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Malls – a mini city! Few weeks back, I went to JC Penny, located in a mall near our house. I bought a dress and stood in the long line to make the payment. When I was leaving the store, I realized that I also wanted to buy a new pair of jeans for my toddler. I quickly picked up one (fortunately or unfortunately the apparel and accessory options for boys is very limited) and headed towards the payment counter. This time there was an even bigger line for check out. I waited for 10-15mins and realized that there was some problem with one of the customer’s loyalty card and hence it was taking that long. I gave the jeans, I had picked up, to one of the salesperson (luckily I found her nearby – this is very rare) and left the store without buying it. I was already late, so did not have a lot of time to stand in the queue. Later I bought a jeans online at a much lower rate, which also looked a lot better than the one I had chosen before.  Online shopping is definitely very convenien

In the past few days there has been a lot of bashing and dissection of the Vogue Deepika video. For or against the arguments were thought provoking. The concept ‘My Choice’ got me thinking…and many of us thinking. It encouraged many of us to talk about gender equality, have debates and discussions on women empowerment and that is where the video did a great job. Now I want to talk about a related topic and not the video. I want to talk about how society judges the same choices made by a woman versus a man. Momentarily let us forget what is right and wrong but I feel that the society willingly condones a particular choice made by a man and criticizes the same the choice made by a woman. There are a few exceptions for this but then there are exceptions for everything. Let us look at some of these examples.. 1)       A woman comes home late from work. She lies on the couch watching TV. She does not cook or clean the house. She asks her maid to look after her kids and put them to