Making and sustaining positive and healthy female friendships in your 20’s, 30’s and beyond is getting harder and harder. Bonding and connecting has changed. Everyone is looking for something. Why is it so difficult to bond with other females? Are we playing The Game with each other? What exactly is The Game? And are we winning or losing?
“When Obama became President, there was a lot of excitement about Government. Respected academics, like my former Dean at Duke, Kristina Johnson, left their jobs to help change the world. Nearly all of these people became disenchanted. Government jobs are considered drab and bureaucratic again—like they used to be.”
Vivek Wadhwa on the resignation of Vivek Kundra, the Federal Government’s first Chief Information Officer (CIO)
“Ink to paper is thoughtful
Ink to flesh, hard-core.
If Shakespeare were a tattooist
we’d appreciate body art more.
~Carrie Latet”
An NRI discovers time is a very different commodity in New Delhi and New York
EST – Eastern Standard Time – Or I must Eat and Sleep so I am in Time for my meeting.
IST – Indian Standard Time – Or I will Sleep and take my own Time because my Time is only mine – no one else owns it…
No wonder IST is also known as Indian Stretchable Time!
Kriti Mukherjee in The Chatty Divas blog…
“So I am relatively new to this 140 characters world. Been there for a bit but just can’t figure out what to tweet about.
When I do find something fun to tweet about, I spend 5 minutes trying to get rid of the negative character count .. aaah … how frustrating!! Do you know how hard it is get interesting thoughts across in less than 140 characters?
Imagine if Twitter existed in the Elizabethan era! I think I need to enroll in a ‘Twitter Short Form Writing’ class right after I get done with ‘What Do I Tweet About?’ ” – Ruchi Kalra
“I am dedicating this blog to the lovely Marilyn Monroe. Her birthday was on June 1st 1926. She would have been 85 years old. Marilyn Monroe was a beauty and cultural icon. Her amazing beauty and tumultuous life has left people fascinated and in awe of her.
Marilyn was born into a traumatic situation that haunted her at every stage of her life. She was misunderstood and exploited as an adult. However she kept going and fighting her battles independently. Today, she represents single women everywhere because of her constant search for true love and the perfect career.
All she ever wanted was everything. Isn’t that what we all want?” – Sex and the Single Desi
Is Skype the new matchmaker? Can a robot inventor find true love in Nepal? Can a Hindu and a Mormon find bliss together? Can you get good karma for just $ 10? Read on..
On a hot summer day a stranger intrudes into an air-conditioned private home in Delhi and leaves food for thought about old age, pride and the dignity of labor.
First blog post on The Chatty Divas.
This is what my email account yields: “This year, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens once every 823 years. This is called Money Bags. So, forward this to your friends and money will arrive within 4 days. Based on Chinese Feng Shui. The one who does not forward this will be without money.” Ah, the many easy ways to make money via email!
How are friendships created? What attracts very different people to each other? This blog introduces two fast friends who lived thousands of miles apart, one in New York, the other in New Delhi. They got to know each other through Facebook and have now actually met. Meet Sulekha aka Lucks, and Kriti who will both regale you with tales from their own frenetic worlds. Sometimes you will see your own lives and your own truths reflected in there. They chat a lot so be prepared to listen…