Elizabeth Gilbert, and now Julia Roberts, ‘Eat Pray and Love’

Sheer indulgence, this.
 Imagine travelling to three countries on the other side of the world, within the space of twelve months, and living on a thematic basis for four months at a time, the primary themes being gluttony, meditation and sheer adolescent romance. Imagine meeting people of all sorts in all sorts of situations, living in [...]

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Brigade-ier than thou

It’s been exactly two months since i landed in Bangalore. (Or Bengaluru, if we are being nomenclaturally correct.) It has also been exactly two and a half years since i first set foot, and my eyes, on Brigade Road – that supremely popular, commercial, heavy on traffic and human population, little street between MG Road [...]

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‘beg’ your pardon, world.

here’s a dilemma.
What do you do when you walk down a pavement with an iced eskimo in your hand, and see a woman sitting there, emaciated beyond belief, with her newborn child in her arms, her clothes in rags, her hair a congealed mess framing her dirt streaked face, asking you to help her out by giving her some money? [...]

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another gender bender…

Here’s an example of how we completely absorb the mentality that fevers around in society, even when no one has explicitly taught us things. Here’s also an example of what blindness men and women live in, and how easily hypocrisy comes to man. and woman.
IH:i hope u’v seen boratG: yupi bought the damn fake in [...]

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Another immortality

My grandfather breathed his last today. Before the day had even dawned in my subconscious, he was gone.
Sri Bhagwan Gupta was born on the other side of the India-Pakistan border, almost a century ago. He was the youngest in a family of twelve siblings. He grew up to become a farmer, learning to till the [...]

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Violence in Venus

just another day at work. sitting in front of a computer. like everyday. where is the variation?
so i just came across this episode of modern day enslavement. one Mrs. Sabhnani, resident of New York, has been treating two Indonesian women in a “less than human manner” for the past 10 years or so, implying violence, [...]

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