Revisit the very famous, A Letter From Abraham Lincoln To His Son’s Teacher Based on the above, here is my satire on Abraham Lincoln’s very famous letter to his son’s headmaster. A note to my Son’s teacher Dear Teacher, My son would have learnt by now that all men are...
When Basanti’s Mausi reminds the former to get mangoes for *achaar* in the film Sholay in 1975, she spoke for all the women before her and after. Mangoes have come to symbolize the coming of summer. It is the season of romance and abundance when everything is in bloom...
My story on Maavudu ( tender, baby mangoes pickle). It is said that the “precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here.” I believe that it’s amidst heat, dust and mangoes. Our grandparents’ house in the then Madras...
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...