Aren’t we all migrants?
The author recalls his time as a migrant and emphasizes on how migrants have shaped politics, businesses and even sports across borders.
Personal Stories
This sub-category is like a personal blog for writers. Writings primarily based in personal experience are part of this.
The INDIA outside INDIA
The skies are open and so are the seas which flow freely without any distinguishing marks as boundaries which are man-made but the minute a step is taken or put in another country, the law comes into force and national legitimacy needs to be proved in terms of citizenship. The experience of crossing boundaries is…
The parochial Indian campus
The Indian university campuses have instead transformed into hotbeds of parochialism with groupings along caste, religious, ethnic, linguistic and regional lines as well as ideological affiliation.
Indian Mangoes- Owner’s Pride, Passerby’s Envy
Owing to their great taste, Indian mangoes have also been used to build relationships as tools of diplomacy.
Love Letter to my Mother
Even though I am living in a different continent, she still remains my coffee partner virtually on most days with our own coffee pe charcha and savor our time together.
Swimming in Tonga with the Humpback Whales
An encounter with humpback whales at ‘Eua is a magical experience. Somehow the whales only choose Tonga to visit and mate every year.
Letter to Japan from a frustrated Indian PhD scholar
An Indian PhD scholar shares about his loneliness and proposes a strategic relationship with Japan to open Okiya-Geisha branches in India
Religion, Faith and Cancer
The trick that life plays when you are on the edge is confusing. This is an excerpt from a chapter written by Anuraag Khaund for the book ‘Adulting with Cancer’
Fumbling through Bumble – Confessions of Using an ‘Unsanskari’ Dating App
Here, on a dating app, you’re asked about actual things that you want from a relationship – like if you want kids, want to hook up or basaofy your ghar grihasti. These are some pertinent, deal-breaking points in a relationship that you get to tackle from the get-go.
Making room for happiness
Travel gets you out of the familiarity and the routine. And while the familiar is the warm cozy sweater which we also need, travelling gets you thinking about what else to wear.
Thank you letter to a ‘narrow-minded’ father
Dear Papa, I have a confession to make. As a kid, I saw you as a conservative and a narrow-minded person. And my only reason for seeing you was because you never liked Di and me wearing clothes that were even a little revealing. I used to get envious of my friends and cousins who…
The Pasta fetish and the Macaroni reality
It is not the pasta that you are eating, rather it is a failed system that is continuing to eat you!!
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