I belong to Chennai, Tamil Nadu but my childhood was spent in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. I started my married life in…

Parenting Unplugged by Lalitha Ramanathan- A Book Review Image from Amazon. I picked this book up only for the author Lalitha Ramanathan, a…

    I wrote a letter to my mother. That it hurt me to be the second-best, To my brother. I tucked away…

I have heard people say, “You are such a brave person! So confident, so sure of yourself.” Am I? I wonder. I often…

In 2020, The Chrysanthemum  Chronicles ran a contest on the theme Shakespeare Heroine Resurrected. I chose Lady Macbeth ( Act 5- scene 1)…

A well-placed elbow into the rib of the person next to her helped Asha get a foothold onto the bus. Well, it also…

I am situated at strategic crossroads yet common people ‘see’ me only when the GPS instructs them to take a turn at my…

  The story of a Pencil   This is one of the short articles by Paulo Coelho which I find very inspiring. This…