Back in 2004 or so when Nokia was ruling the market and mobile-cam was the cool thing to own, we were entertained with a rather nasty mms of a bare breasted girl sucking on to a man’s stick! Aajtak and the likes had a field-day showing how characterless the girl was & how bad their animation team is!

When persons belonging to different castes marry, what happens to their caste status? What will be the caste status of their children? Whether a woman marrying a Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/OBC citizen becomes entitled to claim reservation under the SC/ST/OBC quota?

It’s been said since ages that the choices we make for ourselves define who we truly are. I agree. But the real question is: are we really making those choices by ourselves? Now this is quite a difficult question to answer.
When we are stuck in the middle of so-called competitions posed by the society ruled by conventional minds, how often do we know what we really want to do? Our only competition is with our neighbours, classmates, colleagues, etc. But are we encouraged to compete with ourselves?

Since ages mankind has believed in sharing of ideas, information and goods. This has helped knowledge and resources to reach different races and generation. This sharing led to the evolution of a system that can be beneficial for both the parties evolved in the process. We call it the payment system where the acquirer pays some negotiable instruments to the seller. What makes it a system is that it involves some substitute in return to the good being sold example cash, draft etc.

It all began a few years ago when I saw the raunch culture invading our lives. In a country like India, where women who were once considered to be the backbone and preservers of society, have now become liberated to the extent that they hire male strippers for their parties.

Today sport emerges as a billion dollar industry throughout the world. It employs millions of people either to participate or to witness sporting activities. A change in the pattern of consumption, production and management of sports has been observed in recent time due to the introduction of professionalism into the system. The objective of this article is to understand the structure of this industry and its status in India.

I was told by my grandfather, Boris, that the man with my mother in the only picture of hers hanging over the mantelpiece was my father and I believed that, till I was nine. The man who told me stories about my dad died two days before I turned nine. And the next day I was told by my mother that he was not my grandfather. He was her professor and our landlord. That we lived off the old man’s gratuity fund. Now that he’s gone we were broke.

“A real woman always keeps her house clean and organised, the laundry basket is always empty. She’s always well dressed, hair done. She never swears, behaves gracefully in all situations and all circumstances. She has more than enough patience to take care of her family, always has a smile on her lips, and a kind word for everyone. Post this as your status if you, too, suspect that you might be a man.”

I thought, I will start this post by throwing my postcode on your face, I live in west London, in a large two bedroom purpose built modern flat with good furniture, wardrobe so big that a couple can make babies in there and I have five of such, two balcony, communal garden, parking, garage, and if this is not enough to rub you in a wrong way, I left my job which cost me good half a dozen lakhs in mere three months!

When I was ten and my younger sister was seven, we religiously watched a film called ‘Mama’s Going to Buy You a Mockingbird’. It is a story based on the novel of the same name by Jean Little. The film is rare and was made for television.