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Category: Rant

October 6, 2016 Death / Musings / Rant

The Spectacle That Is Death

I scroll through my twitter feed, aimless, bored. I hit the search button and key in #Jayalalithaa the results stream

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September 12, 2015 Arranged marriages / Indian marriages / Love marriages / Marriage / Musings / Rant / Vent / Wedding

On marriages, love and excuses

Seated across the office at the children’s school for a small talk on adoption (a whole another post altogether) being

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January 21, 2010 Blues / Rant / Vent

Life is whizzing past…

Ever get that feeling that you are caught on the median with vehicles flying past both ways wondering if the

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June 17, 2009 Rant / Vent

Tired of it all

Tired of the BS. Tired of waiting. Tired of being miss goody two shoes. Tired of having the right attitude.

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May 14, 2009 Musings / Ramblings / Rant / reflections / Words

Struggling with words

An idea struck me at work while helping a friend. I was in the middle of something and could not

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May 5, 2009 Change / Feminism / Life / Movie / Music / Musings / Rant / reflections

Stereotypes, Songs and Musings

Listening to this song from Autograph, I was mesmerized by the voices of the people singing it and lost in

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January 4, 2009 Feelings / Life / Misc / Musings / People / Personal / Ramblings / Rant

When the joke is on you

Stepping outside a friend’s home yesterday night, I bid bye and one of the guys said something to mock my

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October 30, 2008 Ramblings / Rant / Sadness

Entitlement

All my life I grew up feeling entitled to a whole lot of things like a happy childhood, loving parents,

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October 10, 2008 Diary / Feelings / Inner Voice / Life / Musings / People / Ramblings / Rant / reflections

Awkward Pauses

Walking down the corridor that leads to my classroom, I passed several of my new classmates. Smiling vaguely and waving

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October 3, 2008 Desi / Life / Misc / Musings / Rant / reflections

What Will Others Say?

“Our neighbour has invited me to receive thamboolam…” said my mom and trailed off. I could visualize what the rest

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September 20, 2008 Change / Diary / Feelings / Inner Voice / Life / Musings / Ramblings / Rant / reflections

Mellowed down?

Watching K drive away for his regular Saturday cricket matches, I picked up the phone to call my mom like

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August 27, 2008 Frustration / Ramblings / Rant

Why not me?

A few minutes back, K forwarded an email containing baby pictures from a common friend. I looked at the pictures,

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August 12, 2008 Musings / Ramblings / Rant / reflections

My calendar is full!

Yes. I was looking at my calendar this morning and realized from this weekend through mid September I know what

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July 25, 2008 Desi / Feelings / News / People / Rant / Social

May they rot in hell!!!

I logged in to chat with my mom early this morning like I sometimes do and she said “Bangalore rocked

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July 15, 2008 Desi / Feelings / India / Life / Musings / Rant

When?

When I read articles like this one that appeared on CNN today it irks me no end. Not only because

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June 3, 2008 Change / Diary / Family / Feelings / Inner Voice / Life / Musings / People / Personal / Ramblings / Rant / Relationships / Social / Work

Dealing with cards you have been dealt

Early yesterday morning I heard from my friend of two years that she had been let go. It took me

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April 17, 2008 Books / Business / Education / Ego / Frustration / Home / Inner Voice / Life / Musings / People / Personal / Ramblings / Rant / reflections / Work

Are some things fated to happen?

Two years back bitten by the academia bug I made an appointment with Penn State Student counselors to figure out

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