Dear Woman's Era- a tribute to you.. Review on Woman's Era

I am not sure of the changes that may have happened to the format of the 'dear old mag'(according to me as I don't read it anymore) but that wouldn't make my review on it any less better.......believe me.........i just want to discuss with you those days when I was an avid reader of 'Woman's Era'......

It wasn't long when I became an admirer of the unique qualities of the magazine.........(please don't mind my frequent ellipsis...oops I start it again.It just happens 'cos I am waddling in my past............)

I liked the articles,the stories and the features on teenache and personal column.The articles were mainly on etiquette,how to be a proper DIL with your SIL,BIL,FIL and on top of all, your MIL(i owe my gratitude to WE for teaching me these short terms of address).

Then there were travelogues and topics on festivals and friends..........i read WE when I was a teenager and the constant company improved my language skills to a great extent.

Among the features, I would say,i liked Hubbies Howlers the best.Apart from that, I faintly recollect some interesting features like My first day in college, My first day after marriage and also,How I met my husband!

Are these features still in the columns?Those days were like crazy when I waited impatiently for the magazine to fall at my doorstep and I remember an occasion when I picked up a good fight with the newspaper boy for not bringing the mag within the stipulated time.

BOMBAY FILMDOM was my favourite!i picked up the mag only to flick through the pages and arrive at my favourite 'hangout' with my darling bollywood starlets-believe me-i was an out-an-out failure with my GK in bollywood among my friends and look what WE did to me!i was a walking dictionary in no span of time.......!

How I dote on you WE!

As I mentioned before,i was a budding teenager in those days and naturally I was attracted to the highly personal columns of teenache and personal column.To tell the truth, I found some of the problems quite made up and unbelievable,but I continued to relish reading them......

I am not a feminist and I don't hate feminists.WE was meant for women in particular but I found some men read them as well,i appreciated the fact.

As I grew older the mag lost its hold on me........it started off with a despise on the pictures on the mag.....heavily decked up faces and a vulgar way of dressing........then I got bored with the stories.......and the lack lustre articles that talked about the same topic each time...and so on and so forth.

Probably this sounds like an anticlimax to the whole idea expressed........but let me put it in a clearer way.........once upon a time I liked the magazine and I would definitely recommend it to all the women and men of india.As far as my loss of interest is concerned, I think, it was a case of familiarity breeds contempt...........or perhaps a little decline in the standard of the mag then which I hope would have been rectified