by Chandrika R Krishnan | Mar 5, 2026 | Some Learnings, Some Teachings
Francis Bacon once remarked, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” What better way to chew and digest a book than marginalia? Throughout my school life, I had made do with second-hand textbooks. And if the...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Feb 26, 2026 | Some Learnings, Some Teachings
Who hasn’t gone into peals of laughter when someone slips on a banana peel? Fortunately, we outgrow this stage. But, maybe not. Particularly when a person whom we don’t like slips on the peel! Haven’t we been happy when someone overtakes us in a...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Feb 25, 2026 | Some Learnings, Some Teachings
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...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Feb 18, 2026 | Some Learnings, Some Teachings
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...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Feb 5, 2026 | Some Learnings, Some Teachings
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...
