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Ask anyone and they will concur, that their most joyful childhood moments revolved around the summer break. Two months of unbridled freedom from the tyranny of homework and exams. Expectedly schools...
View ArticleAn Alpine Adventure
The Volvo was speeding towards Yash Chopra land. With my nose firmly stuck to the window of the bus, my eyes were busy soaking in the vast stretches of verdant greens. I was expecting Madhuri Dixit...
View ArticleHail The Haggler
An Indian woman is at her orgasmic best with the golgappa walaa (sorry to disappoint you boys). Eyes gleaming, she mutates into an insatiable harridan. Gobbling golgappas at a speed which will put...
View ArticleButt Unnaturally!
Ever since man stood straight, built a fire and made the wheel, women have been asking him a question; even after centuries of interrogation, he has yet to come up with a satisfactory answer. She...
View ArticleClick here to Save the World
Anybody who's a regular on A-Musing has to know Snow Leopard. The Auntius-Cub duo are "world-famous" for their online sparring. The two years I have known him, I have seen him evolve into a seriously...
View ArticleIndian Railways and Toilet Discharges
My resident guest blogger, Cacofonix prefers erupting once every few months, to remind the blogging world of his existence. While he was busy shivering in sunny California, he finally sat down to...
View ArticleThe Ugly Side of Gurgaon
Today, somebody sauntered off with my handbag from the Huda City Centre Metro Station in Gurgaon. Emerging from the security booth I discovered, much to my horror, that it was missing from the X-ray...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of The Missing Handbag!
My purse wasn’t stolen after all. After 30 harrowing hours of running around, frantic phone calls and crusading online, a gentleman called up from Bangalore to say that my purse was in his...
View ArticleAre We Failing As Citizens Of This Country?
After I wrote about the “Ugly side of Gurgaon” a lot of my friends wanted to know, what I was planning to do next. An incident such as this cannot be dismissed as a one-off occurrence. It happens...
View ArticleThe Unfairness Of Being Fair
courtesy : Google images It’s a crime, not to be fair-skinned in our country. I mean God must have been vacationing in Goa for you to be born so dark. In India only the fair have the prerogative to...
View ArticleDilemma of the SAHM
Courtesy - cartoonstock.com For the longest I didn’t know what SAHM meant, not until I became one myself. For the uninitiated, it means stay- at- home- Mom. In our quest for simplicity we have a...
View ArticleDo beggars deserve our alms?
Courtesy - Google Images For someone born and brought up in a country that accounts for 1/3rd of the world’s poor and is equally famous for the Taj Mahal as it is for its slums – I still have to get...
View ArticleA walk in the wilds
It was supposed to be a walk in the wilderness for the nature deprived, polluted air inhaling, city bred brats. Stressed by the sights and sounds of the city and tired of spewing angst at news that...
View ArticleBye Bai Patil Taai
Patil Taai was sunbathing on the beaches of Seychelles, nodding her head to Anup Jalota’s bhajans, her pallu firmly tucked under the sun hat, when she heard the first murmurs. They sounded human....
View ArticleHey Ram! Leave Sita alone
Courtesy - Google I wonder why people refuse to let go of Sita? The lady renounced public life 7000 years back and went underground. Hopefully after years of wilderness, she found salvation there....
View ArticleCartoon is the new Porn
Google images Extensive usage of objectionable material by NCERT books is corrupting young, innocent minds. When our esteemed Parliamentarians made this shocking disclosure, it took the nation by...
View ArticleConfessions Of An OCD
I was in college when I discovered I was cursed. Every time I stood next to a bedside, my fingers would start twitching uncontrollably. It started with a tug here and a pull there and then it...
View ArticleThe Return of the Didi
Courtesy Economic Times There’s a shiver of excitement coursing through the Trinamool cadre. Their very own Mamata Di has now achieved global notoriety. Soon after Time magazine featured her in...
View ArticleAsh you like it
Image courtesy entertainment.in.msn.com I wish I had the same friends and well-wishers that Aishwarya has. It’s been over five months and the lady has yet to shed her post-natal fat. Yet all I hear...
View ArticleDelhi meets its Water-loo
Courtesy -peakwater.org Recent findings have revealed that Delhi’s drinking water has something that the rest of the country doesn’t have. As if it’s not enough that the capital is envied for a world...
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