Finding A Way

There is a chaos in my schedule. Even though I am the first one to wake up and the last one to sleep, I find practically no time to what I want to - Write. It can't be blamed on any one person or thing. It is me. I have been trying to complete a...

How Can This be the Will of God?

VIOLATED! Our right to live is no more in the hands of God, it has been taken away my those who think they have the right to kill in the name of God/Religion & even Politics. Hundreds of people died yesterday - men, women & children. Where is the list of their karma, to decide...

Birthday Wisdom

There are greens and there are blues, you can be green with envy or you can be a melancholy blue, such is the effect of birthdays as the years pass by forget the pinks & blues of childhood, they are long past history.  These are serious colours which make and break our relations. We hope,...

Chai & Chirping – A Morning in Mukteshwar

5:15 a.m. The morning alarm is yet to sound off and I open my eyes to the call of the Whistling Thrush. I tiptoe into the patio only to find it occupied by my busy grey friend, hopping around, working its way through the morning drill. Not having a heart to disturb it's routine, I...

Worth the Wait

Rummaging through memories, hidden somewhere deep within, I wander through the by lanes of my being. I am not really the one I was but I cannot completely change. Every time I look at my son, I realize how every bit of a person he is... but somewhere he is me. I am a very...

Stupid Cupid – No April Fool For A Forty Something Woman

Don’t know whether I should call it ironical or coincidental that the much celebrated month of March highlighting Women’s Day closes with the onset of April Fool’s Day! Welcome to the mayhem in my mind regarding Women’s Liberation and the Modern Indian Women. Trust me when I say, I was the atypical feminist all set...