An Indian mystic, Osho opined that discrimination starts the moment a child is born. “Boy or a girl?”, “Dark or Fair?” are typically the very first queries new parents field. We too, have experienced this first as parents and later, as grandparents. As people of Indian origin, this bias towards a fair complexion is engrained …
Motherhood
The popular TV series Westworld had an episode in which a character mouths this philosophical observation, “You live for as long as someone remembers you”. There are many people who came into my life and having lived their lives, moved on. Some of them still live on … they come alive instantly when I think …
The Milk of Human Kindness
We are living through unprecedented times, trying to accept and acclimatize ourselves to a way of life none of us could even have imagined just a few weeks ago. “Way of life” is not the same for everyone. It would take a great deal of empathy on our part to appreciate what another person might …
“Key Man”
Just when everyone has gone into isolation I am emerging from self-imposed hibernation to write this piece. A week or so before the closure of schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there was high drama in our daughter’s household. Their soon-to-be-six (going-on-sixteen) daughter got back from school one afternoon and excitedly told her parents and …
