I am sitting in a sunlit nursery on the top floor of Inder Dhillon’s Ashbury Terrace house, watching through the wide wall-to-wall windows as the Blue Angels crayon the sky in silver loops. Inder and his boisterous fifteen-month-old daughter, Meera, sit below, on a...
“So, what do you do?” For Imran Ismail (some names have been changed upon request), this typical conversation-starter is one of the main reasons why he doesn’t like meeting new people, “It’s hard to tell them that I don’t do anything,” he tells me. Ismail is not...
When 27-year-old Vineeta Singh (all names have been changed to protect privacy) received a marriage proposal from a groom in the United States, she saw it as the perfect escape from her life in Bombay. She agreed to marry this almost-stranger that she had met through...
Office Space. This is one film almost every self-respecting techie has watched. In one of the movie’s most memorable scenes, the protagonists get together and smash into pieces what has hitherto been the bane of their lives—the office printer. Funny? Definitely. But...
There is this story, perhaps apocryphal, of the woman who comes out of the restroom with a strand of toilet paper hanging from the back of her skirt. Finally, when someone screws up their courage and tells her about it, she laughs and says, “Oops, now you’ve caught me...
