by Chandrika R Krishnan | May 3, 2021 | Musings & Moments
There is a scene in the 1989 Tamil movie Apoorva Sagodharargal (Hindi’s Appu Raja) where Kamal Hasaan quips “Pallu Kusarthu’ ( extreme sensitivity to the teeth – the closest translation sans the panache! ) as Gowthami learns to change gears while driving her...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | May 3, 2021 | Musings & Moments
(This was written quite sometime back and was published in Deccan Herald, when I was singularly unlucky with the home help…over the years, I have two wonderful souls in my life..who have made my life much better! With the pandemic, I guess we have learnt this...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 20, 2021 | The world of printed words
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 Reader’s Digest. A young school teacher smiles at a personable young man sitting opposite her on public transport. At his perplexed look, she...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 16, 2021 | The world of printed words
#bookreview There comes a time in the life of a writer , when a particular book makes her go all green with envy- a kind of byline induced envy! Radhika Acharya’s book The Funny side of it was one such. The very first chapter with her, Imagine, said John...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 14, 2021 | The world of printed words
When Hercule Poirot asks the young lady sitting in front of him why she wants to rake up a twenty year old murder case professing her mother’s innocence the lady says, ” My mother never tells lies and she tells me she did not murder my father.” Five...
