by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 12, 2021 | Musings & Moments
My mother was a product of her upbringing. The stiff upper lip, a legacy of the British Empire, was left behind even after independence and it became the trademark of my mother’s parental home in Madras, which is now known as Chennai, a South Indian coastal city in...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 12, 2021 | My Books
What if shedding weight was as easy as adding them? A story of a woman watching the tree shed its leaves and flowers and wishes that she too had the ability to do the same to all her added girth…and voilà, the wood fairy has heard her. She loses weight and...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 12, 2021 | Musings & Moments
Whoever says that the present generation has it easy, must either be talking through their hat or to use the present day lingo, ‘be high!’ Being a 60s child, I believe that my life was a cakewalk compared to what these millennia are going through. I had no pressure...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 12, 2021 | Articles
Many of India’s middle-aged have become the sandwich generation, taking care of their elderly and the young. But what is it doing to them, especially the women? It was in the early 90s that I came across an ardent ‘foreign’ devotee at the Sri Sathya Sai Baba Ashram in...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 11, 2021 | A Slice of Life, Musings & Moments
When I came across a news item about a school requesting parents not to send lunch ordered via delivery apps, I was transported to my school days and my own romance with the lunch box. One of the highlights of my school days was, “What’s in my lunch box?” Well, I did...
