Showing posts with label Magazines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magazines. Show all posts

Friday, 16 October 2015

Five Reasons why you must attend the Sushant Lok Durga Puja Festivals!

This article has also been published in What's Up Life!, Gurgaon Moms and Suburb magazine.





1.  “Atithi devo bhavaa”

Well, here’s an offer you cannot turn down. Sushant Lok Committee invites you to be a part of their celebrations for all days throughout the season. It is an unconditional invitation, and there are no costs or frills to it. Be their guest!!


Monday, 5 October 2015

Girls Are Not Any Superior To Boys!!

This article has also been published in Women's Web and a magazine.

Girls are not any superior to boys. Please, it’s important to emphasise and re-emphasise this.


Those regular status messages and those frequent Whats-app forwards that paint the town pink – that tearful letter from a father to his married daughter, that list of things woman leaves behind in marriage, surname, home and freedom to not cook food, to why is mother the next best creation, or wait, the best! No, don’t buy them. Don’t buy them at all!

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

একদিন বৃষ্টিতে বিকেলে...

This has been published in a Bengali Magazine called "Shukhi Grihokone"



বিতানের সাথে সেদিন হাঁটতে হাঁটতে অনেকদুর চলে গেছি। কথা বলতে বলতে এ-গলি সে-গলি পেরিয়ে কখন যে রাস্তা হারিয়েছি, দুজনের কেউই খেয়াল করিনি। খেয়াল যখন হল, তখন বেশ গাঢ় সন্ধ্যেবেলা। আর তার সাথে লোডসেডিং, চারিদিকে ঘুটঘুটে অন্ধকার। শুনেও শুনব না করে শুনতে পাচ্ছি, মেঘের ডাকটা বাড়ছে, ধুলোর ঝড়টাও শুরু হয়ে গেছে, এবং অবধারিতভাবে আর একটুক্ষণের মধ্যেই তেড়ে বৃষ্টিটা নামবে। কিচ্ছু করার নেই!

পাড়াটা নতুন, বিতান বাড়িটা সবে ভাড়া নিয়েছে, আজ সকালেই চাবি পেয়েছে হাতে। পেয়েই ফোন। আমিও ঝোঁকের মাথায় অফিস ফেরত বাড়ি না গিয়ে যা হোক একটা কিছু বলে বাড়িটা দেখতে চলে এসেছি। আর তাছাড়া, বিতানকে যতটা চিনি, এসব পর্দা, পাপোষ, বিছানার চাদর টাইপের দৈনন্দিন জিনিসপত্র কিনতে গিয়েও ছড়িয়ে লাট করবে, তাই আসতে আমাকে হতই।

Saturday, 1 February 2014

Our first PTM!

This article has also been published in Women's Web, World of Moms! and a magazine.


I was ready to take the blame. I was ready to own it all up, before they would even start. In my wild imagination, I even pictured myself joining my hands as I would tell them all about it; but of course, better sense prevailed.

It was our first ever Parent Teacher Meeting, PTM as they call it these days. I was, to say the least, nervous.

It should not have been our first, which is, well, the first blow I was expecting.

Thursday, 24 October 2013

Everyone around seems to make babies, and recently I made one too…

This has also been published at World of Moms! and a magazine.


Everyone around seems to make babies. Those who sleep and eat on the open roadside make them in dozens. And what’s the big deal – they’ll grow up only to become another you or another me, or worse still, another of that guy who we together spent hours cursing at. Yes babies are cute, we love to cuddle them but isn’t that true for a puppy as well for that matter..?. so, what’s so special?