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Deepavali--Then and Now

Posted 26th October 2008 at 09:12 AM by padmininatarajan

It is the eve of Deepavali—Dhanteras for the business community. I sit here at my keyboard and think of all the Deepavalis that have gone by. I am laone at home and my husband has gone for a walk. The children are away in their own homes and family is scattered all over the world. We have wished each other Happy Deepavali, sent virtual namaskarams to the few elders alive. We have received many more mails with namaskarams as we are the elders now and replied to these wishes with blessings and good...

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Grandmothers Quotient

Posted 18th September 2008 at 01:07 AM by padmininatarajan

I am a Grandmother and naturally most of my friends too are Grandmoms. The ages of these ladies ranges from 90 to 40+. In this day and age forty plus you may well ask. Well! If my friend, Malu got married when she was 18---it used to happen and is coming back into fashion whatever the laws may say—she had her first child at 19-20. Her daughter got married when she was 21. So the maths works out to Malu being a granny at 40+.

Now let’s talk about other pluses and minuses of being...

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The zero factor

Posted 13th September 2008 at 12:14 PM by padmininatarajan

Birthdays are great occasions to celebrate—that is if you are 3… 4… 8…10…13…16… 18 and 21 years old. The first time that you realise that you are ‘old’ is when you hit 25. Then onwards it is downhill and at forty you really feel that you are over the hill and far away.

Is this the real scene or is it a canard advanced by all those beauty product manufacturers, the spas and weight loss promoters and feminists who see your biological clock slowing down? Is the frightening forties...

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Hobbies

Posted 1st August 2008 at 06:01 AM by padmininatarajan

Hobbies have always been a secondary activity, a spare-time recreational pursuit. They were practiced for interest and enjoyment, rather than financial reward. Activities like collecting, creative and artistic pursuits, making things and sports lead to acquiring skill, knowledge, and experience. Personal fulfilment was the aim. A hobby horse was a child's plaything, a wooden horse mounted on rockers and the child straddled it and pretended to be riding it.

People collected things—stamps,...

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Cooks Ahoy!

Posted 1st July 2008 at 08:10 AM by padmininatarajan

When I was a young girl, our house was like the Central Station. It was the hub for anybody with something to do in Chennai—and they used to land up at any time and leave at any other time. My mother had to cater for the invasion and she not only had to cook the nitty-gritty stuff of sambhar, rasam, kari and kootu but as she was famous for her All India menu and jhol, chana bhatura, Bhel, Khandvi and a host of namkeen and sweets was expected from her ladle. Special requests for exotic fare...

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Stories That Women Tell

Posted 29th May 2008 at 10:46 AM by padmininatarajan

It continues to surprise me that women have horror stories to relate about their experiences with a mother-in-law or a daughter-in-law.

Let me assure you that I am not disbelieving it at all. I am just trying to think aloud with all of you about this syndrome.

The people who write and read these blogs are educated women of all ages.

Many of the perpetrators of either MIL crimes or Daughter-in-law tortures are people who have been exposed to learning,...

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Women--Sacrifice or Selfishness

Posted 15th May 2008 at 11:23 PM by padmininatarajan

“You must learn to sacrifice as bliss comes only from Thyaga not from Bhoga”…this was the first message in my Inbox from the archives of Sai Baba.

Women are never actually taught how to sacrifice. It just comes naturally to them. They automatically share with their siblings, give away to their brothers privileges and priorities, succumb to family pressures and demands and subordinate their own likes and dislikes.

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Beauty Contest Scene

Posted 14th May 2008 at 05:53 AM by padmininatarajan

Ho hum! One more Beauty Pageant has come and gone. Did you watch it? I didn’t as it was just a repeat of all the beauty pageants through the years. Same routines, same bodies, same brains and same reactions!

Can you recall any one winner’s name in the past few years—after Piggy Chops, Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta won their international pageants in 2000?

In the global contests are our Beauty Queens not beautiful any more or are they not making it to the final...

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Que Sara Sara!—what Will Be, Will Be

Posted 20th April 2008 at 12:42 PM by padmininatarajan

All of us love to know what is ahead for us in the future. That is why every newspaper and magazine gives daily, weekly, monthly forecasts for your star sign. Of course there are many streams of foretelling the future—Indian and Western astrology, solar and lunar astrology, palmistry, reading the fall of shells that are thrown, reading coffee or tea dregs at the bottom of a cup, reading faces and the mystical crystal ball that is supposed to show the picture of the man you will marry.
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The Celebration Of Life

Posted 28th February 2008 at 10:12 PM by padmininatarajan

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Mischievous, intrepid and bright
Every son reflects the qualities of Rama
Obedient, truthful, just and kind
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All daughters are the...

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