Tulsi Bhua (aunt) is beside herself. She cannot find her Gangajali (a receptacle for holy water). Mummy is helping her search; it cannot just ...

May you want what is good and healthy,May you dream of what lets you soar. May you smileat the kindness of others,Content about how they ...

I hate not being able to focus. My thoughts are a million miles a minute. Part of me thinks a nap would help, but ...

Everywhere I go,I see destruction. Right or left,Up or down. Righteous or wicked,Free or enslaved. “None of it matters,You don’t matter” Is their motto,In ...

There is a strained quietness about the house. Mummy is terribly upset! Rita abandoned her Graduate Program at the University of Delhi after one ...

All packed in the car for a visit to a family friend. I have come along for the ride—no school today.   Tenth-grade finals are ...

The world is a chaotic mix of joy and sorrow. We are entitled and required to manage both. No one is promised an endless ...

For over a decade, I worked for one company. I went through two lateral moves, but none of them were promotions. I was with ...

In every second there is a moment In every moment there is a heartbeat Within every heartbeat, the next moment lives  Lava comes and goes As our ...

Summer nights of yore in a sparsely crowded Delhi, dhurries on rustic charpoys layered with cool white sheets, stars pricking in a darkening blue ...