Man! What a hunt and what a lovely surprise! What fun! And what an amazing bunch of people! I do not have words to say what your gesture has meant to me and am sure the other MTBs feel the same.
Tharini – what a lovely idea! Thank you for that and what followed!
And what a gang – Tharini, Gauri, Altoid, Sujatha, MM, Reshma, Anupama, UTBT, Suki, Daisy, Chronic Worrier, Dipali, Kiran, MayG, Rita, Parul, Ceekay, Mona, Ams, Asha, DDMom, Sue, Sunita, Orchid, Broom, Yaadayaada, Shobana, Nisha, Choxbox, Trishna, Y, …

This is an awesome story – a man who was burgled, used the power of the Internet to bring his burglars to justice.
Check out the video here!

My staple food these days are rice, curd and maavadu pickle. No matter whatever else I chuck, I can at least keep this combo down (touchwood!) With P, I subsisted mainly on pasta and S has taken to commenting, ‘this one seems to be an Iyengar maami!’
But now, my diet is under attack.
Not by concerned dietitians or anything of that sort – but by the Gods of Indian climate. Rice exports from India have been banned and I hear that this year, the mango season also has gone kaput …

 The last time I was pregnant, I was woefully unprepared, physically, mentally and psychologically. I felt totally out of control and worse, beyond extending any sort of control over my situation. I just decided to go with the flow and hope that it got me and my baby through to the other side.
It did. I emerged with a few scars and a firm belief that I will not go through it again. Of course I changed my mind. But being older and wiser (ha ha!), I decided that this time, …

 Fresh out of college, I used to work for a local, city-based portal as a content writer and then later, Web Content Manager. In that guise, I met many interesting characters, attended many functions and generally led an interesting life. But of all the people I met, none affected me more than Vandana and Vaishnavi, founders of women’s charity organisation, Banyan.
I wasn’t a trained journalist so had none of the grit or the backbone needed to tough it out in search of assignments. All I had was a head …

Image courtesy: AP/ BBC website
 Now if that isn’t a miracle, I do not know what is. This baby girl, born two months premature, when her mum squatted over the Indian toilet on a train in Rajasthan, survived the fall, lying in the cold for two hours and the filthy toilet, too!
May you live long, baby girl!
ps: This makes my fears of delivering P in the toilet bowl unknowingly, quite sensible!

Today’s Val’s day – Feb 14 – yipeee! Cue hearts and cheesy music. Oh and red balloons, red roses, red chocs and anything else in red you can think of. Blech.
All this ‘lurve’ floating around is making my tummy turn (and no it ain’t cos I am pregnant!). What a load of palaver over a single day. I tell you who ends up happiest on this day – Hallmark’s. And other like minded people. Like M&S, Interflora, Le Senza, Clintons and the guy on A127 who’s selling roses from a …

What a busy life it must be, to lead the life of the Indian Moral Police? Never a dull moment in their life, putting out moral fires in every corner of the town, saving the innocent public from the amohttp://im.sify.com/entertainment/movies/images/jan2008/sriyafunction200.jpgral denizens that are out to besmirch the Indian Culture and the rest of it. They have barely sat down after the Shilpa Shetty kissy kissy fiasco, only to bounce up over Shriya’s dress (or lack of) sense.
Actress Shriya, who played Rajini’s love interest in his hit film Sivaji, has …

A few months back, Reader’s Digest published a study of the British National Health Service and though the results weren’t shocking, it still sent a jolt to see in black and white what you have suspected all along: if you think the day-time service is pants, then the nighttime is nothing but diabolical. The long waits, lack of facilities and other niggles aside, the fact that one can never get a decent health service, because, ironically, it itself is ailing, is almost laughable. ‘Almost’ because it sure isn’t laughing matter …

Ahhh those good ol’ days at Ethi, when getting on a 11-series bus meant you’d get groped for sure. Full frontal assault or a guy poking his hard on into your ass through layers of clothing – take your pick. On one memorable occasion, a kind soul decided to take a lesson in Biology and flash us his gonads. Shocked my non-stop-jabber mate into Mute mode for a whole day – something of a record.
What is it with guys and these sort of animal behaviour? Is it repressed sex, …

Buried though I am, under masses of coursework and exam material, I still find to keep up with what my bloggy pals are upto – and do a random web trawl, while I am at it. And it was during one such sojourn that I came across this, admittedly  old, article  on Google. Made for a fascinating read (well, anything is fascinating when all you see around you is Interaction Design and sampling and pilot studies) – and I thought, being the kind, generous soul that I am, I shall …