I belong to Chennai, Tamil Nadu but my childhood was spent in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. I started my married life in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and presently live in Bangalore, Karnataka. My morning begins with a ritual where I sweep and mop the threshold...
“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...
I watched the recent movie, Mrs on Sony Liv. It is a remake of Malayalam movie, The Great Indian Kitchen. While I had already watched the original, I wasn't planning to watch the remake till I heard a whole lot of hoopla on that. Trolls and Memes galore on...
This was published way in Deccan Herald in 2018. Mindfulness was rather a new concept then. My sisters and I were somewhat of an anomaly in our maternal side. We grew up to a constant refrain that our hands should be busy rather than our mouth. We...
Oplus_131072 A rather popular Youtube influencer is currently facing backlash over his extremely crude and crass comment in the show India Got Latent and this backlash is reverberating even in the parliament. Not only the joke was in an extremely bad...
I was reading a collection of Ruskin Bond short stories. In one of them, a little girl visiting her grandmother runs across the road from the house to the fields as the unknown beckons her. As I was reading, I wanted to stop her from venturing out into...
A human brain is a versatile organ. “No computer can duplicate its myriad functions,” to quote Reader’s Digest. In spite of it we are assailed by forgetfulness, which proves to be sometimes very convenient. This temporary amnesia, which affects all of us from time to...
There was a recent article in Times of India in the aftermath of Pune Porsche case that we seem to be taking Yes- Parenting too far. When re-visiting some of my old articles, I realized that not much has changed from February 2017 to now. This piece published in...
It was a cold winter night in Lucknow. After I had managed to coax my toddler to bed, I settled under a quilt, cozy and snug, looking forward to some precious ‘me time’ with my book. This is when the doorbell rang to announce the arrival of my husband’s cousin, his...