I am currently obsessed with the idea of story telling, in all it’s forms- TV, film, radio, comics, books, songs, poetry, comedy, books, newspapers, art, people. The centre of human existence are the stories we tell. Without them there is no craft, there is no art. Every moment we spend alive is a story we […]
I FINALLY went and saw some theatre after nearly two years of not having seen a single play. The two plays I saw were IPTA’s Kashmakash at Prithv theatre and the second one was Yatri’s Chinta Chodo Chintamani at Veer Savarkar auditorium For both plays, I realised I had the evening to myself after a […]
They say it takes a village to bring up a child-Stella Aunty was my village. I have prevented myself from writing anything about her. Because all I have to offer about her are these stupid, selfish and ultimately useless sentences. Some cliched bullshit about how no words will be able to encompass what she is. […]
My essay on “Power and Comedy” for the Power Issue of Verve Magazine, June 2015 We Indians have an iffy record when it comes to having a sense of humour. We are accused of having none — the past few months have reminded us that we will muzzle a joke while hate speech flows from […]
This is my column for Femina Magazine, November 2014. Do pick up a copy! (I am a stand up comedian and life gets pretty uninteresting when you’re touring alone for days from airport to hotel room to stage to airport to hotel room to stage to airport to hotel room etc. And even though my job may be […]
My column for India Today Magazine (Simply Mumbai), Oct 2014. If you are a middle class woman in Mumbai over the age of 20, then you know it’s in the air. Halls, banquets and grounds all over the city have been booked since June. Event management companies are fighting with decorators who are fighting with […]
My column for Femina Magazine Oct 2014. Do pick up a copy! It amazes me that in 2014 we are still having the debate about who pays for the first date. Being a strictly middle class girl, I think that there’s a need to define the word “date” for the Indian context. “Date” When two […]
This is my column for Femina Magazine dated Oct 15th. Do pick up a copy! It’s so easy to hate people at gyms. Because we live in a world where everyone is supposed to be polished, perfect and presentable at all times. You want to look hot but the impression to be given is that […]
My column for Femina Magazine dated Aug 22nd, 2014 The conventionally unattractive man is ignored because he is, as the ad suggests, conventionally unattractive. He grabs the dildo shaped graphic emblazoned with a word like “Gravity” or “Deadly”, “Inflation” or something equally vague. He spurts it in the general vicinity of his conventionally unattractive torso. […]
My column for Femina Magazine, dated September 2nd There’s no better way to put it, but I was kind of a bully in school. Not the menacing, “I’ll carry a knife and threaten the teacher with it” kind of bully we see in Hollywoods films, but the kind of snide little schmuck that needed a […]