All ye who visit ‘A Time To Reflect’, all ye who leave nice comments, all ye who lurk quietly on these pages and all ye who read this blog through an aggregator, now is the time to come to the aid of the needy and deserving. The husband and I hope to participate in this...
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…sounds so much better than Mumbai monsoon, no? Anyway, the free ride is on and it is a lovely rainy evening and so what better time to head to Marine Drive? The sea link bridge has heavy slow-moving traffic, despite Amul’s latest ad that says ‘no jam, only butter’. I kept my eyes peeled for...
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Here is a plug for what I think is a worthy cause – Culture Aangan is a Bombay-based NGO that works in the Sindhudurg region – they have homestays and several women’s self help groups. I recently spent a few days at the homestay place in Shirgaon near Devgadh… I am helping them set...
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The new ad for Maruti Suzuki -what a lovely ad! I could not stop smiling at the cleverness of it (and I mean it in the best possible way)… I am feeling to lazy to describe it, so let me paste from the storyboard – The TVC opens in a house buzzing with wedding festivities....
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This is not a good way to begin a Monday morning – What’s the connection between abortion and careers? But it appeared on the blogs feed, shared by Gautam Ghosh and I read it. It takes a *lot* of courage to bare one’s soul the way Penelope Trunk has done here (knowing the kind...
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A friend had this status update recently on facebook – “Amazing how “online” has killed the phrase “on the line”. Even answering machines now say “please stay on line”. The Wren & Martin in me shudders to hear such things.” No, it is not about online and not online. It is about articles slowly exiting...
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25 years of providing hours of entertainment and relief from officialdom and boredom – thanks, tetris. The mark of a productive day at work? Closing your eyes at the end of the day to see block after colorful block of tetris fall in front of you, against a black sleepy background. Long ago, a...
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Jab sardard ke liye time na ho – when you don’t have time for a headache, pop a Disprin, the ad says. The pill dissolves in water, you swallow it, and hey presto! no headache. Relief in ten minutes. Reckitt Benckiser, but here is the thing. When does one have time for a headache? And...
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Pope to receive potentially 5 millions condoms in the mail – thanks for sharing this, Abi. To add to the humor (that’s not really that funny), it turns out that folks in Italy are not taking well to the Pope’s allegation that condoms have led to an increase of AIDS in Africa. In response they...
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