‘Happy Durgashtami.’ The messages have been coming in steadily since morning. It is a day of celebration for Hindus all over the world. A...

A book launch is an event of great significance for any author. Every single time, like a new mother, it puts the author in a cauldron of...

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...

My 10 O' Clock flowers have been out of sorts, of late. They have been dormant for several weeks now. It is if they have suffered a deep...

So finally, I have checked the Covid box and become part of modern history. Not as a witness, but as a survivor. By now, a sizeable...

Buying a present has always been a vexing task for me. The tedium starts from a preliminary question – Is it necessary? Although the...

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who was afraid of flowers. Yes, that sounds like a stretch, but there are verified accounts of...

Back in my time, the growing years of a girl entailed being a part of household chores as a practice. (Since this is not a gender-bender...

Loneliness is a cruel companion. It accosts those who crave it, initially as sweet solitude, taking time to grow on them and then like a...

If there is one thing that can make us feel more alive than others, If there is one thing that can make us relevant to all times, If...

My mother is a very orthodox lady. A lady whose childhood was spent in the confines of a large family and its conservative diktats....

I am a late bloomer of sorts. I entered puberty much after my classmates did, got married after most of them had had their first child; I...

The first time I visited Delhi after the Nirbhaya case, it was as if I had touched down on a landmine filled area. The very atmosphere...

I remember walking around the Lal Darwajah market in Ahmedabad on a blistering afternoon several years ago, filing past the riotous...

Many things have apparently changed in India in the two years I was stubbornly stationed in Dubai skirting my Covid fears. One of them is...

And then there are those who love a good contest. Stiff competitions are what keep them pumped. Not me. I say this neither with conceit...

These days, strangely, the sun doesn’t set. It merely melds into a haze, smudging the horizon with its veiled presence for a while before...