She who must be obeyed is currently away. Silence resonates through the empty house and for now, home is but a quiet dwelling. Familiar sounds, that act like socks stuffed in a suitcase to fill up empty corners and cushion the contents from bumps, are missing. Running water in the kitchen sink or washroom basin, …
This International Women’s Day
Grandmothers are traditionally repositories of many types of stories. Gifted narrators, they are able to transform the most mundane daily household experiences into absorbing yarns that keep the young ones around them engrossed and out of trouble, for hours. They have a finger on the collective pulse of the attentive listeners and can switch effortlessly …
Till death do us part
Marriages, it is said, are made in heaven. This may be so but the lead-up to the actual event on this planet can in itself be an interesting phenomenon. It was in 1974 that we the budding engineers at Delhi College of Engineering conceived the idea of organizing an All-India multicultural festival – “EngiFest.” A …
Residential Schools
My younger brother was 8 years old I guess, when he was sent off to a boarding school in Delhi. A few years earlier at the age of ten, I had been enrolled in a Public school. I cannot quite recall my brother’s initial adjustment trauma, but I was miserable for the first few weeks. …
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