Chandramohan Nair recollects the time in his youth when he could face life’s challenges with optimism, energised as he was by a talent for daydreaming.
As a man recalls his escape from struggle and penury, he is able to see relics of a number of good things he has unwittingly left behind while hastening his way out, things which make him reassess his choice of escape. A poem by Anupam Patra.
THE LOUNGE | SLICE OF LIFE Paris is known as the city of love and lights. But is that all? In her recent visit to this city, Anusha Singh discovered an air of liberation that women enjoy, something that she misses in most parts of India.
THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE Subhashini reviews Parth Pandya’s ‘r2i: Return to India: A Tale of Living India-genously’, a memoir of an NRI’s journey back to India after spending two decades away from it. It is ‘an effortless read and the author’s incisive wit and wry humour keep the pages turning,’ she says.