Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world Four movies that I had seen last week made me remember the above…
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Malathi looked ruefully at the pictures posted by her maternal cousin Menaka accompanied by a whole slew of hashtags: #makingmemories#mylove#holdiay2019#lifeisbeautiful#grateful. A tiny, weeny emotion in…
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Aarti sat dry eyed, watching from the window the swirling clouds as the plane steadily lost its height as it approached the city…
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The police came The postmortem done, pregnancy confirmed Relatives poured in Neighbours gawked Leaving us wounded with multiple Whys. Visions of….. You…
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I have been reading many books by new writers on Kindle of late and Aspen Leaves by Dhivya Balaji caught by fancy. …
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I chanced upon this book and felt that I was holding a bouquet of flowers. Though, I started at the beginning with the…
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There is a scene in the 1989 Tamil movie Apoorva Sagodharargal (Hindi’s Appu Raja) where Kamal Hasaan quips “Pallu Kusarthu’ ( extreme sensitivity…
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(This was written quite sometime back and was published in Deccan Herald, when I was singularly unlucky with the home help…over the years,…
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As I finished re-reading the thin volume of Good-Bye Mr. Chips, I remembered one of the unforgettable jokes that I had read in…
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#bookreview There comes a time in the life of a writer , when a particular book makes her go all green with envy-…