Devika Ramarathnam had divested her Marapachi Bommais (dolls) off their tattered clothes hoping to engage in some DIYs restoring them to past…
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“Never criticise a man until you’ve walked a mile in his moccasins,” is an old (Red) Indian proverb. Today in the customer care…
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I have a thousand things to say to you and a thousand reasons not to… Are many adults caught in the predicament most…
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A acquaintance is the youngest of many children. Like Peter Pan, she was a girl who never grew up. Sandwiched between her well-meaning…
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Revisit the very famous, A Letter From Abraham Lincoln To His Son’s Teacher My son starts school today. It is all going to…
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When Basanti’s Mausi reminds the former to get mangoes for *achaar* in the film Sholay in 1975, she spoke for all the women…
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My story on Maavudu ( tender, baby mangoes pickle). It is said that the “precise location of heaven on earth has never been…
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Portfolios/Articles
From page to pan: Meenakshi Ammal’s cookbook ‘Samaithu Paar’ is an enduring classic
I was in my early 20s when I bade a tearful goodbye to my parents in Hyderabad and took the long train…
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I learnt a powerful lesson in life recently from a book. The protagonist talks about the five balls we juggle in our…
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In Konkana Sen sharma’s directorial debut Death in the Gunj, which released earlier this year, when a character says, “Ask your friend to…