Some beautiful moments in life don’t have names. Unlike falling in love or becoming a parent or watching a sunset or spotting a shooting...

Seldom does a session with a psychiatrist begin with a reference to flight delays and air traffic snarls. But that’s how we begin our...

..When Your name becomes my breath, I realize yet again, that I am alive.. It’s been long since I stripped you of Your halo and brought...

The heart is closer to God than the mind. Hence surrender comes from the heart easily. Resistance comes from the mind. The mind is...

Do you know why we don’t find half the things we search for in life? Because we are looking for the wrong things. Often, in the wrong...

Ravi isn’t ‘mad’, I reiterated to myself. He is merely sick at heart, like people who are ill with other things.

You know, appa, I never believed you could ever go from the face of the earth.

It’s the day after Diwali, and I am remembering Michelle. She must be back in California now, after an extended tour of Europe with her...

‘Oktoberfest is nothing but a lot of beer,’ a friend had said to me before we left on our recent Bavarian sojourn. It was a dampening...

‘Struggle’ is a beautiful word, as I am beginning to learn. Like love – all pervasive, touching all creations, leaving indelible marks...

I have not learned to write. No one has taken me through the literary paces. I didn’t have literature growing in my backyard. My parents...

It is blazing hot here. The embers that are flaking from the skies are the kind that singed our indoor plants when they transited from...

It was a crabby day. My anger was unrelenting. It was stuffed in my throat and I wasn’t letting it find a vent. Held captive by my...

I stare at the screen, trying to fix my next round of Filter Kaapi. I don’t feel inspired to write a story. Speaking anything now seems...

For more than one reason, Vishu is my most favourite festive occasion. It unearths my dormant spiritual instincts, combines them with the...