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...
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...
I have heard people say, “You are such a brave person! So confident, so sure of yourself.” Am I? I wonder. I often enough let it slide by. For I have found people like to believe what they want to. I don’t think I was ever a brave person. My heart pounds away at the...
A well-placed elbow into the rib of the person next to her helped Asha get a foothold onto the bus. Well, it also fetched her some choice words that were better left unsaid. Asha pushed aside the fleeting guilt as the woman who bore the brunt of her jab was left...
A picture is worth a thousand words, goes a saying. I wonder what this short film of under 5 minutes would be worth? Do watch this video which was doing its round on WhatsApp though we had been using them in our sessions on empathy. [video width="400" height="226"...
This story is one of my personal favourites and comes in handy while taking a session on perception. The story of a window... A couple of days after a young couple moves neighbourhood, the woman looks out the window of her dining room as they are having their...
“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...
Way back in school, I had a teacher who broke our knuckles if we didn't get our sewing right. I grew up with a mother who believed that hands are given to keep working. She was a great one at embroidery, sewing, painting and all sort of craft- making. Her...
As a Gen Xer, I thought my life was sorted until on a whim I joined two groups of fellow book lovers on Facebook and all of a sudden, I feel like the female version of Sisyphus. It wasn’t too long when I concurred with Sir Isaac Newton, though in a completely...