Welcome to my Musings over a cup of tea
Thank you for stopping by. This blog is everything from Mundane to the Serious and all things in between. Though fiction is my forte (I am leaning towards bite-sized micro-fiction of late), I do dabble in poetry, though I call myself a reluctant poet. I love to share my thoughts on life, philosophy, the English language, and last but not least, give some unsolicited advice. The last comes rather too easily, having been a teacher and a parent and all that, I want to tell my wards and children, I write!
-Chandrika R Krishnan
About Me
I am a Bengaluru-based writer and educationist and like all things beginning with a ‘T’ – talking, teaching, tales and tea. I consider myself a late bloomer ..so late that even to date I can say I am only partially unfurled. My articles are mostly on what I want to tell my adult children but don’t dare! On a serious note, I like learning and I do most of them through observation. I also feel that we all are better equipped to handle other people’s problems than our own so I am able to write about varied happenings around me.
I also volunteer at a local hospital and also at a Seva centre that feeds the poor. I take storytelling sessions for underprivileged and try to help them with academics.
recent posts
Thriving on the Shock Value – An article
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...
All for thirty -seconds of Fame- A flash fiction
Swiping left to right and back again, Sailesh was in a quandary. This decision-making caused him more distress than the outside temperature of 45° C. Here, he was seated in his bedroom sweating over which reel he should upload first- the one where the train...
The Date with Fate- A free Verse
He came home dripping wet, to a mother’s happy sigh. Relieved to see her family back in her coop, Safe from the pelting rain and the howling squall, Though, bringing much-needed relief to the scorching land. And just as suddenly, he found himself pinned to the ground,...
The Frenetic Ferris Wheel- A Humour piece
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...
The world we miss today
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...
And Then it Was Done- A short Fiction
Place: The mythological museum - Gopalapuri As I stood in front of a very realistic portrayal of Baby Krishna, opening his mouth to reveal the universe within, I was instantly transported to Dwapar Yuga. I was taking my time visiting the mythological open-air...