I have oppressed woman hair. No, not “oppressed hair”, as Alice Walker famously put it; the ceiling on my brain cannot be blamed on the chemicalisation or colonisation of my locks. I mean I have the hair of an oppressed woman, heavy duty developing world diva hair. Think Draupadi. Think Dravidian Rapunzel. I have hair [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 11, 2009
In TOI Today
In today’s Times of India Chennai edition anniversary supplement — here.
This was a surprise (and my name is misspelt!!); am told it’s a condensed version of an interview that ran a few weeks ago, which I haven’t seen yet.
April 4, 2009
The Venus Flytrap: Surviving Venus Retrograde For Dummies
Venus, my beloved cosmologically-savvy friends tell me, is in retrograde. Which means that it looks like it’s moving backwards in the heavens (or in the regions beyond the gravitational influence of the earth, if you’re a soulless skeptic), but it isn’t. Kind of like when your columnist appears to be gossiping and procrastinating on Gtalk, [...]
