Freeze your eggs young ladies, waiting for frosted sperm
Young ladies, multinational companies are now offering to ice your ova. Facebook and Apple will put in the requisite sum to refrigerate those eggs so that you can go up and up the corporate ladder...
View ArticleThe day Kim Kardashian’s butt went psycho, rear-ending the net
The Kardashian girls have been at the front of the rear-end movement for quite some time now. Particularly Kim, who has been slowly but steadily flashing us over a decade till the day her butt...
View ArticleBreaking the last taboo — let’s talk about cancer, live to tell the tale
Not many can say boo to cancer. Put down to junk food, genes, smoking and bad luck, cancer generally has few takers. No oncologist, plastic surgeon, painkiller firm, florist, undertaker, chemo-giver,...
View ArticleValentine’s Day separates man from mush: He won’t give in and she won’t give up
Today all emotionally challenged men will squint at the calendar. No flowers, cards or gifts; he won’t be manipulated by some silly date. The truth is, after 364 days of absolute silence he cannot...
View ArticleDefending marital rape means knowing a Miss can’t let a man touch her, a Mrs...
It is considered that the concept of marital rape, as understood internationally, cannot be suitably applied in the Indian context due to various factors, including level of education, illiteracy,...
View ArticleLove bug and the trouble with Tim Hunt: Scientist chicks are such Juliets
Stop, all you ladies in the labs, you minxes! Who let them into a science lab with microscopes and Bunsen burners around when they should be knitting little booties? There are soon going to be...
View ArticleNo more calling mother – Scientists are conspiring to make babies from cells
Babies have been trying for some time now to get made outside wombs. Ask any foetus, so downmarket really to be handmade when designer is the way to go. If what scientists are psssting about...
View ArticleMaids to memsaabs: The little something secreted away from their husbands is...
Ebony and ivory were living in perfect harmony in safe deposits all over India. Unlike brides, who were asked to turn white, black money was told to stay black. Then one stormy night, racism caught...
View ArticleGender of insanity: Why should female menopause be hot flushes, male...
Is going to shrinks a girl thing? In Dear Zindagi Alia Bhatt is seen hanging out with her psychiatrist, a male and deliciously low-key Shahrukh Khan. She is the emotional bumbler and he the smoothening...
View ArticleSexist little pill: Hence her walk of shame, tapping foot in a doctor’s...
It’s for our own good that the cookie jar full of morning-after pills is placed just outside our reach. There’s a walk of shame, tapping foot in a doctor’s waiting room, listening to why you...
View ArticleLonger mommy leave: There’s a special delivery for women and men are...
Maternity leave just got longer. Paid ML has gone forth and multiplied to 26 weeks, more than double its previous size. Women no longer have to plot how to add CL (casual leave) to EL...
View ArticleHands off, says Melania: Plus, bare headed while deplaning in Saudi Arabia,...
Donald Trump may never hum ‘I want to hold your hand’ again. Not after the hand he put out was refused by the missus. Maybe Melanija, the Slovenian who dropped the ‘J’ from her name...
View ArticleBahu ho to aisi: Rabri Devi wants daughters-in-law straight out of Ekta...
Rabri Devi has spoken what’s on most mom-in-law minds. She wants a bahu straight out of Ekta Kapoor’s serials. You know, the one who chops onions in a kanjeevaram sari with sindoor trickling down her...
View ArticleYoga doesn’t always help: Sometimes you end up doing the I-can’t-get-up asana 😜
If you’re on your yoga mat right now trying to figure out which leg or hand to move to un-entangle yourself, take a deep breath. Here come some new studies that almost stand this traditional...
View ArticleMixing the genres: A literary twist to #MeToo has the Nobel academy in turmoil
The #MeToo narrative just got bookish, with so many sexual abuse tales tumbling out of Sweden’s Nobel team for literature. The well-read members find themselves main characters in a story that will be...
View ArticleWhere’s the party tonight? When it comes to revelries, give us a wedding any...
We are Indians, we increase the population, that’s what we do. Someone has to fill up the world, OK? For this we wed. And we do so happily, loudly, with band, baaja and maximum baraat. No one elopes...
View ArticleGood golly, Miss Jolly: Fairer sex tried to go noir on us plus someone set...
The last month of the year is a good time to take stock of what our girls are up to on screens big and small. In a bit of reverse racism, the fairer sex tried...
View ArticleIf life is a movie: We are in the scene just before the climax where James...
If life is a movie, we are watching the scene just before the climax, when everything looks bleak and a sad song plays. Soon James Bond will chase the villain codenamed Covid-19 in FBI circles...
View ArticleAll I want for Christmas: To look all lord of the manor like Tom Cruise while...
Dear Santa, You must be busy sanitising your sleigh and masking up your reindeers. Just don’t cough, sneeze or clear your throat, OK? This is not the year to go ho ho ho. 2020 has...
View ArticleRIP Valentine’s Day: An obit to a day that went missing this year, going down...
Dearly beloved Valentine’s Day, we can only sigh and bite our lip under the mask. As we lay you down to rest this year, we imagine you in a group hug with the ghosts of...
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