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I wonder what people get in gossiping about others. Often even educated people are seen gossiping like illiterate people damaging other people’s reputation. Continuing with Gauri’s story, today I take this opportunity to talk about another incident in the same school. The school was for elite kids. The other teachers ...

Yesterday, we celebrated my Dad’s birthday. He stepped into his 84th year yesterday. Mom and Dad have played very important roles in the lives of both of us sisters. His strictness and his trust on Mom that she would bring us up properly; have been the reasons we turned out ...

I am not going to post a joke on this day called the All Fools Day. But, I am sharing a real-life incident that happened with one of the girls in our group – Gauri (name changed at request). All the students called her dumb. The other teachers made fun ...

Recently, I was online checking out some posts on a media group on Facebook. A morning tabloid connected to a leading broadsheet Indian newspaper requested contacts of people having annoying co-workers. I suddenly remembered that this tabloid was the perpetrator of the same crime and a journalist connected to this ...

Today, I would like to share an incident that happened with a fellow school teacher. In several schools, teachers are changed every year because the management does not want to pay the amount determined by the pay commission. As a result, children do not have respect for their teachers. Their ...

Most South Indians help others whenever they can. Let us talk about Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who was born on March 15, 1977. This gallant man singlehandedly not only saved a colleague during the Mumbai Terror Attacks but also took a bullet on his back to save some women hostages. The ...

While I was growing up, I had been observing different things and found them repulsive in various ways. Today, I am sharing a list of such myths prevalent in those days. 1. Soaps cannot get dirty: I saw this sentence as a joke in one of the leading newspapers when ...

Mom said, “Neeril kumizhi pol tonrinai. Kumizhi udaindadu pol udaindaye. Aiyaho! Yen manam kadarugirade. Gavanikkamal aagayatile parandu vittaye. Chandiranudan kalardu vittaya, nee? Aagayattil Munrampirai partal, nee dane ninaivil iruppai. Amma, enru chonnaye. Marandu vittaya, nee? En manam amaidi kollamal tavikkirade. En chaiven? Unnal verumai aakapatta idattai, meendum Sridevi aagave vandu ...

Today is our 69th Republic Day. On this day in 1950, we became a Sovereign Democratic Republic. Bharat Mata was in chains and she was partly freed on August 15, 1947. On this day 69 years back, all the chains were removed. Or that’s what we thought. But, no. Women ...

I often buy products online and I’ve been an Amazon regular. On a Sunday, we were expecting a packet. The doorbell rang and we saw a lady and her teenage daughter standing in front of us. The lady said that she had bought a packet ordered by me through Amazon. ...