The Uncensored Household
I started reading Nancy Mitford and took an interest in her after hearing about her on the BBC Radio 4 Great Lives programme. She sounded so wonderfully witty, sharp and unsentimental that I decided to buy a few of her books.
The Pursuit of Love is a as much as finding love as it is about celebrating the love that an extended family can bring. If you are lucky enough
I read today that Grazia magazine admitted to digitally slimming the Duchess of Cambridge for the cover of their Royal Wedding edition. The article written in the Guardian touches on a number of celebrities who have fallen prey to the digital retouching as if it isn’t common practice.
Vena Ramphal has an unusual career for an Asian woman and has created her own niche as a sex expert and passion coach. She holds one to one sessions, workshops, salons at high end erotic boutique Coco De Mer and is quoted in a number of magazines including GQ and can be followed on twitter @VenaRhampal.
Her workshop “Tearing Up the Good Girl Script” epitomises Vena as she believes that women spend too much of their time pleasing and being good girls when they should be focussing their energies on being happy.
This months Hall of Fame was conducted with BBC Asian Network Producer, Baljit Sidhu who currently produces the primetime Sonia Deol Show. Baljit left Leeds University with a degree in English Literature and History of Art in 2001 unclear of which career path to take. However, the events of September 11th made her determined to work in the media and in 2002 started in at BBC Asian Network.
“So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye, I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye, good bye”.
The above lyrics are from the Sound of Music, but they could well have been said by Oprah Winfrey yesterday as she hosted an hour long emotional final show. I haven’t watched Oprah in years, but even I was rather sad at the thought that after 25 years, the Oprah Winfrey Show would be no longer.
Born in India, brought up in England and disowned by her family for her beliefs, Rachel Beer was the first female editor of a newspaper at a time when women didn’t even have the vote.
Her remarkable story as editor of two of the most celebrated newspapers (The Observer and The Times) and plight of being a successful woman in the late 19th century can be read in “The First Lady of Fleet Street” by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev.
A year ago I was told of a bride who had to cancel her wedding because she was on her period. A year long preparation had to be called off at the last minute. The poor groom was left standing. The brides family were extremely religious and believed that a girl could not go under the Mandap (Hindu wedding alter) when she was menstruating, it was bad luck and the marriage would be doomed.
It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday and as this is a forum for women, it is only appropriate to acknowledge mothers everywhere and create our own wish lit.
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