humour

This isn’t a biography, the author says in her prologue and technically it isn’t one. Yet, it deals with the life of Dr.…

As a Gen Xer, I thought my life was sorted until on a whim I joined two groups of fellow book lovers on…

  “I am tired of the bad press!  Drinking black coffee makes you a psychopath!” The coffee lamented. “Well, caffeine is definitely not something…

I burst into laughter remembering my  uncle’s comments a few days before his end.  “ Hey,” he said,  “I am a holy (…

I stood sleek and tall as the last of the nut and bolt was driven home. I occupied the pride of place in…

It was in late eighties. My father was looking out for a suitable alliance for the twenty-three-old me who was also a closet…

We walked into the din, too early for the previous train’s departure.  The steady announcement of departure and arrival of trains in three…

There is a scene in the 1989 Tamil movie Apoorva Sagodharargal (Hindi’s Appu Raja) where Kamal Hasaan quips “Pallu Kusarthu’ ( extreme sensitivity…

(This was written quite sometime back and was published in Deccan Herald,  when I was singularly unlucky with the home help…over the years,…

I have come to the conclusion that I would rather undergo a root canal treatment than to go shopping with my teenage daughter.…