My dad, an inveterate tea drinker, made my mother climb the wall with his constant clamors for many a cup during the day and something to go with the afternoon cuppa. Grumbling that she too was growing old, she nevertheless made him ‘the last cup for the day’ and...
I looked at the colourful lump oozing sticky tears from within a tiny plastic cover. With suspicious trepidation, I prodded it with a ruler–the fourth one I found in a matter of four minutes, some fourteen years after my children passed out of school! I heaved a sigh...
“Hey Pushpa, I hate tears,” said Rajesh Khanna, and the hearts and knees of girls and women aged between 8 and 80 turned mushy. I really don’t know what Rajesh Khanna would have said to me if he'd known me. Still, my sisters swore they would never, ever come with me...
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...