It is interesting how parents teach kids to hate and despise anything that hurts them rather than reason out that this too is a part of life.
While I waited for by delayed flight back home, I saw a child -two or three years ...Read More
Whoever said women were permitted only one act in a lifetime?
Do 20 extra kilos, scars of an invasive surgery, dental implants and some somnolent muscles mean you are done for in this life? Would it be fair to say that ...Read More
An ideal society should be class-less and caste-less, that is understandable, but is it right or even possible to build a society that has no family structure at all? What would be desirable – abolishing the family unit or a ...Read More
I have been watching the skin on the back of my mother’s hands very closely. In consonance with the changing texture and folds of skin, there has grown in my head a sketch of what it means to watch one’s ...Read More
The other day, I picked a fridge magnet that read; ‘Mirror mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all’. I liked the line; I liked the quirky design of the magnet. But most of all, the line hit ...Read More
My grandmother lived by one abiding dictum, “Daughters must never be left alone anywhere, overnight.” She was obsessive about Mom’s friends and rationed her rare friendly visits to the last minute. In fact, she is known to have chucked a ...Read More
"My son just doesn't listen to me. Every day we argue about petty things. I just don’t know how to handle that teenager of mine. Now I know what my mother must have gone through…..” was the frantic cry of ...Read More
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. ~ Bruce Barton
I met a few ...Read More
“What we really heal when we are intimate with someone is our relationship with our own self.” – Deepak Chopra.
Actually speaking the truth about my self is the most difficult thing to do since there is so much self righteousness ...Read More
My two-year-old daughter has been singing, “Sia.. Sia thi Japaani!’’
Sounds cute, eh? Not to my ears because the tune of the song she is warbling is not and cannot be music to a mom’s ears. Guessed it right! It is Sheela ...Read More
