The Last of the Maamis

As a rule I’m not too fond of the maamis. The ones that insist on being madi*, the ones that fret over rahu kaalam** and yama kandam**, the ones that don’t enter the kitchen during their period, the ones that insist that other women in the house follow these rules at the same time cutting [...]

Happy and gay..

What with the major debates doing the round about sexuality…I was reminded about the time I first heard about the word “gay”..used in a context other than meaning happy!!
I don’t rememeber the exact year but I must have been around 10 or 11…I was handed a questionnaire by someone doing a survey god knows about [...]

Hop skip and jump

I had written earlier about how the hailstones in Madras gave me that final push to start this blog…this was the incident, I think the first incident that caused me to think that I should write a blog…simply because it was such a sweet little thing that had happened that provided me with such amazement [...]