“Prince Maggi Tessa?” asked My Little Boy

“Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl called Cinderella and she had two ugly stepsisters…..”
“Amma,” my little boy interrupted before I finished reading the first line of his first fairy tale.
“Bootifu? Huggy?” he wanted to know what ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’ meant. It was a difficult subject to deal with a kid, so I just pointed to the Cinderella and her stepsisters in the picture as I said ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’.
I was sure he wouldn’t get what they actually meant. In fact, I didn’t want him to.

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Beauty: Evolving and Revolving!

‘Nandhini, if you wouldn’t take it personal, I have to make this comment about people of Tamilnadu’. ‘Yes?’ ‘Man, what’s beautiful to those oldies out there?’ ‘???’ ‘The old people admire and appreciate the beauty of some girls. Well, you know how those beauties were! Of dark complexion, some were really pitch-black! Old-fashioned dressing….oiled and…

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