Whose hand is this, anyway?

Women are always at the receiving end of things. This is especially true of the nudges and pinches from elements which women have to put up with almost every day. Women who use public transport are only too well acquainted with this form of harassment. Take buses for instance....

Ami Kolkatan

Call me a mixed-fruit jam, khichuri, dhansag…my lineage is as mixed as it gets. While most of my friends have a simple answer for “Tui Bangal na Ghoti”, I have to start tracing my family tree from Adam. The result is that the food served at our table is a culinary mixtur...

When 'hot cakes' cooled in the marriage market

The slump in the IT industry is causing IT professionals to slide down a few notches in the matrimonial market. Earlier considered ‘hot property’, a ‘good catch’, the situation is such that parents are actually shunning these guys where marriage proposals are concerned...

Kalimpong callsKalimpong is one of those places that remains in your mind’s eye long after you’ve left it behind. We were tired of those ‘popular holiday destinations’ where one invariable meets people from the same neighbourhood- where bapi occupies the opposite hotel room, and you bum...

'May you die a dog's death'

Having seen a number of very well-fed and pampered dogs, my friends and I often joked about being born as dogs in our next lives. In such a scenario, the much used Hindi curse "tu agle janam mein kutta paeda hoga" (you’ll be born a dog in your next life) lost its si...