For most Indian girls, marriage has always been that goal lurking in the distance: the unspoken assumption that every girl will depart to her ‘real’ home one day and every boy will receive said girl into his home, depending on the colour of her skin, the soundness of her limbs…

The job keeps me fairly busy and my normal routine on a weekend is to get back into bed with the current scripts and my red pen. That’s exactly what I did after I had made the favourite brew. So while I was reading some convincing and some terrible answers…

Perhaps what attracted me to the book The Fragile Thread of Hope, by Pankaj Giri, was the poetic title. Add that to the elegance of the cover and it certainly merits a second glance. …

Ever since the virus shook the foundation of our world, things have changed dramatically. With schools shut and the new WFH policy, every individual has been compelled to adapt and adjust to what is now the famous ‘new-normal’. In the sphere of education, parents, teachers and students have been hit…

The pandemic has turned life upside down. Educational institutions have been compelled to not only deliver academic instruction online but also conduct examinations and assessment tests. In such a scenario, we must ask ourselves a very important question. Is online testing fair? An honest answer would be an absolute no…

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again…

Make no mistake, Mussoorie is an enchantingly quaint little towny-hill-station, tucked away in a green corner of Uttarakhand. Make no mistake, the weather is to die for and so are the momos at the little corner café when you reach Landour. …

It was the old story. The in-laws and husband wanted a son. She gave birth to a girl, then another and another. After the fourth girl child, the village nurse told her that if she had another child, it would kill her. Either that would if her husband did not. …

Love in the Time of Coronavirus We all live difficult lives, busy with either the job or other priorities. Through the unholy cacophony of life, I could hear my Facebook page screaming for attention. And so, I’m here with another piece. Apologies for the bump in the road. In these difficult and challenging times, I am…