While I was leaving for my evening walk, a phone call from a student left me completely baffled. “Ma’am, will you be coming to the college tomorrow?” I was taken aback by this strange query. “Why not? Is it a holiday tomorrow?” was my instant reaction. Pat came the reply, “Ma’am, it’s your birthday.” Continue reading “That reverence in the eyes….”
An Unceremonious Pack-up
I am not talking about a pack-up announced by a director after a film shooting. It’s about a virtual ‘pack-up’ declared by a doctor in a dental clinic. Continue reading “An Unceremonious Pack-up”
Honking Instinctively
Manhattan municipality is finding it difficult to control honking in the city. Reason: majority of the cab-drivers are from Indian sub-continent. Continue reading “Honking Instinctively”
The cheeky puzzle
If Bangalore is the ‘City of Gardens’, Chandigarh has no less a claim to be called the ‘city of parks’ where every open space or stretch of land has been converted aesthetically into a park or a green grassy lawn. Neither is there any dearth of parks in the city nor of the health conscious fitness freaks that can be seen jogging or walking in the gardens. Continue reading “The cheeky puzzle”
A ray of hope
Whereas birth of a son is celebrated; there is, instead, a sort of mourning or a resigned acceptance on the arrival of a baby girl in most Indian homes. Sadly, this is neither the beginning nor the end of prejudices against the females Continue reading “A ray of hope”
