The flower of the Ashoka tree 'Saraca Asoca' is the state flower of Odisha. This tree signifies a state of being free from “shoka” or sorrow. The essence of Hinduism is to live a life …
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Philip Gourevitch (published by Picador Classics) This was a very difficult book to read. Covering the genocide in…
Shakespeare dramatically warned, ‘Beware the Ides of March “through the clairvoyant in his play “Julius Caesar’. Arrogance bordering on megalomania made Caesar contemptuously …
My Dad Says I'm Turning Into My Mother - And Nothing Could Make Me Prouder Here is an article I wrote on Mother’s Day, a recent couple of years back, when my Ma was alive. It captured the es…
Today is the first day of March and I smile as it's a special month for me.I was born on 13th March and am amused when people cringe at the number thirteen(it also was a Friday!) It adds a bit of mys…
I had a very troubled relationship with Shakespeare since the time I came to know of him. Much of it stemmed from the fact that he was prescribed reading not just in school but also what my dad consi…