by Chandrika R Krishnan | May 17, 2025 | My Reviews, The world of printed words
This isn’t a biography, the author says in her prologue and technically it isn’t one. Yet, it deals with the life of Dr. NGK Sharma and the words flow with finesse from his daughter’s pen. Then what shall we call it? People tend to veer towards...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 18, 2025 | Fiction
He helped himself to the size-eleven shoes left outside the kitchen door of the farm house. He had just enough time to vault over the fence earning himself a deep scratch in his forearms before the dog managed to make a meal of his limbs. “I am getting soft!”...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Apr 11, 2025 | My Reviews, The world of printed words
I burnt the midnight oil for this book. This book isn’t a whodunit, nor is it a political thriller that spoke about espionage where I needed to know the culprit. Yet, this book of ordinary men and women kept me awake and I rested easy only once I...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Mar 27, 2025 | A Slice of Life, Articles, Musings & Moments
“The nature of life is not permanence but flux,” says Mr. Carson in one of the episodes in Downton Abbey, and coming from him who tries to retain the old order was so refreshing. Closer home, I find many of us reliving the old times quite nostalgically, particularly...
by Chandrika R Krishnan | Mar 20, 2025 | A Slice of Life, Musings & Moments
Way back in school, I had a teacher who broke our knuckles if we didn’t get our sewing right. I grew up with a mother who believed that hands are given to keep working. She was a great one at embroidery, sewing, painting and all sort of craft- making. Her...
