Introducing Glow & Lovely
About 10 days ago, I shared with you here the news that the word “Fair” was to be dropped from one of the most pernicious products sold in India. Fair …
A gold Coronavirus mask, anyone?
Despite all my best efforts, I find I’m still fretting about this wretched, scary Coronavirus. I KNOW I can’t do anything to stop it, and that my constant checking of …
The half way point of 2020
Nothing like reaching the half-way point of The Year From Hell to make you stop and think, eh? The optimist in me likes to think that as we are about …
So now it’s just “ & LOVELY”
Cracking name for a skin whitening product, don’t you agree? “& Lovely.” Formerly known as “Fair & Lovely”, the word fair (with its pernicious message) in this skin whitening cream …
22 March – 22 June
Sitting here, on a grey, muggy, overcast morning, waiting for the monsoon to break (day after tomorrow, we are told) the People’s Curfew of 22 March seems a lifetime ago. …
Of peacocks and other such gorgeousness
I’m feeling simultaneously both overwhelmed by the news/underwhelmed by the words of our political masters. So I’m going to eschew any discussion of Coronavirus, or whether or not the Chinese …