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...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 10, 2021 | A Slice of Life, Musings & Moments
My friends and I were in our revolting tweens and snickered at a woman who regularly spoke and gestured to herself in shop windows, as we waited for our school bus. A teacher happened to notice and chastised us, one fine day. She said, that the woman must have had...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 10, 2021 | Musings & Moments
There is something in a train journey that has fascinated a lot of people and I am one of them. Maybe, it has to do with stories like the “The Little Engine That Could,’ that I had read when I was a child. It could also be Ruskin Bond’s tales on trains and tunnels or...
