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AMUsING

ANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL is what the month has been so far. suggested we ought to have IBM franchised yoga classes... just because i can feel my back becoming a brick.. like tough old mutton meat.. still trying to get to bloody lal bagh to get some plants to grow in time for monsoon... hoping for a flower on my birthday been thnking abt my birthday.. which somehow always depresses me.. princess me been feeling hot under the collar, sleepy under the eyes, heavy at the heart and malaise in just being not unhappy with what is around me at this point, not quite happy when i think of all the things that should be around me conclusions from talks with various girlfriends the past couple of days - why women think marriage, men think promotion: women only think it cz no one bothers men abt marriage.. ppl bother women, ask them when it is gonna happen.. no body thinks to ask if it's even gonna happen. what it means to go out with a responsible man: an uphill task, liek tryin

MR IQBAL ANSARI

Labour minister Mr Iqbal Ansari has said that women need to be protected and it's un-indian for women to be working later than 8 pm. He's sent in a bill, that after being passed for review amongst all the oh so mighty mps in the parliament, might have just become a law. Were it not for his stupid (it can't be anything else really), comments on the bill, the large populace of working women, who themselves and well, their families that rely solely on their income would've not only been rendered jobless but also just plainly slapped in the face by a law that just saw modern, rising India take a retrograde step into the past. How would Mr Ansari know what is 'Indian', and what is not? Did he design Indianess? He's chosen to stick to his guns, insisting that women in India today do need to be protected, actively citing the Pratibha murder as fuel for his fire. If what he wants is to target the women of the BTO, BPO, IT sectors then, how come the Bill exempts thes