The 5th of September and social media is flooded with messages to teachers, whether we truly remember them or not. The reason we celebrate this day as teacher’s day is because when the second President of India, Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan,was approached by his students requesting permission to celebrate his birthday as a special day, he…
Read moreBlurb: Lost in Istanbul & Other Stories from My Life is a collection of memoirs close to the author’s heart. Narratives that travel from the innocent days of a Calcutta childhood, criss-crossing the globe, to the present-day Mumbai life. This book erases boundaries of genre and time and celebrates an amazing journey called LIFE. My…
Read moreHave you ever wondered why some people (both the two legged and the four legged) come into your life, and just when you get really attached to them, they leave? My daughter says they come to teach you something or give you something you need at that point in your life. And sometimes you are…
Read moreToday I read the list of prompts on the thefrangipanicreative.com. I was struck by the coincidence of two things. One, it’s Women’s Day on the 8th of March and two, it’s World Poetry Day on the 21st of March. When I published my first book of poems, “Who Shall I Be Today”, on the 8th…
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