Welcome to my Musings over a cup of tea
Thank you for stopping by. This blog is everything from Mundane to the Serious and all things in between. Though fiction is my forte (I am leaning towards bite-sized micro-fiction of late), I do dabble in poetry, though I call myself a reluctant poet. I love to share my thoughts on life, philosophy, the English language, and last but not least, give some unsolicited advice. The last comes rather too easily, having been a teacher and a parent and all that, I want to tell my wards and children, I write!
-Chandrika R Krishnan
About Me
I am a Bengaluru-based writer and educationist and like all things beginning with a ‘T’ – talking, teaching, tales and tea. I consider myself a late bloomer ..so late that even to date I can say I am only partially unfurled. My articles are mostly on what I want to tell my adult children but don’t dare! On a serious note, I like learning and I do most of them through observation. I also feel that we all are better equipped to handle other people’s problems than our own so I am able to write about varied happenings around me.
I also volunteer at a local hospital and also at a Seva centre that feeds the poor. I take storytelling sessions for underprivileged and try to help them with academics.
recent posts
Delving into Etymological Mystery – Season 2- Part 3
When I learned that the word rife had appeared in 276 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, I did a deep dive into its use. That is when I came across the sentence: English is rife with words that have been handed down to us from Old English—among...
Delving into the Etymological Mystery – Season II, Part 2
The metro zipped over the familiar names and not-so-familiar names. When my father and his colleagues from AG’s office built his house in Yousufguda, Hyderabad way back in the 70s and for the next decade or so, we shared space with some goats and cows...
Delving into the Etymolgical Mystery – Part 1 Season II
I recently watched the latest Harlen Coben series, Run Away, on Netflix. In the series, the father, while searching for his young runaway daughter, accidentally meets her in a park. While he is chasing her to get her back and see sense, her boyfriend stops him, and...
When wishes come True- A flash Fiction
“Just stop this and get working!” The static air buzzed next to her ear! Caught in the Act, Shilpa’s heart leapt up to be enmeshed somewhere near her oesophagus. Her heart pounding, she guiltily closed her tab on Kunal’s Instagram page. The familiar flush started at...
Think Out of the Box
Once a little boy went to school. One morning The teacher said: "Today we are going to make a picture." "Good!" thought the little boy. He liked to make all kinds; Lions and tigers, Chickens and cows, Trains and boats; And he took out his box of crayons And began to...
Call of the Heart
“It’s remarkable that none of us know more about her daughter…absolutely no idea where she stays, her number …nothing…. zilch!” Lakshmi was upset and rightly so that one of the residents of her ‘home’ was suffering from a stroke which led to coma and none of...