“Success is not final and failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts” – Winston Churchill. There is something in my mother’s garden that lives up to it. It comes to life from nowhere and blooms Read more…
These days I am busy with spring cleaning. Yes, you read it right, spring cleaning in Summer! This is all thanks to lockdown that I have enough time on hands. This spring cleaning is of digital type, though. I am Read more…
“Hey, I saw something, a direction board, maybe a danger warning, probably, of which I am not sure, on a small wooden post, right before the bend that we took just now”, she said in one breath, shouting with frenzy, Read more…
She had walked up and down the cobbled street for most of her growing up days. Thousands of steps she would take each morning with her father to reach her school had the silent company of the closed shutters of Read more…
Yesterday, like every other morning these days, my new normal since lockdown, I was sitting near the flower-bed balcony of my flat which happens to be on the 10th floor of the skyscraper. A steaming hot cuppa of coffee was Read more…
The ugly war of words erupted again between him and her, stabbing each other’s hearts mercilessly with every word uttered, tormenting the mind of their eight-year-old son. The little boy retraced his steps back to his room, with a heavy Read more…
“I feel so liberated, Amma”, said Vishnu as he hugged his mother Karthikeyi with euphoria and showed her the message on the mobile about his first salary being deposited to his account, with pride. “With liberation comes responsibility, Vishnu and Read more…
“Time to visit your favorite Kasbah’*, announced Amina as she secured ‘Shayla’** for Sarah with a broch. Sarah clapped, with joy cascading from her bright eyes. “Mashallah, you look so beautiful”, said old Amina in shaking voice, looking at Sarah. Read more…