My friend, who has recently re-entered the dating scene and is often contemplating poking people with safety pins, told me she bought a sex toy, which, unlike many phallic objects marketed to women, is very specifically tailored to provide āunique suction technology that mimics the mouthā with āten different speeds and patternsā. She sings its praises in the way I did after visiting the home of an elderly artistic couple in Bhopal. I have two memories of that trip. One, that everyone we asked on the street knew where all the Bhopal museums were. Two, every dinner at the friendās home had decadent mutton dishes. What made it unforgettable is that as we sat on the sofa with our warm plates on our knees and eyes on the next serving, each of us was handed slim silver objects, slightly longer and thicker than a toothpick. To poke the marrow out of the bones! I was so pleased at this sign of a highly developed civilisation that understood your personal suction technology was not always effective enough to get the tasty bits out.
Nisha Susan, āWho needs the X app, give me a bone marrow spoonā, Mint Lounge
