Posts from the family category.
There is a particular kind of love that looks beautiful from a distance.Someone waits.Someone remembers.Someone notices everything.Someone keeps showing up.And because they ask for nothing, we assume their love must be deeper.The Unsaid made me question that assumption.Kartikeya Dhar places Kabir Sharma in Shimla in 2003, a schoolboy with an unusual ability to notice what others miss. He sees unha...
What if having it all is not about getting everything?What does it actually mean to have it all?More money? A successful career? A happy family? Good health? Inner peace? Meaningful relationships? Freedom from regret?We tend to imagine these things as items on a checklist. The more boxes we tick, the closer we are to a great life.Gaur Gopal Das’s You Can Have It All made me question that definitio...
There are some books you finish.And there are some books you escape from.Not Without My Daughter belongs to the second category.Because while reading Betty Mahmoody’s account, I kept thinking about one frightening question:What happens when the person you trusted most becomes the person you have to protect your child from?Betty travels from America to Iran with her Iranian-American husband, Moody,...
Why there are no such windows now? May be because there are no such walls.My both grandfather house have such windows. This space was not just to sit and view outside but to play , chat , eat and everything in between.
There are some questions that are asked because we don’t know the answer.And then there are questions we ask because we are afraid of what the answer might mean.Am I a Dalit? belongs to the second category.Vijhay Sundar K.G.’s novel begins in a world where caste is not an abstract idea discussed in textbooks. It is present in families, relationships, social behaviour, humiliation and the choices p...
As a podcaster I get asked by many celebs to be intereviewed. But this week we decided we ll reach out to our favourite (fictional) hero. And the choice was just one.Easy - Po Ping !!! The Dragon Warrior. The panda who eats too much and somehow keeps saving his village, and China.And since I've met him and had lovely chat about our lives, family, I decided to do the sensible thing — put two mics o...
A child’s first experience of courage is rarely dramatic. It is usually something much smaller: climbing a little higher, walking a little farther, trying something after being told not to, or facing a fear when there is no adult around to make the decision.That is the space Armaan Farid explores in The Brave Little Dinosaur Achoo.Achoo is bright, curious and mischievous. He loves running around, ...
Those who know me are aware of my unhealthy obsession with anything Latin-American. I actively seek books, content, and movies emerging from that region. In fact, I started learning Spanish because I read an extremely passionate poem by Pablo Neruda in college and was, well, obsessed. Needless to say, my brain immediately associates passion with Spanish, and it isn’t without reason. After all, the...
15th September 2018, a day before my birthday, my family hadn’t started celebrating Ganeshotsav yet in USA. My parents continue to manage from India after almost half a decade,I left my motherland. May be that guilt that day was overwhelming me and I had a moment I felt I stated the inevitable, having track record of miracles happening around me with the divine presence of Lord Ganesh. I was famou...
Every football match ends with a scoreline. Life rarely does. We remember the trophy, the missed penalty, the winning goal, but the conversations that never happened, the sacrifices made quietly at home, and the fears carried long after the stadium empties never find their way onto the scoreboard. That is the territory Devendra Garware chooses to explore in Shadows & Goals. Football gives the stor...
