
Reena Shah
blogs from Bangalore


A teenager is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma sprayed with a noxious cloud of Axe deodorant. Maybe I should just say "deo," because that is how these companies choose to describe their products, no doubt armed with market data that many of their targeted customers lack the attention s...
Posted on 24 March 2010 | 1:32 pm
Read postMy daughter once pronounced twenty as the cutoff age for someone who is old. By this count, I've been old for most of my life. Yet I brazenly pass birthday after birthday feeling not a bit older, let alone old. Sprightly as I may feel, when I talk to my children about my childhood, I come across as...
Posted on 15 February 2010 | 3:30 pm
Read postA long solar eclipse was visible in Bangalore on Friday, January 15. Since the eclipse was to start at 11 a.m. and go on till 3 p.m., the children's school, like many others, decided to declare a holiday. I can see why. I wouldn't want to have the responsibility of making sure any of the hundreds of...
Posted on 17 January 2010 | 5:39 pm
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