Shail's Nest

Here is something that happened during my college days. The year was 1979 and the place, St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam. One fine day as the classes in the college were in full swing, some boys from some nearby colleges barged in, pushing aside the lone security guard at the gate. This was a rare and [...]

I was born in an age when it was assumed by the general majority that it was quite okay if the man hit his wife occasionally (all for her own good) or even on a regular basis for her ostensible ‘mistakes’ like putting too much salt in the curry or not serving the tea at [...]

If you were to have met me a couple of days back on the Intercity Express and were to surmise from the smug expression on my face that I was content at a job well done, you would not have been far from the truth. The next question that begs an answer would then arise: [...]

All ye sisters of mine (and you brothers, stay well out of this one!! Grrr….) lend me your ears or rather this being a blog and all that your eyes please. I recently came across a  ‘prescription’ and a mind-bogglingly easy one to swallow …errrr, follow, for that ‘very liberating’ feeling we the sisters have [...]

- a rant pure and simple, be warned. Earlier I used to attribute the fact to my diminutive size. After all at an under-sized five feet nothing and weighing less than a feather figuratively speaking and a soft voice, one is easily missed in the blink of an eye so to speak. And when you [...]

This is not what you think it is. Moi certainly doesn’t have an identity crisis. Oh no siree, not at all. But someone or someones (Pardon the expression, I know there is no such word, but just couldn’t help the usage) else seems/seem to have a ‘crisis’ of gargantuan proportion about my ‘identity’! Now if [...]

I am always impressed by the concern the stalwarts of society seem to have for women/girls and the innovative approach they take to prevent eve-teasing and sexual harassment. Never mind if that innovative approach is one that has been playing for centuries like a broken record, ‘Girls! Dress modestly!” which in the present contest means [...]

It is not easy being a writer, even an amateur one at that. Oh no siree, not at all. Hmmm… On second thoughts I think that statement calls for an amendment for I certainly do not belong to the illustrious cadre of ‘writers’ in the real sense but to the lowly tribe of bloggers. But [...]

If you notice, I have two new badges in the top right-hand corner of my page. The copyright one is familiar to most of you. Perhaps the one below is not yet. Enough is enough. I have now joined the Bloggers Against Plagiarism drive. It is the need of the hour. Just what the doctor [...]

My sister-in-law said she cried while reading it. As for me I went through a whole range of emotions while going through Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns’ (Thank you Maddy for the gift). At one point I was even laughing myself silly, in total disbelief too, where the religious leaders find the ‘bare’ long [...]