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I've been asked, recently, both by people who haven't known me for long or who don't know my family and by people who have known...

When Mum died eight years ago, I tried to help John understand, to get it to him that she would not be coming back. In the roundabout way th...

Godawful Poetry Fortnight was founded in 2008 . It starts on the 19th August and runs up to the 31st August. This blog is its literal and sp...

Out for a walk. We stop near a little stairway that leads to the highway, to watch the busses. These stairs wouldn't deter a motorcyclis...

He almost died several times in his first few months. Gran made Dad put his finger in that tiny palm, and that tiny hand clung on, and that ...

My mother told me that as a little girl in school, she would instinctively do things with her left hand. But apparently that was not consi...

Not endorsed by or asked for by the Mumbai Press Club. This is just me and Google doing our thing. List reproduced from a Mumbai Press Club ...

#WriteWhatYouKnow & all. In random order. Senior male docs are referred to as Dr [Surname] or [Surname] Sir. Senior female docs are r...

On V-Day, one male honeybee gets to mate, but at a sad price Ejaculation ejects sperm. And genitals, which can't bee nice *** Echid...

Hello Genderlog fans :) I'm doing a stint behind the wheel at @genderlogindia on Twitter next ^this^ week. The topics I plan to f...