Vani Viswanathan traces her addiction to tea through three different cities.
S Viswanathan reminisces a time when cinema held sway as the king of entertainment, a stark contrast to what it is today – a massive but fleeting presence in people’s lives.
Vani Viswanathan remembers some of the ways she ‘collects’ the past, and wonders why she clings on so dearly to times gone by.
Dreams from the past that have become realities are often forgotten by the human mind. These forgotten dreams are shadows of the dreamer, says Vinay Krishnan, who insists that certain dreams in life have to be dreamt again and again even if they have become realities.
Grandmothers hold a very special place in the lives of many people. Divya Ananth lets us take a sneak peek into the spirited personality that her grandmother is and in the process, takes us on a heart-warming journey filled with memories of her times with her Paati. Read on.
Archita Suryanarayanan spots a child doing up a drawing on his mother’s smartphone.The incident prompts her to mull over how mobile phones draw people more and more into a virtual world particularly with their technological excellence. She writes down her thoughts in a piece of non-fiction.
Discussing the highly controversial (and yet extremely popular) ‘Blurred Lines’ by Robin Thicke, Kalpanaa Misra believes the culprit could be our attachment to the age-old misogynist belief that men have rights over women’s bodies. Such songs only promote rape culture, she writes.
Vani Viswanathan discusses her attachment to what she considers sunshine in a bottle – beer.
Could a few square feet of space mean the world to someone? Bindu John talks about her attachment to her room: her pillar of strength, the place where she truly belonged.