To Have No Breasts Breast ironing is the attempt to make young girls developing breasts disappear or suppress their development through the pounding, flattening, and messaging of their adolescent breasts with hot objects such as wooden pestles, hammers, spatulas, bananas and coconut shells that are heated over coals. View |
Five Years Later "I set foot on Bengali soil after half a decade on 25th March 2003 at 6:35 am. I breathed in the morning air, fresh as only Calcutta air can be. And that is when the first of the many unforgettable episodes began to unravel...". Rituparna Chatterjee chronicles her journey to the city of her birth, Calcutta. View |
The Things I Carry Before job interviews I always negotiate with my chest. While a woman asks me where I want to be in five years I look out her window at the invisible stars hiding behind bulbous clouds and daylight, but she’s still in my peripheral vision. A short personal essay by Adrienne Anifant. View |
Vibrational Pregnancy Deepti Datt runs AXiRVAAD, her restaurant and art gallery in Goa (which the New York Times cites as “legendary”), and writes and produces for television.“I’m a hustler, baby!” She is currently heading up the Events portfolio for Conde Nast in India and the launch of Vogue magazine in the country. This is also her EGO debut. View |
Chasing Dreams The taxis of New York City are, in some ways, an American institution. They are the fastest way to get around in the fastest city in the world, and they, much like the city, are in constant motion – relentlessly hustling for fares in a town that prides itself on hustling with the best of them. Mo Khan examines the life of the desi cabbie. View |
Saturday Afternoon Four EGO Editors - Ayesha, Sonia, Samar and Marko, spent Saturday afternoon drinking bloody marys, and chatting with Daniel and Elijah about the inexplicable sex appeal of mortgage rates, brilliant novellas about nothing, family dogs that die unexpectedly, and fathers who love deeply but are reserved about expressing it. View |
Auntie Naseeb Only 1% of the US population is Muslim, so if you've decided to date within the faith, you've already lopped off 99% of the people out there. Enter Auntie Naseeb: a robot auntie that tirelessly searches out people for you. Naseeb.com is perfect for those of us who are Muslim and looking for that perfect Muslim soulmate! View |
Flirting With Disaster On February 7, 2006 EGO sent two of its intrepid reporters, Omar Haneef and Sonia M., to a Flirteve Desi Speed Dating Event in Manhattan. With different outlooks and somewhat differing amounts of luck, the two write about their experience in this charming He Said, She Said account of the night. View |
My First Time: With Ms. Fox A young man's recollection of the pleasures of mastrubating to the delectable image of the sultry Samantha Fox. “I am doing what God wants me to do. My prayer each night is: Let me go my way and make people happy.” – Samantha Fox View |
Rumi and Shams Face to face stood two strangers: Rumi, a young scholar and Shams, a spiritual wayfarer with a penchant for the uncertain. The repercussions of each word spoken would reverberate through lyrical history forever. They met when both were ready --Shams to share; Rumi to seek; and both, to develop into a spiritual oneness. View |
