Sanju C. | Nov 24, 2006 | Features, Youth
WEEK 1: First Moves “Hey! Stop that!” I have just returned from the oddly located restroom in Buddha bar—you have to pass through a gate that guards a flight of stairs—to find that Geekgod has stolen my cell phone and is now scrolling down my list of numbers. “Who is...
Sanju C. | Nov 24, 2006 | Features, Youth
WEEK 1: First Moves “Hey! Stop that!” I have just returned from the oddly located restroom in Buddha bar—you have to pass through a gate that guards a flight of stairs—to find that Geekgod has stolen my cell phone and is now scrolling down my list of numbers. “Who is...
Sanju C. | Oct 31, 2006 | Features, Youth
SUNDAY 7 P.M. “What are you going to wear?” Vidharbha asks. (All names have been changed.) “No idea.” Phone pressed to my ear, I stare sadly at the worn-to-death black dresses hanging in my closet. “You?” The two of us are finally doing something together after two...
Sanju C. | Aug 15, 2006 | Features, General
WEEK 1 “Have you heard about the ladder-jumping theory?” My male companion asks across the dinner table. We are seated in the wooden booth of an Eritrean restaurant, and he is giving me the guy perspective on male-female friendships. “In any relationship with a girl,”...
Sanju C. | Jun 22, 2006 | Features, General
WEEK 1 Why are there no Single People Jokes? Would they be too offensive, like making fun of the handicapped? Are singles now so pitiable that any joke about them is in really bad taste? Is that why we have Married People Jokes? And Single People Clichés? I am being...