The Sandstone Splendours of The Warrior Princess

There is nothing quite like history shivering down your spine. I find natural history speaks the loudest. It's there for you to see. How the winds and storms have sculpted monuments in their splendid poses. And if you are truly receptive you might feel the goosebumps of the people who might have once sunk their feet in those very sands. Scratched...

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Fanny Facials - Jiggy With It!

Warning: Not for classy ladies like my sister - who might find this article in poor taste :)* * *Read about extreme beauty treatments in the paper today and of course the Fanny Facial caught my fancy instantly. My first response was wow! Let me find out if there's any spa in Bangalore offering that. And once the excitement ebbed, I doubled...

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Funny Bane - Aha. Ha.

" ... The torture ends. And it's almost like years have passed. You silently walk back and try and squeeze between two fat aunties so that you are invisible. And it works. The soft pudgy flesh of their arms grinds your cheeks as they talk... Being funny is a demanding task. Especially if you are labeled the 'funny' one, and people wait...

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Uncle Patrick and His Azure Speedo

I saw some kids splashing in the deep end. And nobody else around except some humans who were languishing in the Jacuzzi. Then suddenly a walrus burst out from the center of the pool. A white Chinese walrus with black swimming goggles. I reacted. I was expecting more like a sweet Chinese penguin.In the eternal Singapore Summer of 2006, I...

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Wannabe a new-age Indian

I know countless people who refer to the act of being on their honeymoon as ‘mooning’, and each time – I react. Because before I encountered the mooning verb of the honey kind – I only knew the mooning of the buttocks kind. This western slang refers to the act of displaying one's bare buttocks by removing clothing, e.g. by lowering trousers...

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Bovine aspirations – Mooni badnam hui

If I am reborn – I’d like to be a cow. That is, if I am reborn in Bangalore. That would be the life. No no, I am not going to give you the regular spiel on how cows can walk on roads etc. Or maybe I am. But it’s not the fact that they can. It’s how they do. I just lovvvveee their confidence.How they sway dug-gu--dug-gu with their beautiful...

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Earthquakes, Volcanoes and The Ring of Fire - I

Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, New Zealand, Chile – familiar sounding names for volcanic eruptions and earthquakes isn’t it? And vaguely I knew that it’s cos they fall in the oft-heard of Ring of Fire. But now after the recent disturbances in Japan, I really wanted to find out about this ring and share the same in the simplest way possible....

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Reproduction is a-sexual matter

Put ‘sex’ in the title and suddenly it gets like a zillion hits. Even if it was something like ‘asexual’ and followed by ‘reproduction’. Or even if it’s something like ‘reproduction’ followed by ‘a-sexual’. Don’t tell me that you people were/are honestly interested in learning about reproduction. Cos reproduction is like a byproduct that...

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