Category: Culture
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When You Discover Your Child Is Shoplifting
Akshita went to the shopping mall, taking along her son, Armaan, since there was none whom she could leave him with. Six-year-old Armaan loved to accompany his mother wherever she went and would often tag along. Being an only child, he was pampered by his parents. But of late, he…
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A Promise Of Faith
(Forceful religious conversions, making a spouse give up their personal faith in inter-religious marriages, is one of the very poignant issues, prevalent across our society since ages, which is what inspired me to come up with this fiction.) It was 5 pm. As the rickshaw took through the traffic jammed…
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Imperfect Couple But A Perfect Love (A Valentines Day Post)
It was six in the morning. The cook had already left, finishing his daily routine of preparing breakfast and lunch. Adarsh got up and silently tiptoed into the kitchen, so as not to disturb Vartika. He switched on the coffee kettle, packed his own and their five-year-old daughter, Raavi’s lunch…
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The Dilemma of Addressing our Mother Goddess Kaali…
Children often get into the habit of affixing a relation such as Aunty, Uncle etc., behind the name of every adult they encounter…or, in the Indian culture, so do we lead them to do that, in the process of training them to address everyone respectfully.. Yesterday night, when all three…
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R.I.P. Mr. Shashi Kapoor…
Writing on films or film personalities is something not commonplace with me… though I do like watching Bollywood movies sometimes but more than that I like to follow some personalities on the internet occasionally…should I say because these are people whom I have admired as I grew up watching their…
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The Pyramid Scare….
They went to explore the Egyptian pyramids and only once they stood before it, did they truly realise what ‘Magnificience’ was…dumbstruck by the overwhelming presence, they wondered how were they ever going to begin…it seemed too huge to even decide the starting point of their work. But it was only…
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