Overall rating: 4/5 This play is an easy read with a good enough plot but there is a lot more to it than just a family story. Set in the 1950s, the play explores gender roles, parental negligence, crushed hopes, unfulfilled ambitions and societal expectations. There is this one dialogue that really caught my attention, "A woman in a man's world is considered progressive, but a man in a woman's world is considered pathetic." It perfectly captures the double standards around ge

Awful Auntie The book is a fascinating deep dive into the psychological profiles of aunties, both local and global. Through this book, the author raises the following questions: What makes aunties aunties and what makes them awful ones? What is the threshold at which an aunty no longer remains just an aunty but crosses the border into being an awful one? The author has done a lot of research (there are detailed footnotes and sources) and dug into the past to extract a wealth