Fafda Files: My ‘Funda’
Takes you back on the memory train, to those college days when the word ‘Funda’ spoken in different tones could mean anything from – ‘how was your day’, to ‘what’s …
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Fafda Files: Adios 2020, Aloha 2021
In as much as I sense a majority of the population lamenting the forced lifestyle change in 2020, it grossly misrepresents a minority formally referred to as ‘the elderly’. I …
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Fafda Files: Christmas 2020
As Diwali is to India, Hanukkah is to Israel, Kwanzaa is to Africa and Eid is to Islamic Nations – Christmas given the time of the year is more of a …
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Fafda Files: Ha Ha Happy Thanksgiving
The key phrase of the evening being, ‘Arre yaar, let bygones be bygones, writes Minoo Shah As the word suggests, it’s all about thanking and on this side of …
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Fafda Files: Classism vs Racism
Anthropologists have confirmed that the natural evolution of living species is in a continuum, writes Minoo Shah Ashley Montagu 1 in his infinite wisdom while reading stories of his ancestor …
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NRIs: Happy in their New Home
Non-Resident Indians have accepted the country they immigrated to as their home and are comfortable visiting India occasionally, writes Minoo Shah Why do Indians who left India not wish to …
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Fafda Files: The NRI, Zeus & the US Presidential Elections
Fifty-odd couples are coming for dinner on November 3 to watch the vote countdown of the Presidential election and caterers have been informed not to chug a few or do …
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Fafda Files: Grandparents for Rent
Grandparents for Rent is now a booming business with exponential growth due to the throes of demand and seniors all over are guffawing with laughter, writes Minoo Shah The …
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Fafda Files: Spicy Indian Food! How Dare you??
A concerned father threw a fit when he heard that his son was served spicy Indian food at a friend’s home. Minoo Shah plays devil’s advocate and speaks for the …
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Letter from US: Have Moolah, Get a Doolah!
The spotlight may be on Indian matchmaking, but it’s a much deeper game. Minoo Shah has the goods And you thought marriages were made in heaven and that God donned …
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Fafda Files: Gasp! What the Fatakdi?!
What happens after one marriage party decides to molest another in full view of the guests. Minoo Shah was a fly on the wall and narrates a true story of …
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Fafda Files: Howdy, Houston!?
Amidst all the sensational news, Houston continues to hold a steady rank as a city with the highest surge of coronavirus and the least available hospital beds, writes Minoo …
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Fafda Files: Bubs and Bai
What has relegated this otherwise shrew of a woman with a soul of a banshee into a cowering shadow of her former self, wonders Minoo Shah Nostalgia of a Mumbai …
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Fafda Files – Life is a Box of Chocolates
At work, the white masters saw us as different shades of brown, a box of chocolates if you will, writes Minoo Shah. To the Anglo-Saxons, white is not just a …
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Fafda Files: Class of ’70
Where Minoo Shah prescribes attending class reunions and as one plays catch up – each one sounds shrilling louder than the other Class reunions and why I advise them. Have …
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Fafda Files: Come into my Parlour, said the Spider to the Fly
As an ‘overwhelmed’ Bollywood mourns the death of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, there are more Sushants, Divya Bhartis and Marilyn Monroes on their way to glamourland, writes Minoo Shah …
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Bollywood – An NRI Obsession
Introducing a new weekly column by Minoo Shah where she will present her unique take on life of the Nouveau Riche Indians. Enjoy As a teen, I identified with Jaya …
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How the George Floyd murder has shaken the ground beneath Indians in USA?
We are jolted into remembering that we too have been victims of the same white privilege and it may not be long before one of our own may be the …
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