Do you have people in your life who you have watched from afar and secretly adored? The cricketer or the film star or a celebrity or the Neighbour next door. A person you have watched in real life or reel and wished you have that kind of talent? Wished you…

The court verdict didn’t come as a surprise to me at all. Ah, we know it all too well, don’t we? For those privileged enough to stay away from the daily news and thus haven’t heard about this issue, here is what happened. A few girl children were banned from…

Jonathan Liew wrote this about Shane ‘the wizard’ Warne “I love that he wasn’t perfect and most of all I love that he never tried to be” This got me thinking about the eternal pursuit of mankind, ‘perfection’ and does it indeed come in-between happiness? I’m the happiest when I…

Death hits you hard like nothing else can. When my Mom died, even after a prolonged sickness giving me enough time to absorb, it hit hard. Memories come haunting by. Many nights I just stared at the ceiling with her images flying by the innermost heart. Memories! Ah, memories. …

The church asked the women in the congregation to stand up to pray for them; I closed my eyes and thought of all the women in my life! As I closed my eyes, my thought went back to the day when I told my mom that all my favourite people…

This lady ‘X’ had been married when she was 17. After having multiple children the husband left her to fend for herself. ‘X’ married off her eldest daughter when she was in her teens. The eldest daughter’s husband left her after giving her two girl children. Now 62, ‘X’ along…

1990! I wake up. Look around for him. He is in his usual place. Easy chair, newspaper in hand. The brown lungi, without a shirt. I walk up-to him. He keeps the newspaper to the side. He takes me onto his lap. My routine till I was five. Perhaps even…

So, did you all like 2021? Did you? Did I like 2021? Come let us relive my year. I’m just letting my thoughts flow over; 2021 was a year like that; Like a river that ebbed and flowed. Yet through it all, His grace was sufficient! What can you say…

“You are a true Indian”, the friend commented. He even gifted me a T-shirt with the “India loves you” tag on it. I wore it proudly around. I was a young boy with fantasies of changing the country for good working for an organisation in southern Assam and had always…