Fafda Files: Hello, Common Sense
Do we accept that there is no cure for stupidity and raise a glass to the ineptitude of a generation who epitomise ignorance is bliss? Laments Minoo Shah When stupidity …
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Fafda Files: Journalistic Savoir Faire?
Sycophancy in journalism endeavours to threaten the integrity of an esteemed institution, because just like any other profession, ultimately the buck stops at the conscience level of the journalist, opines …
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Fafda Files: Anger Management
This has been the new buzz term for the last decade. In all areas from work to family to interventions, legal professionals have made potfuls by just hissing Aaaaa Mmmmm …
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Fafda Files: The Gloves are off
Knock, Knock! Who’s there? The hollow recesses of your brain. Wake up! With no adequate rebuttal to the Knocker, my weary brain knocked at the altar of Adrenaline Knock, Knock …
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Fafda Files: My Inner Sleuth
Little did I know that my affection for crime movies and tv shows was in fact the calling of my inner sleuth. This novel epiphany came to me the day …
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Fafda Files: Down Memory Lane…
There were Dheeraj’s, Dhiren’s and Dhairyawan’s who crossed my path – an uncle, a bookie, even my own personal tailor but never the one and only inimitable Dhirubhai. Allow me …
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Fafda Files: Collusion
In the case of the Bird Feeder (Plaintiff) vs. the Squirrels (Defendants): Intrigue, Connivance, Complicity and Dubious, Dirty, Devious and Deceitful Deeds of the Squirrels that Plunder the Seeds rightfully …
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Fafda Files: Easter ‘Holi’-Day
Adults and kids were prancing around with war cries drowning out the Easter Bunny nursery rhymes which were competing with Bollywood renditions of “Holi Hein!” The netizens decided to put …
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Fafda Files: The Elephant in the Room
People’s lives much like honour or morals have ceased to have meaning. Have we gone mad? As a human race, have we forsaken civilisation? “Seven mass killings in seven days” …
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Fafda Files: System Management
I am not an Engineer, a Doctor, a Lawyer but the certificate hanging on my walls says Minoo Shah, MSM (Master’s in System Management). Put me in the category of …
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Fafda Files | Petty Please: Hari, Meghana & the Opurah Interview
Minoo Shah on the fairy tale that’s gone wrong. So, who’s living happily ever after? Once upon a time there was a red-haired prince named Hari who fell in love …
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Fafda Files: Cryptocurrency, the final frontier
Just go back to the time when you scoffed at emails replacing postal communication. Countries will forge their own cryptocurrencies except the standard will not be weighed against gold. Life …
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Fafda Files: Teachers
“To all my teachers, good, bad, worthy, or simple nuisances – I stand before you, head held high, a song on my lips and a wish – May all your …
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Fafda Files: Such is Life
I pray to God that he gives me the courage to accept that which I cannot change and the strength to embrace the inevitable. Even as we heaved a sigh …
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Fafda Files: From the Mouths of Babes
A snippet from a three foot nothing with their innocent query about things we take for granted, can bring a smile to a weather worn face. Be they grandkids or …
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Fafda Files: Ahoy, Senior! Who art thou?
Seniors come in every size shape and form. Who are you? Come on, indulge me! Or you are too much of an introvert to lay it all bare? Well, then …
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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: 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: I am not fat, my neighbour is thin
Would you ever give up ice cream in lieu of a few inches off your waist, wonders Minoo Shah One fine day sunlight came streaming through the trees, birds chirped …
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Fafda Files: Yuma Bubba
For some reason the mind had become apathetic and my reflexes took over giving me this brilliant idea, writes Minoo Shah, as she captures a ‘conversation’. With? Well, read on.. …
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Fafda Files: My Pet Peeves
Pothotles, WhatsApp chatters, Elections, Junk Mail, Facebook Freaks… these are a few of Minoo Shah’s peeves. Read on… Everyone has them and so do I.The degree of angst may vary …
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Fafda Files: Exams Begone!
I propose that formal education does not begin till age 12 (believe it or not, this was the norm in Southern India), let the kids be kids, writes Minoo Shah …
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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: I am Fickle
Ambiguity is a virtue best served with a thick skin, a slice of malice and a propinquity with the devil, writes Minoo Shah I was getting a lot of grief …
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Fafda Files: Felines Can be Bitchieees
Her name is Muki and just like her namesake and other partner in crime Naji, she is a terrorist. She came to us when she was merely three months old, …
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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: To be a Gujju Gal in the ’70s
A Gujju gal is born with a seventh sense called a laissez-faire attitude towards life, writes Minoo Shah This would require aplomb, certain savoir faire, a thick skin and pretty …
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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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