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She rocked my world: in all my time with her, away from her and now without her. As hard as this is to write, it had to be written.For this ...

In the past so many months, watching English news channels was an absolute pain. Team Anna, Civil Society, second Independence Movement were...

She was a wonderful person and I loved her. My world would be different without her in it. Not that i visited her often. Of late, me being a...

My husband’s (Sunny) friend and his wife dropped in once without notice. Sunny had gone out, and so i was left entertaining them. That was t...

My father was one of the earliest people in Kerala to manufacture soap. He had a soap factory in Thevara. My mother used to go into fits of ...

My cousin Martinette (name changed, of course), about ten years older than me, held her hand behind her back and asked, ‘Where’s aunty’ ...

A new word has gained currency in Kochi now. HINDIKAAR , which takes my mind back to the few years i was in Mumbai where the average Mumba...

Looking out from my apartment in Kochin, my mind travels back to my four year stint in Trivandrum, in the 11th floor of an apartment in that...

“Where do you stitch your blouse?” This is a query which is bound to pop up where ever two or three women gather for whatever purpose. I hav...

Monsoons is a stale topic for writers but it continues to invade the print, electronic, audio and virtual media the same way it does my mind...

The word “miscellaneous” is a standing joke in my family. My father gave us, his children, access to the cash box in which money for weekly ...

“I want curtain material”. That was the monsoon (since kerala doesn’t go strictly by the spring summer, autumn pattern) of the year 1976. I ...

Kerala elections – it was a nail biting finish. The narrow scrape of the UDF makes me happy. The narrowness of the victory is indicative of ...

Too much! A remark against VS and the party goes berserk vandalizing NSS property. Should the NSS now go around attacking party offices, no...

Peaceful and violent revolutions are destabilizing well-entrenched political dispensations around the world. The mood indeed is catching. It...

The elections are over but the generation war continues. In the media, which is trying to prolong it. Yesterday, Shashi Tharoor, the super d...

A strange letter. It thanks Hazare for daring to praise him, but “him” is equated with Gujarat. ‘And it was yesterday that I got the encoura...

Strange. She exists only in my imagination. She was born there, bred there, suffered there, evolved there. Now she has outgrown me, as child...

Today is women’s day. For some strange reason, I am in an expansive mood and so not in a frame of mind to contribute my mite to the gender w...