“I am not only leaving a house I have lived in for eleven years; I am also vacating a country I have been in for fifteen.” Parth Pandya writes on what it means to be relocating to India with his family after having lived in the U.S. for a decade and a half.
Dr. K. Parameswaran highlights the importance of knowing a second language – going beyond an alternative language in which to communicate, it offers an alternative world view.
The greatest of men struggle with the simplest of things, and while Parth Pandya humbly states he’s “not great” (yet), he stum(b)bles with a simple act too.
Liking “To Kill a Mockingbird” came quite easily. “Go Set a Watchman” however, is a far more complex-yet-thorough telling of a Southern tale. Given the controversies and polarizing reviews that the book received, Rishika. S. Pardikar believes Lee’s story deserves a fair trial.
An oft-heard perception is that women aren’t as creative as men, especially “after a certain point”. S.Ramachandran tries to unravel this idea and explore its manifestations and truths.
Kannagi, the revolutionary protagonist of Tamil epic Silappadikaram, has fascinated Tamil Nadu for several centuries as embodying various virtues — female subservience, perseverance, devotion, chastity, anger, power and justice. Ranjani Krishnakumar traces what she has meant to Tamil filmmakers, who continue to be fascinated to this day!
Vani Viswanathan eavesdrops on the conversation of six middle-aged women and imagines what the various facets of their married lives are like. But life, as it were, throws in a few surprises, and Vani finds her imagination challenged.
Be it capturing the spirit of the city, telling inspiring life stories of people or spreading positivity by aiding social causes, city-themed Facebook pages in India are becoming wonderful platforms that bring the human spirit to the fore. The people behind Humans of Bombay, Humans of Bangalore and Humans of Madras talk to Anupama Krishnakumar about what it means to be running inspiring Facebook pages that have transformed the way people look at the life of a person on the street.
December 2015 has been an unforgettable month for the people of Tamil Nadu, with the unprecedented floods wreaking havoc and the collective spirit of the state countering it heroically. But, what of the unexpungable traces it leaves? Here’s Bhargavi Chandrasekharan’s account of coping with utter low of the disaster through the artistic explorations of Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sanjay Subrahmanyan.