New Year is beginning with yet another movie which is teaching us something new. First Rani Mukherjee taught us about the struggles of a visually impaired perso...
Islamic music variety is rich and immense. Call it social lubricant or balm to the broken heart, music is all around us. What cannot be said, can be sung. Every...
Death is feared. Still, the grim reaper comes knocking one day or the other. But, we do everything to delay that day. Our hospital corridors are chock full of r...
The word supermodels is a word that whispers of flashing cameras, screams of runway and is a definite reminder of the glamour of the fashion industry. Throughou...
Few things smell as sumptuous as a sauce simmering on a stove top. And when that lovely, velvety sauce drapes itself over your chicken or pasta, all the restrai...
Everything about watching a child grow is delightful. The alphabet song slowly becomes a nursery rhyme and before you know it, the rhymes disappear, giving way ...
All Sheikhs are Arabs but all Arabs are not Sheikhs. Yes, its a common misnormer to address all white robbed men as Sheikhs but truth is, only the royal familie...
Cinema is a beautiful manifestation of any story. A storyteller's dream, if you will. It breathes life into narrative. History has seen some exceptional filmmak...
The word Parliament reminds us of sober faced and khaadi clad leaders seated in power. But, we all know more than that. We have had people throwing potted plan...
Punctuation marks give shape to an otherwise flaccid sentence. The English classes in schools have stressed enough on why they are important and how they make o...
At some point of time in life, we have been told that we are cribbing unnecessarily and that the crib is not justified by any means!
They might have a point. B...
Kashmir and the unrest unnerved us. The beautiful valley - A must visit place of India, has been suffering for years. No solutions appears like a solution for t...
From our elders to the Cadbury diary milk ads, everyone has taught us one thing. Doing something sensational with your life? Have something sweet. What is weigh...
Music and food are two things that bind people across cultures and continents. While one feeds the soul, the other feeds the soul and the stomach both. There is...
The clock chimed again and she could hear the front door opening. He had let himself in, the one aspect of city that she was okay with. It would have killed her...
Reality away from the seashore
The empty air around her only mocked her in reply. This air was of the cities, it witnessed a million frail people like her bein...
There are few things in our everyday life that make us take special notice. The aroma of Basmati rice is a special mention on that list. The silken long grain h...
She ran her finger on the edge of the table. She heard a squeak, the squeak of a freshly cleaned surface. Satisfied, she got up and made her way to the huge, in...
All things sweet and sugary pale in comparison to the queen supreme, chocolate. Its loved, its revered and it brings smiles on faces young and old alike. It’s r...
Most of us might remember at least a single article of furniture from our grandparent’s house that enjoys greater reverence than others. That, “canopy bed”, tha...
Service tax and what it is
Every service provider is supposed to pay a certain tax on services rendered to the government. This amount is charged to the custom...
Organ Donation: Modern medicine at its finest.
Transplanting healthy organs of the donor into a person with damaged organs is organ transplantation.A procedure...
Mosquitoes are a nuisance! To get an idea of how much we don’t like them, one just has to see the sketches of these mosquitoes in mosquito repellents commercial...
Gambling is as old as Arthashastra, Even older. So, pretty much since humans figured out that they could make easy money, gambling existed. From then, it has on...
A short, dreamy, trying-so -hard to be a lady kind of girl with a regrettable knack for accounts and tax and an incurable passion for writing my little, beating heart out. Oh, and I bake tolerably.
