Day 2: The first two hours on any flight are fun. You see the magazines, you check the movies available and all that. But then you start to long for a comfortable position. You long for comfort and you pine…
Author: Shakti
Indian Sisters in America
Day 1: We managed to check in our overstuffed bags. This was it. I was going to see the united states of America. Well ok, not all the states and not exactly on a holiday. But yeah. I was going…
A recipe, a heirloom and an eyeopener
My grandmom is a phenomenal cook. She makes the most delectable fish curries and all but her true speciality is laddoos. She makes so many awesome laddoos that she has penned a book with 52 recipes of laddoos. And everyone…
Friday Night Movie Babble
You get a movie recommended by a friend and it sits in your pen drive forever. And on a rather sloppy Friday night most of your friends are working late and your parents don’t really want you to venture out…
Celebrating Love…
“Why are you going to the Queer Azaadi March?” asks a friend. After seeing me drool after SRK, Johnny Depp and Dempsey, she knows I am straight, so it beats her as to why I need to go participate in…
The Way He’d Make Me Feel
I’m 25, I’m single and everybody except me is wondering why and quite a few have decided it’s their personal responsibility to set me up with the dream boy. Especially at weddings and family events, cupid sports a saree, big…
Dating vs Relationships
Confession: I haven’t dated much. My relationships (barely any I’ve had) they’ve been a case of ‘friends become lovers’. Yeah, I can’t exactly call myself an expert on the game of dating, really. But I am a romantic, and I…
Metaphor For A Metaphor
Metaphor: it has defined much in life. It has complicated things and yet simplified so much. Metaphor is what I hide behind when im too cowardly to be in your face and one such night, I tweeted about my love…
Parchai
Ek zindagi Kai kahaniyan, ek kahani kai parchaiyyan Ek parchai hai Jo saath chalti hai Mujhse Kai sawal poochti hai… Jawab kaise dun, Mai nahi janti, Har jawab mein ek nayi kahani, Ek nayi zindagi…
RIP MJ
When you wake up, you happen to check facebook for birthdays and you read RIP Michael Jackson in your timeline, you know it’s a sad sad sad day. I went numb. How can he die? He used to live in…