So I just watched Greta Gerwig's Little Women again, this time with Pookie. I had read the abridged classic when I was little (do you...

Yes, yes, I know what that sounds like. I know we're not supposed to, being educated, modern-thinking people of the 21st century etc. And...

Pookie was video-chatting with a friend the other day. They were discussing Wonder Woman 1984. Pookie liked the movie. Her friend,...

If you've been following me on social media (and if you aren't, WHY NOT? HUH? HUH?) then you probably know that the release of Fatal...

Some of you may know this already, but three weeks ago, my family and I tested positive for Covid-19. As I type this, I'm swept by a...

There are about two months left for the launch of my new book Fatal Mistakes. And If you've been down this road with me the last time,...

When I was four, my father had to travel to Germany for work. This was the first time he was travelling abroad and as was the tradition...

Oh my love, it’s a long way we’ve come; From the freckled hills to the steel and glass canyons; From the stony fields, to hanging steel...

On February 5th, 2007, I took my first awkward steps into this new-fangled thing called 'blogging'. So much has happened since and so...

This year, Diwali was supposed to be a reprieve. From endless calls, video meetings, non-stop work and just the neverending routine of...

Pookie is an avid reader. And by that I mean she enjoys both listening to as well as reading stories. While this made the lockdown easier...

Yesterday was eventful. In the same way August 9 1945 was to, say, a shoemaker in Nagasaki. And probably like that day, this one started...

When Pookie was first struck by Disney fever a couple of years ago, one of her oft-repeated questions to me was “Which is your favourite...

Unless you’re some kind of a narcissist, you have at some point or the other heard a little voice within yourself going, “Psst! You don’t...

If like me, you were born in the 1980s in India and are reading this blog post written in English, on the internet, odds are you’ve had...

My mom’s side of the family has a special gift: they can sleep anywhere, anytime. Moving car? Done. Fourth seat of a local train? Why...

What will our children remember of us? Ever think of that? I do, all the time. Because when I look back to the memories I have of my...

I’m on Day 10 of the self-quarantine and something strange happened yesterday. I freaked out. No, I get it. It’s not exactly strange. But...

Years ago, when I was at an impressionable age, my grandmother told me a story. A mother loves her son very much and he loves her back....

In second year English lit, we studied an anthology of Indian women authors called Inner Courtyard. Named thus, because the inner...