ll b nice reading.

  22. 25 Broom June 16, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    Hey Kiran,

    Hope your brat’s better now.

    For some reason I can’t access the karmic kids blog here at work. and cannot find your email address.

    Hugs & Healthy vibes to the little brat.

    x
    Broom

  23. 27 Vikas Gupta June 19, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    You should use categories and tags while blogging. That way it would have been easier browsing the blog!

  24. 29 Ahalya July 8, 2009 at 9:32 am

    your blog is an inspiration to me and my gang of old women cronies. Hooray to you and more power to you!

  25. 31 Steve September 2, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    May God and the Son of God, Jesus Christ, have mercy on your Pagan soul.

    L, STeve

  26. 33 march hare September 4, 2009 at 8:47 am

    Oh Jesus! Have mercy on your PAGAN soul? Really? :P

  27. 34 Nova September 18, 2009 at 9:30 am

    Randomly chanced upon ur blog… a good narrative style of writing… Good job :)

    Keep it up :)

  28. 35 Jesa McGinty September 28, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    Hehe. You definitely don’t look 36. Must be your pagan nature:P Man, that guy must hate his life.What a dip.

  29. 37 inbavalli October 27, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    Landed here with some blog-hopping and am I thrilled! It’s long since I ‘discovered’ some great writing. Will get back to tomorrow to read the archives :)

    Thank you, keep coming back.


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