In this era of smartphones where messages and mails have literally got the curtains down on the art of handwritten letters, what has happened of the mailbox? What must be its state of mind now that it is more or less out of job and no one even bothers to give a second look? Rajlakshmi Pillai writes an article on the mailbox’s perspective.
For Shreya Ramachandran, snow was a true marker of being in a foreign land. She recounts her first time seeing snow in London, a place she believes holds its best for those who wait and watch.
It’s the little joys that make life worth living, writes Anupama Krishnakumar, sharing some of them from her own life.
Being a mother is a strange mix of emotions: love, frustration and the knowledge that some years down the line, the mother-child relationship will undergo a sea change. Sumana Roy Chowdhury writes about her experience.
Bhargavi Chandrasekharan pays a tribute to the man who led by example, to the President who listened to his conscience and to a visionary who inspired a generation of Indians to dream beyond the skies.
It’s not an uncommon sight to see an Indian parent running behind her child in a bid to feed the kid a few morsels of food. Parth Pandya offers a humourous take on this amusing aspect of Indian parenting.
Parameswaran Krishna fondly narrates the discussion he had with KP Balakrishnan, who served in the Indian postal department in the sixties. He delightfully shares some exciting stories about the Telegram, which has now become a thing of the past.
Vani laments the poor levels of discovering new music that’s been the state of affairs for the last few years.
Lavanya Pathmanaban traces the journey of her love affair with coffee – from her kitchen, to Chennai’s cafés, all the way to Sydney! Read this hilarious account of a south Indian trying to deal with coffee in another part of the world.