Book Review - The Liberation of Sita

This book, I bought it on the suggestion of Nalini Chettur of the famous "Giggles" - The Biggest Little bookshop in Chennai. I have been a regular at her shop and I love buying books from her. I love my interactions...

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The Amazing GlassBlower

He heats one end of a long glass tube holding it in his hand and when it just starts to take a gluey liquid form he gently blows through the other end of the tube with his mouth and simultaneously rolls the tube. Slowly...

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Dream, Imagination, Possibility, Reality - Human and Science

Human beings are the most advanced species on this earth. We are the most dangerous species too. Since we are both advanced and dangerous we have been surviving on this earth for a very long time. We have travelled...

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"My Skin color" - The crisis of many childhood.

What is your skin colour? How much importance do you give to your own skin colour? Let me answer that question from the standing point of a Malayalee brahmin middle-class teenager that once I was. Skin colour is how I measure my beauty and how I identify myself. That much important it is for a teenager...

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Plastic - The boon that is a bane

I read a news today which was shocking, at the same time very painful. A veterinary doctor performed a surgery on a cow and removed around 98 Kg of plastic and other deadly waste from its stomach. The waste included...

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The Groundnut Festival

We are familiar with various types of festivals celebrated in our place. Festivals in India are very colourful. Celebrations are a big part of our tradition. So when I heard about this unique kind of festival celebrated...

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Her Destroyer

Oh! You, hanging in there; Lashing out at her. Hang in there, and stay rolled up. How you slash away; Splitting budding dreams into pieces, With your sharp edges. Stay there rolled up will you? Out you...

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Bigger picture of The Sabarimala issue

Seriously I am tired of listening to a bunch of people arguing over few hashtags like "#ready to wait" and "#RightToPray". I deliberately took time out to watch Arnab Goswami's show on Times now which I had stopped watching a long time ago due to the futility of the show and especially the high...

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Raise Your Voice

Image Source There is so much to protest and fight for and so much to question, but where are all the affected??? India is the world's largest democracy and we did not become one overnight. Thousands struggled and...

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Truly and Fabulously Feminist

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. ~ Arundhati Roy What is Feminism?Feminism is the movement which fights for equal rights of a woman as a man. Since...

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The Smell of Rain

She walked into the store to escape the drizzling outside. She was not dressed for the rain. She felt a sudden pang of worry as she wiped off the water from her neatly waxed hands using the tissue paper from her . She...

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My simple encounter with nature

Image Source As I stood there looking at the evening sky, the soft wind caressed my hair. I could smell the wetness of the soil and the freshness of the greenery around me. I was feeling light and fresh. Standing like...

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Why are You Happy?

Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think. ~ Buddha What makes you Happy? This is a difficult question for me to answer. Why are you Happy now? At times, this is...

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Unique, not Different

ImageSource Every topic I write here has an inspiration. I believe it to be the same with almost all writers. Certain incidents arouse a strong feeling to write. Today I read a story about a girl and her differently-abled...

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WED - What we can do

Yesterday was "WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY". This has been trending in the social media. My recent interest in social, political and economic news prompted me to google the significance of this day. As a matter of fact,...

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