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USO stories are first-hand reports from the frontline. These are everyday stories of love, laundry, work, life, and the world.
Running shoes are a woman’s best friend…..
“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world, this is what Marilyn Monroe said, but better still give the woman a pair of running shoes and she will discover herself! I hate pears!...
The Big M in a woman’s life (Statesman)
Single, taken or attached, whatever the status, the milestone of the 50th birthday is a turning point in every woman’s life and most often she enters it unprepared. As a woman, the society prepares...
Pressure cooked’ (Statesman – 18th March)
‘Thank you world, but there is no room for a further crisis the diary is full’. There are days when we feel that someone has poured our life into a blender and pressed ‘puree’……we stop existing in...
Just shoe It Folks!
You know, how we always have those pair of shoes, ones which are so durable, so black, so flat and so sturdy that we can wear it to the end of the world and back but they would never ever wear out....
Greener Pastures
Being sent on an assignment to this part of the world you are a part of the growing Non Resident Indian population here in U.K. which forms nearly 3% and approximately half a million of the total...
What’s in your cart?
It has to occur atleast once every week, that ritual trip to the local grocery store where you find yourself blinking under the fluorescent lights, thousands of products seducing you into...
Calcutta in me! for all those like me who are far away…….
I was born in Calcutta, and have spent 27 years of my formative years in the city. The last few years that I have been away, I have always heard people saying- that it is a struggle to adapt to the...






