Rachna Singh's Blog, page 11
June 4, 2014
Those Civil Lines Girls
Growing up in Allahabad in the 80s meant being in perpetual awe of those Civil Lines girls. They were the pretty ones – with chic haircuts, well-styled clothes and perfect strokes/dabs of kajal and lip gloss . One could spot them cycling to school, their trendy socks folded down to ankle-length and their pleated skirts […]
May 16, 2014
The Amazing Spiderman II
We watched The Amazing Spiderman II with the kids yesterday. It was about as amazing as the spider that crawled under a carton in my garage the other day. Firstly, they handed us 3D glasses to view it. There were no 3D effects worth the glasses – unless you wanted to soak in the dimensions […]
April 16, 2014
Like A Bride on Her Wedding Day
Voting Like Bride on Her Wedding Day By Rachna Singh The writer is a bestselling author of three books written across the genres of humour, love and relationships: ‘Dating, Diapers and Denial’, ‘Nuptial Knots’ and ‘That Autumn in Awadh’. You can know more about her from her website: www.rachnasingh.net Like a bride on her the morning […]
April 13, 2014
Those Gorgeous Scraps
As twelve year olds in school, we would wait for our birthdays eagerly. Amongst the top three irresistible treats that awaited us were the ‘scraps’ Sister Elizabeth gave the birthday girl, the other two being the new dress and the gifts. ‘Scraps’ were pretty cut-outs of flowers, fairies or festoons. They were printed on dainty […]
Making Sense Of Human Nature Could Be Nonsense!
Leverage. Optimize. Make more out of less. These quests have fascinated us from even when we had not created these words. How do we construct people systems that are optimal? Instead of random people existing together, can we create some rules by which the right people are placed in the right place? The caste-system, Plato’s […]
April 8, 2014
Dodo Parents
There are so many poems and songs out there to tell us how amazing parents are. It’s been drilled into us so much that if we, for once, even, fleetingly, think otherwise, we feel more guilty the dog who broke the cookie jar. But, to take a fair viewpoint, I think parents are the kind […]
March 5, 2014
Shaadi Ke Sidey Effects
In ‘Shaadi Ke Saath Effects’, people in the hall were erupting with laughter all the time. You know that kind of laughter – in which the person laughs loudly, his body jiggling like radioactive jelly, and he pushes the person next to him away from him by placing one hand on the neighbour’s shoulder and […]
March 4, 2014
I don’t want to buy your book!!
People, in general, flinch at the thought of having to buy a book for general reading. Of course, I don’t mean all people: just the larger section of the universe. Now, I don’t mean it as a lament or gripe. It is just a fact we need to explore. While we don’t mind whipping out […]
February 12, 2014
Getting Married? Ease yourself
Marriage, they say, is not easy. You need to sit down, take stock at times. You need to expel what is bad and retain what is good. It’s no point beating around the bush. Sometimes, it just helps to take the bush head (butt?) on.
February 11, 2014
Excerpt from ‘That Autumn in Awadh’
The girls greeted her in the bus, warily. They had joined Telco a few weeks earlier. Divya was an Electrical Engineer from Roorkee and Rakhi was a Mechanical Engineer from Ranchi. They looked like simple, studious girls, who had worked hard to get here. They were dressed in stodgy, sensible engineer-like attire, the primary function […]
