The Rebelle blog

Penguin publishers first came up with a set of 80 books in 2015. Then, they published more and now the boxed set of poetry/prose/short stories has gone to 120. Today, on Instagram, while admiring another fellow reader's Little Black Books (LBB) collection, I lamented how in Indian currency the box set is still expensive. She gave me this wonderful idea to ship it from Book Depository and I promptly looked up the website. To my utter disappointment, Indian Currency transactions don't exist. There's Indonesian Rupiah but not Rupee. I got so excited at the prospect of seeing an entire boxed set for affordable prices, and would have bought the entire set but alas! These are just some disappointing moments and yet there are far greater trivial issues we need to address. One of my closest friends is miserable and battling depression. She texted me about symptoms and the likely causes she's experiencing this. I hope to be able to help her out of this self-imposed misery....

Marriage woes everywhere! Indian TV shows suffer from a serious case of a lack of originality and good story-telling! Why? Its apparent after viewing every single show aired on TV these days. Every fictional show concentrates on and keeps revolving around married lives of its protagonists! Even historical shows are no exception. Is there a dearth of literature that the Creative heads choose to show the same things over and over again in the name of entertainment? Why do people watch TV shows? To get some respite from the chaos of their daily lives and what do they instead get to see? Same frustrations and loud, trashy dialogues and scenes which not necessarily even imitate the real life. Some shows with despicable depictions of negative characters and arguing mothers-sons-daughters-in law are a disgrace on our rich culture. Young children who watch TV have nothing educational to derive from the variety of channels. Instead, all they see is Reality TV shows which have the worst possi...