My country, my home
My first year of college was a very lonely time. Living in the town of Indore, far away from home, I felt disconnected. My only communication with home was a monthly letter that I wrote and posted, and...
View ArticleIndia, by choice!
It was a choice made six years ago, and Pierre Marquis is happy with it. Despite his parents' apprehensions, the young businessman decided to move to India. "With the market opening up, it was offering...
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The theme for the next photo feature is HIDE 'N' SEEK. Submit your entry (one per person) with your name, a caption, & information about where you have taken the photo, to sundaydh@gmail.com latest...
View ArticleCome, stay, create
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, then something is wrong," said Orson Welles, the American actor, writer and producer of many films. This is the exact sentiment of all the...
View ArticleLost worlds
Nature becomes your travel companion when you take time out in these off-track destinations and live life in the slow lane... There you may well find the answer to your unnamed longings.SojhaThe...
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The theme for the next photo feature is shadows. Submit your entry (one per person) with your name, a caption, & information about where you have taken the photo, to sundaydh@gmail.com latest by...
View ArticleThe twilight years
Jews in Kerala have had a rich, unbroken history. Despite being a religious minority, they were able to exist among the natives, while holding on to the very distinct traits of their community. Sadly,...
View ArticleMy Take 'shadows'
The theme for the next photo feature is symmetry. Submit your entry (one per person) with your name, a caption, & information about where you have taken the photo, to sundaydh@gmail.com latest by...
View ArticleThere's always a way
Imagine, you are driving through rush hour traffic and all of a sudden, your car breaks down. The thought itself is enough to make one break into a sweat. But that's exactly what happened a few decades...
View ArticleSay it with verse...
The movie Titanic, directed by James Cameron, is remembered not so much for the epic disaster that sank 'the unsinkable ship', but more for the intense attraction between a young man and woman. It was...
View ArticleThis kinda love
This Valentine's Day, will you send me a thorn if I ask you to kill that red heart symbol off your head? That symbol ain't the real heart. Will you hose me with hate mail if I tell you that the human...
View ArticleHappy, on a larger scale
Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our existence, whether as a conscious or unconscious decision. It is every human being's inalienable right. Yet, how do we measure happiness? It comes in so many...
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The theme for the next photo feature is emotions. Submit your entry (one per person) with your name, a caption, & information about where you have taken the photo, to sundaydh@gmail.com latest by...
View ArticleQuietly flows the yarn
A friend, whining about tailoring costs and delays, wistfully said how she wished her grandmother's era was still around. "She was one of the most elegantly dressed in our family, and all she wore was...
View ArticleShe's an eagle when she flies
On International Women's Day 2017, the spotlight is on women's progress. New initiatives are being launched to help forge a better world where men and women will be truly equal. This annual focus on...
View ArticleBreaking free
Once, a man visiting the huge elephants in the Barnum and Bailey's circus was surprised to see that they were restrained with only a small rope, something that they could have easily broken. Their...
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The theme for the next photo feature is cityscapes. Submit your entry (one per person) with your name, a caption, & information about where you have taken the photo, to sundaydh@gmail.com latest by...
View ArticleThe young face
When I was still in college, a friend who had joined the workforce recounted that when he refused to take a favour from a customer, the older colleagues in office mocked him and said that they were all...
View ArticleBorn this way
Perhaps there has never been a generation so misunderstood as today's millennials. From being labelled as 'entitled' and 'self-obsessed', to being viewed as a key cog in the wheel that is the...
View ArticleHearty ha ha!
Noted educationist, the late H Narasimhaiah, was often derisively referred to as Huch (mad) Narasimhaiah due to his many eccentricities. One day, when HN, as he was popularly known, was standing near...
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