by Chandrika R Krishnan | Sep 26, 2025 | A Slice of Life, Musings & Moments
A well-placed elbow into the rib of the person next to her helped Asha get a foothold onto the bus. Well, it also fetched her some choice words that were better left unsaid. Asha pushed aside the fleeting guilt as the woman who bore the brunt of her jab was left...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Sep 17, 2025 | Fiction
I am situated at strategic crossroads yet common people ‘see’ me only when the GPS instructs them to take a turn at my location. And sometimes not even then. I am otherwise remembered on 14th April when I am spruced up and bird droppings are washed off me...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Jul 24, 2025 | Some Learnings, Some Teachings, The World of Printed Words
The story of a Pencil This is one of the short articles by Paulo Coelho which I find very inspiring. This parable of his taken from the book ‘Like the Flowing River’ is popular among my students and it has a lesson for all of us in there...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Jul 17, 2025 | Some Learnings, Some Teachings, The World of Printed Words, The World of visual delight
Last week, the nation was shocked when a young tennis star was shot dead by her father pumping four bullets into her back while she was in the kitchen preparing food- most probably for him as her mother was indisposed. His justification was that people in the village...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Jul 9, 2025 | Musings & Moments, Some Learnings, Some Teachings, The World of visual delight
A picture is worth a thousand words, goes a saying. I wonder what this short film of under 5 minutes would be worth? Do watch this video which was doing its round on WhatsApp though we had been using them in our sessions on empathy....
