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→ July 21, 2011
What is a modern Indian woman to do if she doesn’t have a local extended family or her family has lost its traditions? Why, she consults Good Indian Girl, a how-to website that educates second-generation audiences on age-old cultural traditions. And then she passes her knowledge off as something she has known since birth. Founded by Silicon Valley [...]
→ July 18, 2011
Sometimes one looks at the wine list and one cannot help but wonder why a bottle seen at the local drive-through bottle shop for $15.99 is now $45. Was it exhausting to schlep it from the shop to the back of the restaurant? Does the sommelier have a shoe habit that has to be paid [...]
→ July 12, 2011
A familiar tale: Bride says, “I’d love you to be my bridesmaid. It will be loads of fun and you’ll totally be able to wear the dress again!” Bridesmaid-to-be gushes: “Why I can’t think of anything I’d rather do more in the whole wide world than spend a lot of money to look just as you want [...]
→ July 6, 2011
Yesterday while alighting from a car, an uncouth youth randomly told me I was sexy. While it’s true that I was wearing a particularly fierce lipstick, is this sort of street chatter really desirable? For some people, such behaviour can be an amusing flip to buoy one’s spirits, but for some, such conduct is intolerable. [...]
