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The crib: Day 2: Diya, Shaun and Covent Garden
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Thursday, August 22, 2013. Day 2: Diya, Shaun and Covent Garden. Diya, my friend from University, and her diminutive husband Shaun, took a train to London from Sheffield to attend the races at Ascot and visit the perambulating Basu family (us). We agreed to meet at the British Museum at the sensible hour of 12 PM, because we were getting over our long journey, and Mia was still very under the weather from her cold. Bought-it’ look. Tintin with the mushroom thingy it was then and out we hurried,...Unfortu...
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The crib: July 2013
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Of Ka-kaas, bow-bows, miaow-maows and Phishees. Day 6: London Zoo. We decided to take a cab to the London Zoo because it was steadily drizzling, and none of us felt up to our usual gymnastics on elevators and escalators with the stroller in tow. Besides, we wanted to remind ourselves of how the city above-ground looked like, because really, the bowels of the earth look very similar whichever country you go to. (It’s black and whizzes past.). 8220;No, these are Sumatran tigers, the...
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Raven's Plume: The Importance of Being Thirty-something
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007. The Importance of Being Thirty-something. Also on MSN India. Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to 34 year old meeeeee…. Today, I am one short of that magic number- 35, and I’m counting my blessings. And the wonderful thing is I have almost as many of those as I have imaginary friends. Scoff not, twenty-wotsit whippersnappers, nor shed a tear my thirty-something friends, there is indeed plenty to celebrate:. I have a bit more weight on me but also.
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Raven's Plume: August 2007
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007. The Importance of Being Thirty-something. Also on MSN India. Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to 34 year old meeeeee…. Today, I am one short of that magic number- 35, and I’m counting my blessings. And the wonderful thing is I have almost as many of those as I have imaginary friends. Scoff not, twenty-wotsit whippersnappers, nor shed a tear my thirty-something friends, there is indeed plenty to celebrate:. I have a bit more weight on me but also.
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Raven's Plume: Twice as Nice
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Monday, August 20, 2007. Also on MSN India. I’ll have some, thanks! In my experience most things are better the second time around. Don’t you think left over curry is tastier than freshly-cooked? Overnight, the meat soaks up all the flavours that were swirling around in that extra bucketful of water you’d tipped in accidentally, and in the morning it’s fit for a banquet! As you slope around the house in your pyjamas on a rainy morning. I find that especially true of those. Of course, you could watch R...
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Raven's Plume: The Food of Love
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Friday, July 20, 2007. The Food of Love. Also on MSN India. If you are looking for that oysters-dipped-in-pink champagne recipe (always served wearing red stilettos and nothing much besides), or you want to know whether white shallots from Albania munched at bedtime will rekindle passions, this isn’t the page for you. I am not withholding information hoping you buy my new cookbook out in stores now (you’re confusing me with Nigella Lawson, it’s easily done! My idea of the ‘food of love’ is no...It isn...
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The crib: Are we safe anywhere?
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Saturday, May 9, 2015. Are we safe anywhere? I’ve been in a cynical, depressed kind of mood today, people. I keep saying to myself, what’s the point? Look at this Salman Khan thing. The man goes scot free (yes, yes, suspended sentence of 5 years, boo-hoo for him) because he’s a famous actor and because the person he killed was a nobody. Now if Salman Khan had managed to run over Shah Rukh Khan, I’ve a feeling things would have run a very different course. And yes, all the other murderers out there should...
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The crib: The Travelling Circus on Day 9 and 10 in New York with Satarupa
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013. The Travelling Circus on Day 9 and 10 in New York with Satarupa. For the NY leg of our trip we decided to dispense with a mobile because a basic connection would have cost us a 100 dollars, and what did people do a decade ago when they travelled without cellphones? I have no idea how anyone met anybody else at pre-determined times and places before mobile phones allowed us to check every movement. “Where are you now? 8221; “Put the phone away and Look UP you idiot! We headed o...
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The crib: April 2011
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Saturday, April 30, 2011. The police can’t consider this a case until ‘someone files a complaint’. I don’t know if I missed the report where many public minded citizens then sprang to the defence of the victims of these horrifying crimes, and lodged PIL after PIL, but I’m guessing The Indian Culture Police didn’t really think these incidents worth their outrage. What’s going on here? What’s behind this attitude? It’s fine for a woman to be a victim but not the mistress of her own body, is that it?
