>blogging universe – the new home!


>the  writeup dated 25th april, 2010 that is posted here is also posted on the “note” section on my Facebook account.  I am touched by the way people are writing about their experiences there – it is full of energy, talks about their angst, their sadness, their grief, their loss, their exhilaration, their need to break free, their desire, their aspiration and so many other emotions. someone wrote there that he feels my writing sometimes evokes and creates a collective shared space.  I was wondering perhaps that is what a blogging space is all about … to create a collective shared space for expression and relating of people who are otherwise not related .. across countries, across culture, across interests and professions, across gender … I follow various blogs on the net … blogs of men and women who regularly posts wonderful and moving stories about their lives along with cooking recipes and photograph, of grandmas who talk about the

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Ambition and women or is it about ambitious women (men)?


>What is it about ambitious women that sends the society in  a tizzy?   It sounds as though ambitions of women ought to be fulfilled through their near and dear ones, like through children, through husband, father, brother, etc but never for herself?  Take for example Sunanda Pushkar and the IPL row – columns and columns are being written about her and Tharoor’s relationship (how it matters to other people, i am yet to get a clue), about her ambition, her social climbing, including her plastic surgery, etc.  yuck, how low can we get? But if i were to take all the things that are written about her ambition and her “social climbing”, I can see a pattern that gets established between being ambitious and being a woman, that I am sure many women have faced and are facing in their lives.  I remember my corporate days when I used to be an aggressive marketing person and I was questioned

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