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. […]
(I was asked to perform the above monologue for a workshop recently for which I wrote a character study in the “stream of consciousness” style. Therefore it’s a first draft, no editing went into it. ) It is just a gorgeous day outside and much like any other New Yorker who let’s the weather dictate […]
And God said, let there be mushrooms, and there was mushroom cappuccino with truffle oil, He said, “Let there be fish”, and there was baby rawas , He said “Let there be lamb” and there was lamb shank and last of all, He said “Ay Ganpat, chal daaru la” and there was pitcher of white […]
Nick introduced me to Sigur Ros when we were just getting to know each other. Moments of the first few months we spent together, are punctuated by their music and so I think I’m particularly partial to them. During those days, as we sat at Heddon watching the sky reflected in the placid water of […]
Kirsten handed me a copy of Kim Edwards’ The Memory Keeper’s Daughter a week ago. She said it was a book I had to read, and I think she’s also been trying to pan off her books on people she know will respect and care for them, since she moved into her new apt. in […]
Yesterday, while hanging out with Sunny bhaiya, my cousin who takes the mantle of “Geek” with too much pride, our conversation steered as usual to our children, or as they’re known to the general public, the i-phones. At the cost of wandering off on a tangent after the first sentence of the post, I love […]
“Today, two of my cousins sat me down and said they wanted to give me an early Birthday present.With straight faces, they look at me and say: “we signed you up for eHarmony, and paid for 12 months. Not only do my cousins think I need help finding a boyfriend, but they think it take […]
And every song in there reminds me of you. It stands for a moment, a feeling and this unbridled freedom I feel when I’m by your side. I think of that time, in the beginning when we would lie in each other’s arms, not able to get enough of each other, kissing and talking till […]
He was sitting on the edge of the wooden slats that framed the doorway of the living room in my uncle’s house. I just happened to walk past. I did not go there with any particular purpose. As I mentioned, I just happened to walk past. This was an acquaintance, a distant family member that […]
(A short scene based on Artemesia Gentleschi’s “Judith and Holofernes: Series, written in iambic pentamemter) CAST The Maidservant: A young woman, heavily pregnant and a product of the society that she lives in and the way she has been treated all her life; 25 Agonisto: An important, high ranking official of what would eventually become […]