Studying has become very hard to even attempt nowadays.I am blogging now with my notes on my lap.Instead of studying or atleast pretending to study with my notes in front of my face everytime my mother walks past, I am reading about the Besian school hostage crisis that happened last year.
My choice of movies is despicable but in books, its pretty fantastic.
My mother has been a member of Eashwari ever since "the days when I used to pick up Enid Blyton books for five annas.For forty five years I've been a member.FORTY FIVE."

I love Indian authors.I relate to their stories so much more.The first book I read was 'Aruna's story' by Pinki Virani.If I'm not mistaken, she also wrote 'Bitter Chocolate'.A book on Child sex abuse.The story revolves around Aruna, a young nurse who was brutally raped by a sweeper who wanted to take his revenge when she insulted him in front of fellow co-workers.He had also strangled her with a dog chain leaving her in partial coma for the rest of her life.Thanks to our judicial system,he was freed after..a mere SEVEN years on the grounds of 'robbery and an attempt to murder'.He hadn't murdered her.Her hymen was intact for she had been sodomized.Her family thought she was too much of a burden and left her to recuperate in the same hospital she was raped in.Her fiancee stood by her for a few years, resigned himself to his fate and married another woman who his parents had found for him.He was a doctor was absolutely besotted with the beautiful nurse.The story of how they fell in love had me fighting back tears.Resentment towards her family,anger at our country's lawmakers and grief that such pain should befall upon another woman.

'Inside the Haveli' was a fantastic read.It's written by Rama Mehta and the story unfolds in the town of Udaipur where a city girl has been married into a traditional family and their haveli.I believed that with her education and upbringing, she would cause a whirlwind change in the household by changing their rigid rules and customs but the book ends with her adopting their traditions and changing herself.

'Brahmins and Bungalows' by Kavita Watsa was very very boring.I expected it to stir up some fond memories but it ended up being like a travelogue interspersed with history lessons.

I haven't read the rest yet.But I did read Woman's Era.Its the WORST magazine you can ever find in this country.There is a particular column known as the 'How I Saved My Marriage'.The woman this month was born to a family of priests and she had married a particular chief priest.On a visit to Bombay, he had fallen sick where he had to be hospitalized.The hospital was mostly run by Malayalee nurses and he had taken a liking to one.Now the wife didn't know all this and was not a bit suspicious when he used to make his trips to Bombay ever so often.One day, as she took her son to pray at the temple before his board exams, she saw her husband sitting in a room with a little boy who looked exactly like her son.She 'wisely' told her son not to tell his father.Instead she tackled the problem by finding out the nurse's history.The Mallu nurse had separated from her husband.So the wife goes to the husband and pleads with him to take back his nurse wife.Mallu nurse and her ex husband were reunited.
And this is how the woman saved her marriage..........!
Lucky chief priest.He gets all the action and this is how his wife treats the situation.Perhaps to an extent,some women can never be changed.