I remember the morning after Mohammed Rafi's death in 1980. It was my turn to read the news in the school assembly and I remember preparing instead a small tribute to the singer and ending with the lines, “Jab Kabhi Bhi ...Read More
Ofcourse, you remember The Wonder Years, the television series (1988-1993) that gently nudged us back into the 60s, to the years of the first moon landing, the Kennedy saga, the Vietnam war filtered through the adolescence of Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage). You remember because the series captured ...Read More
I said I was going to do it before the season was over... so here I am, bearing the gift of my mother's Green Mango Rice recipe. The mango carts are now covered with Neelams (pretty and sweet, yet harbouring ...Read More
It was love at first sight. A instant romance. There they were; suspended from a high ceiling, covering the atrium with a riot of colour. The incredibly alive forms and their inner light instantly took me in. I couldn’t stop glancing back to take ...Read More
Uma Iyer has dreamt of Molu, a mischievous six-year-old for almost a decade now. She shares with the young readers of Unboxed Writers, ‘Meet Molu,’ a yet to be published first book of hopefully what would turn out to be a Molu and ...Read More
Simi Chachi made the best lotus root saag, hakh, and rajmah in Srinagar. Her kahwa was redolent with cardamom and rich with thin almond slivers. She was popular all over Kashmir – not just for her saag or kahwa. she ...Read More
Everyday, I die a little - for I haven’t told you everything
Everyday, I cry a little - for the beauty of you breaks me
Everyday, I battle with demons that haunt my unsleeping spaces
And pray to unseen gods who pull the ...Read More
Acclaimed cinematographer and film maker Thomas Michael Cowan is a man of truth. Of that moment when stiff pretences and masks are peeled off and the real person emerges. So he pays a sudden compliment. Caught off-guard, I react and he amusedly observes, “See? I get ...Read More
“Hello, it’s Diana this side."
This side of WHAT you may ask? “This side of the phone!"
When my office boy decided to drive me insane with his efficient inefficiency, one of his tactics was to wait until I had finished giving ...Read More
How does your morning start? Well mine goes something like this – chop, chop, chop, grind, grind, grind. I find myself racing with time to get to the finish line. To pack more things than time can do for me. ...Read More
“How do you wash your hair?”
“Hmmm, just like you wash yours Rashmi,” replied Nalina.
“Mine is thin and short; yours! Everyone at the wedding said it touches your bum.”
“Well, it’s a little longer than that,” said Nalina, gathering her bags crammed ...Read More
It’s easy to be superstitious. It provides us with the comfortable closure that we often look for. It’s easy to ascribe grandiose significance to numbers and dates that would otherwise only be notches in the general randomness of the universe’s ...Read More
