by Chandrika R Krishnan | Jul 20, 2026 | Fiction
I was forty when I decided to end my marriage. Needless to say, everyone was shocked and wondered at my audacity in ending a twenty-plus-year-old marriage. But the fact was my marriage was a sham, a farce right from the beginning. I started disliking my husband a few...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Jul 17, 2026 | My Reviews, The world of printed words
I came across an article in Reader’s Digest that mentioned Earl Stanley Gardner had written eighty-two books featuring his lawyer protagonist, Perry Mason. At the time, I had the habit of maintaining a notebook with the names of every book I had read. Naturally,...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | May 15, 2026 | Fiction
“What? How could he just walk away after thirty years of marriage?”… Without his wallet or belongings? Mayuri sat surrounded by people, noises, and voices, yet nothing reached her. It was the fifth day since her world turned upside down. Did they fight? Was the...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Mar 26, 2026 | Some Learnings, Some Teachings
War stories, particularly of World War II, keep me both enthralled and horrified. I thought the human race had learned lessons from the dark times of our history, but alas, it is not so, going by the present state of affairs. Hence, the movie, White Bird- a Wonder...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Mar 19, 2026 | Some Learnings, Some Teachings
The term “Etymology” is the study of the origin of words. The practice of etymology is uncovering the truth by tracing the root of a word and its evolution thereafter. English as a language borrows heavily from other languages. These lexical borrowings or loan words...
