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English Vinglish is India’s answer to Shirley Valentine.    It is a must watch movie for every woman. Young and old, single and married. Every woman who goes to watch this movie may do well if she takes her man along. You never know, with some luck he may be able to relate to it. A touching and sensitive movie of a homemaker running a small home business of   making sweets( laddoos) and a seemingly happy family of Husband , two children and a mother in law. Sashi, the protagonist of the movie comes across as this selfless, naïve and innocent and ignorant woman that we all so easily associate mothers with. Beneath this stereotype of being the selfless homemaker lies this human being, whose emotional   needs are repressed and taken for granted   in the daily grind of serving her husband, a teenage daughter , a son and a mother in law. A solo travel to New York to arrange her niece’s wedding before her family comes over, her complete mess up   at a ...

  Chottu runs Bhavana general stores ,which is situated   round the corner from where we live. It is a decent sized grocery and general shop that sells everything that one would need to run a day to day   household   from milk to mosquito repellants all under one roof. Chottu’s uncles and relatives run many   grocery shops all around the city. When Chottu’s uncle invested in Bhavana general stores, the only customers around the place were construction workers who had pitched their tents and lived on the daily wages building out the apartments and houses in the vacant plots around the area. This could have been around 10 years back. Ours is a locality that has seen abundance of construction and new development in the last 3-4 years thanks to being close to the IT hub. The business model was simple. Staples like rice, wheat flour, oil and pulses were available in as little quantities as was required for two square meals a day till the next daily w...

Manjunath ( Photpgraph withheld to retain confidentiality) grew up and graduated from Hindupur near Anantapur.   His father owned   some land there that they cultivated . Ever since his father fell ill, they have leased out the land and live out of the income. Inspired by his grandfather’s words, Manjunath set out to Bangalore the city of prosperity and growth, 150 kms away from his home   to find a corporate   job. While at home he attended   V R Reddy’s spoken English classes where he learnt among other things practical life skills such as confidence building, how to answer interview questions , spoken English, the art of networking and making contact with high officials and such things.   After many failed attempts to get through an interview in the BPO companies in big bad Bangalore, despite all that education from Reddy Sir’s tutorials, Manjunath’s finances started dwindling.   Proud young man that he is, he could not take any ...