Happy Something Day! 22

This Mother’s Day, Brether’s Day, is all getting too much I say. Only last month, on June 15th, my cousin brother called me at the ungodly hour of 6.00 am. “Why you didn’t wish me?” he is asking, “Lalli, Paddu, even my North-Indian daughter-in-law Sweety and her parents are calling to wish me.” “Is it ...

Book review: Don’t slap your wife but don’t get slapped either (by Dr. Sunil Vaid) 13

Somewhere inside this odd and inconsistent book is a sensible little self-help book trying to get out. In the preface to Don’t Slap Your Wife But Don’t Get Slapped Either, Dr. Sunil Vaid says that, although he agrees that is mostly women who are “suppressed, manipulated and tortured” by their husbands, this book gives voice ...