When I was 18-19, I used to be very conscious about my looks. I would get my eyebrows threaded every 15 days. ‘Only extras’, I used to instruct the beautician. I would add, ‘Patla nahi karna!!‘ My eyebrows were never thick or even dark to begin with, so this was a doomed request. Every time …
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There was a time… She would wait for dad to come back from office. He would get cream rolls.. She would jump and cling to him like a monkey. She would snatch the cream rolls from him and giggle. She would finish it all too soon, white cream on her teeth and her mouth. He made …
There was a time… She would wait for dad to come back from office. He would get cream rolls.. She would jump and cling to him like a monkey. She would snatch the cream rolls from him and giggle. She would finish it all too soon, white cream on her teeth and her mouth. He made …
Sorry for this misleading title. I do not have any reason for you to get a short haircut! I got one recently. So I wanted to blog about it. I just thought this title was cool! Actually let me start with a little background on my hair. I have had long hair since the time …
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Thursdays it was. Library period is what they called it. They would remove their shoes outside. The library was as small as a regular classroom. Yet, for her it was a fortune. Which book should she pick? She had all the options in the world! Aisle after aisle. Shelf after shelf. The smell of old books. …
The cute child “Bachche Chacha Nehru se pyaar karte the! Chacha Nehru khoobsurat the. Bachche har khoobsurat cheez se pyaar karte hain!” I listened, admiring my beautiful Hindi teacher reading out a chapter on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The teacher was very fond of me. “You look like a doll!” She would say. I would blush. …
When I Realised That The Festivities I Cribbed About Were About Celebration & Family When I was a kid I waited eagerly for festivals. More people in the house, pichkari, pathaka, new clothes, cousins, sweets, fun, laughter. What was not to like about it? But as I grew up, I started hearing things which made me cringe..
When I was about 14, I had watched a television series on Sony called Hubahu starring Sandhya Mridul. She played the role of identical twin sisters. One sister, Aditi lived in India. She was a homemaker married to a college professor with a son. She lived a boring, stable life. The other sister, Ananya was …
I watched Gold yesterday. I wish I could review the movie…. I usually do not watch a night show during the week days because I have to get up early thanks to work. But yesterday, I ended up watching the night show as there was only one show in the nearby theater and the whole …
I went to the beauty parlour yesterday to get a haircut. Just a haircut. Nothing more. After calling five salons where the “senior stylist” and “creative consultants” were charging a bomb I decided to go to the salon I used to visit regularly. Now, I moved so this is quite far from my new place. …