The Maha saga

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Ok...so after days and nights of will they won't they, was he, is he - Shoaib and Sania are ready to take the plunge. But only after everyone has concluded that Shoaib is a liar and cheated Ayesha, or Maha, or whatever her name is. The clinching evidence apparently is a stained garment of hers. But then she isn't Monica Lewinsky. Then why on earth would she "preserve" those clothes as proof for some future event when she might need to pin Shoaib down? But still, she seems to have a degree of public sympathy. A colleague wondered why a respectable Muslim family would wash their daughter's dirty linen in public if it wasn't true? But why then, did they keep mum for so many years, and not settle the matter when the media glare was not on them. Why didn't they save their....

Woman on Top

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The other day I picked up a book by Seema Goswami. Its called Woman On Top and it advises today's Indian woman on how to get ahead at her workplace, how to deal with her boss...even how to dress. While reading it I remembered an incident hat has been at the back of my mind for a couple of months now. I was shooting for a story in Rajasthan and needed to talk to villagers. I went to a village near Jaipur and was introduced to the sarpanch there... The sarpanch was a short young man, who drove a white maruti 800 and carried a cell phone. He was more than willing to take me around his village... I wanted to speak to some ladies in the village about whether the brand new highway next to their homes made any difference to their lives.The sarpanch....