I was in my early 20s when I bade a tearful goodbye to my parents in Hyderabad and took the long train journey to Lucknow. Straight out of college, I did not have the wherewithal to walk into ‘my man’s heart through his stomach,’ particularly when I found my...
I learnt a powerful lesson in life recently from a book. The protagonist talks about the five balls we juggle in our lives: work, family, friends, health and integrity. We keep most of them in the air, trying our best not to drop any. Work is the only ball that...
In Konkana Sen sharma’s directorial debut Death in the Gunj, which released earlier this year, when a character says, “Ask your friend to pick someone his size," it strikes a chord. Throughout the perceptively dealt thriller, the quiet, sensitive protagonist is...
"Make not your thoughts your prisons," Cleopatra was told. In the present day, people are guilty of not only locking the prison but also throwing away the key. We are still unable to comprehend the deaths of Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade and Bhaiyyu Maharaj, who seemed...