Category: Relationships

  • Savitri Bai – a journey from Swiss haven to cultural India

    Savitri Bai – a journey from Swiss haven to cultural India

    Most Indian children who were growing up during late 1980’s would relate to the childhood memory of watching regular telecasts of television series called Param Vir Chakra. In fact, there is no denying the fact that, this television series was quite instrumental in arousing patriotic feelings among young, impressionable minds or at least made them […]

  • The Polestar

    The Polestar

     The ‘new normal’ that the families are experiencing due to the Corona-virus pandemic is where most parents are working from home and children are staying indoors perennially. While parents must tackle home chores along with work from home challenges, the constant struggle to engage young minds constructively became an add on to the existing list […]

  • Children born in paradise

    Children born in paradise

    Many years ago while sitting thousands of kilometers away and quite unaware of the ground reality in Jammu and Kashmir, I came across this famous quote by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir “Gar firdaus bar-rue zamin ast, hami asto, hamin asto, hamin ast” (“If there is a heaven on earth, it’s here, it’s here, it’s here”). […]

  • Break free from the shackles

    Break free from the shackles

    As memories of my past experience with Sanskrit are still fresh in my mind, advertisements regarding crash courses offered in different languages often made me  wonder how can someone learn a language in such a short span. As ironic as it may sound in spite of having Sanskrit as a third language at the school […]

  • The lifeline – in Peril

    Nitin sat in the car with a promise in his heart to come back soon. As it drove away, every time he looked through the window he saw his loved ones standing at the gateway. With every mile that he covered, the image of them become all the more blurred to him. It was difficult […]

  • The lifeline – lost and found

    It was late in the evening when Nitin came out of the lab, after spending hours analyzing samples that were collected during excavation. He was in an upbeat mood, eager to share his excitement with the team as the outcome of analysis was positive. Nitin is an archeologist who is working in an international project, […]

  • Other Side of the Fence

    While returning home after dropping her daughter Naina at guitar class, Megha noticed that the area near her society was developing at a fast pace. At a few places, shops have been demolished and the area has been converted into a supermarket. A couple of huge gated communities are also coming up. Her thoughts went […]