Saying ‘thank you’ is not merely a code of social etiquette with me. I consider it an essential component of human nature, a marker of civility and culture. Every time we remember to say ‘thank you’, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth. Animals don’t say ‘thank you’, but…

Mass crematoriums and graves, long waiting lines outside hospitals, people dying in hordes from lack of oxygen and medication. The situation in India is out of control. Hospital workers are working overtime risking their own lives for others. And if they fall victim to the Covid virus themselves, they are…

How not to Despair about Despair One of the things that makes hope so difficult is the pressure it entails. The pressure to be positive, to be hopeful, to see the best in everything. The whole positivity movement that has dominated our self-help literature and understanding in the past few…

Promises.. Almost all relations are built on ‘Promises’. Promise to be there; Promise to be the soft place to land if the other falls; Promise to love unconditionally; Promise to love till Eternity! But there is this thing about Promises; they aren’t always fulfilled. People lie. People change. …

Some very middle class things.. Having been brought up in an Indian middle class household , I’m sure many of you out there reading this post can relate to this exceptionally well. We Indians are very desi and frugal in whatever we do.Indeed, …

It’s okay to not feel okay during this quarantine period.Our lives have all wreaked havoc and our external “normal” has been stripped away. While this is uncomfortable and challenging, the opportunity here isn’t to get back to “normal” but to shift from within to a new normal. Let’s face it…

Social Media… a boon..? an evil?.. My thoughts.. Social media was meant to be a way to connect us to one another. A way to reignite past relationships, reach out across time zones and continents and bridge the gap that time and distance may have created between families and friends…