Shah Rukh Khan’s outburst at the cricket stadium and the consequent ado by people became big news. I was asked what I felt about it by some news channels. And it was only then that I sat to analyse anger, temper and what it has to do with being right or wrong.

A disappointed crony confided in me about her disillusionment with her close friend. “I hadn’t allowed myself to see the flaws, assuming that they’ll go away. So what does one look for in a good, abiding friend? One that doesn’t become a liability, but is a source of succour and joy?” she asked me. That set me thinking.

Friendship and camaraderie in a marriage can blow away the biggest storms that a relationship goes through. You just sail though tumultuous rocky weather without imminent shipwreck. Madhur Bhandar-kar is a great example of this. Severe allegations and court cases thrown at him by a struggling starlet through the last few years didn’t dent his fortress.

Salman Rushdie has been making news with his typical tongue-in-cheek wit. In Mumbai to release his film, Midnight‘s Children, I was keen to hear his views on myriad issues blazing in the media. What took me by surprise was his interesting insight into partnerships and handling the sometimes conflicting ideas that partners run into when working together.

Just yesterday I wore an Alexander McQueen backless dress and felt beautiful in what was a most ingeniously created work of art. It must take a beautiful mind to have conjured up this concept and then constructed it. My mind began to ask what made this acclaimed creative genius, who was said to be worth twenty million pounds, commit suicide at 45 at his stunning two million pound flat in Mayfair in central London.

At a cocktail party at which Nobel laureate Shimon Peres, President of Israel, was present, I was anticipating a chat about politics, technology and where the world was headed. All that did get discussed before the end of the evening.

What happened to the friends you stood and stared with? What about the ones you met because you wanted to ‘hang out’ with them for no reason but that you liked each other? You may not have ‘loved’ each other instantly but grew fond of over time.

Sanjay Khan’s wife, Hritik Roshan’s mum-in-law, Zahid Khan’s mother — she is all this, but it comes later. Zarine Khan was a model who went on to become a personality on her own terms. I’ve always noticed how she stood apart from the noise, metaphorically speaking.

Life investments come before marriage goals Is sex an expression of love? You don’t just fritter away ‘love’ as a man-woman thing. Sex is as intense an expression of the emotion love, and as selective and exclusive as that rare feeling you have for the one person. When such a state is reached, it is natural to think of it on the basis of ‘happily ever after’.

You wake up and you BBM your lover. The last thought you sleep with is that intimate moment you just shared. And then boom, when you least expect it, it’s all gone. You’ve split up, you are no longer dating or married or together. It has ended. It is bitter. You hate each other more than anyone else in your life.