Posted inModern Family
My Mama’s Baby in Sickness and in Health
My mother and I lived under the same roof after two decades and clashed, as mothers and daughters do, about “settling down”. All that changed when I got a renal tumour.
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The Maestro, Ilaiyaraaja says Yes to #DigitalIndia, #DigitalMedia
The Maestro, Ilaiyaraaja collaborates with Facebook and Arré, exclusively. Mindshare joins hands as strategic partner.
Posted inPeople
Give Way, There’s a Heart on Board
K Anthony is a transporter of hearts, and he drives like the devil to deliver them on time.
Posted inPeople
Oh, Street Child O’ Mine
The first Indian to win a gold at Rio in 2016 was R Hepsibah, a street child from Chennai. There were no coaches for this child prodigy. Instead, she got her start running away from cops.
Posted inPOV
Back Off Chennai, Let a Lady Smoke in Peace
In Chennai, I have to pay 200 rupees at a posh café, every time I want to smoke a 16-rupee cigarette. Not that chauvinism doesn’t exist in other Indian cities, but it is especially pronounced in my home city.
Posted inCulture
How RK Narayan’s Malgudi Days Helped Me Understand My Grandfather
Malgudi might have been a made-up Tamil town of the 1940s, supposedly located near colonial Madras. But its realism came from slice-of-life tales about a community that, however far removed from me in space and time, felt like home.
Posted inPOV
How WhatsApp Could Save the World
Simply telling people not to believe WhatsApp forwards is not going to cut it. So is it possible that we can just tell them what to believe instead?
Posted inGender
An Officer and a Transgender
To become India’s first transgender police officer, K Prithika Yashini had to pass a tough exam – that of ascertaining and sticking with her gender identity.
Posted inCulture
Manto: The Seer Who Knew Every Prostitute and Pimp in Town
Manto’s stories can broadly be divided into two sections: the ones about Partition, and the ones about Mumbai. The latter are the ones I admire the most, when he wrote about the dingy alleys of the city, where prostitutes, pimps, and decent men met, their dreams and desires in tow and humanity intact.
Posted inPeople
My Slow Surrender to Amma
I was an outsider in Chennai. But as years passed, my indifference toward Jayalalithaa turned into admiration.