Monthly Archives: January 2012

…for a few days while I don’t post too regularly and instead bore you all to tears with unabashed plugging of my book? You will, won’t you? Cross your heart, swear to die, etc? In consonance with that spirit of … Continue reading →

Kiehl’s came into Mumbai a month or so ago with a lovely store on the ground floor of the Inorbit mall, one I passed by everytime I went to Inorbit, but being dragged around in typical ring through nostril style … Continue reading →

I gave a talk on India Helps at the Zeitgeist Conference at St Xavier’s last Saturday. Will write more about that experience later, but suffice to say the levels of professionalism and organisation that these students showed knocked my socks … Continue reading →

…so what is new about that, you might ask, kind reader, knowing well, if you read me relatively regularly, that wardrobe crisis moments dot my everyday existence the way said potholes dot the surface of out Mumbai roads, and with … Continue reading →

…it started actually, ten days ago. Dear friend Parul, bestselling author of Bringing Up Vasu and By The Watercooler called up, and said, without further preamble, “Do you know your book is on flipkart?” Now the book had been written … Continue reading →

It started as a chat on twitter and emerged into a fullblown invite from Bungalow 9 in Bandra to lunch. As a lady who never turns down any opportunity to ingest the sinful calorific stuff, I was the quickest to … Continue reading →

Finally, the book is out. Not on the shelves yet, a couple of days more for that, but it is available on all the leading e-retail sites. Flipkart Crossword Indiaplaza Infibeam Dialabook What are you waiting for, go forth and … Continue reading →

The society I live in, comprising six towers of around 20 floors each, is one that takes its celebrations really, really seriously. Consequently, every festival whether it is Ganesh Chaturthi (five days of a Ganapati installed on the premises, with … Continue reading →

The years, they just fly by. So quick.

Hot on the heels of the top cop in Andhra Pradesh, DGP Dinesh Reddy making a statement about rape cases rising because of women dressing provocatively comes this from a minister in charge of women and child welfare. In today’s … Continue reading →