It was 4:30 a.m. again, and exactly at that moment, Rajat was woken up by his mother’s sewing machine noise. Unlike in earlier days, he doesn’t get startled now. “Maa. Why do you have to stitch this shirt at this time? It’s just 4:30 a.m.,” he asked his 65-year-old mother, who was sitting on her sewing machine under a dim…
Author: Sudha Murty Pages: 232 I, my daughter, and my mother, all three of us are Sudha Murty fans. I have always loved her simple writing, which is reflected in my own writing. This book too is written in signature Sudha Murty style, like her other books. Simple story, easy writing, with a middle-class family as the protagonist, presents Indian…
If you think about it, all of us come across several people for a brief or a long time who touch upon our lives in some or other magical ways. Several. I, too, have been extremely fortunate to have met some wonderful people in my life thus far. This blog is dedicated to one such man with whom I have…
“Mom’s always telling me to come straight home. I don’t know what has happened to her since the past two years. It’s killing me”, said an irritated Aarav to his friend Piyush once he had ended the quick call with his mom. “Did you do anything Aarav that she is being strict with you?”, Piyush winked. “No mate. Nothing. Earlier…
“What? Are we going to go on our trip on this rickety bus? In the brochure they showed such beautiful Volvo buses”, I protested I was on a South India trip with my parents after spending a week in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This was during an era when the Internet was still not used heavily to make prior…
A few months back, I came across this news on an open platform for the mom community – “FDA approves the first pill for Postpartum Depression” Does this term ring a bell? POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION! It affects 1 in 7 women who give birth. And it’s a huge number. Still, this is something that is very conveniently brushed aside as “an…
Raising children is not easy. Just that we learn this only when we have our babies. Every baby comes with a different set of challenges. We always wanted to have two children. However, after our first child, I was still determining if I had enough patience to handle one more child. But we took the plunge and I gave birth…
The Palace of Illusions – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Pages: 360 The book was first published way back in 2008, though I was told about it by one of my dear friends in early 2024. When I was at the Hyderabad Airport in May this year, I absentmindedly started browsing through the books on display and this one caught my eye. Impulsively,…