Lockdown state of mind

Lockdown state of mind

The lockdown has evoked a variety of reactions. Some are restless. Some bingeing on Netflix and Amazon Prime. A lot of us working from home. Children are studying as schools teach online. I got rather interesting responses to the slide above (the Kübler-Ross model...
Family ties

Family ties

It is said that children are the glue that binds a couple together. Well, ask any battle-weary couple who has navigated the journey called parenting and their incredulity will tell you the real story. Children do add joy, happiness, and wonder to your daily lives. But...
Tech Sermon

Tech Sermon

Sleep. Do you remember sleep? On the first Monday this month, I received an email from my meditation app with the above message. Since I had been traveling at a stretch in the last two weeks of the previous month, I had not used the app even once. The app decided that...
Extraordinary times call for ordinary measures

Extraordinary times call for ordinary measures

The 9-year old in my house is building cars and planes out of previously ignored Lego and Mechano sets. Interestingly, his joy in his creations matches his happiness when he would earlier call out the models of the cars before they passed our building. My son,...
Political correctness

Political correctness

It is 45-degree centigrade and I am driving to work when I pass a young man who has a fringe covering the better part of his forehead and his left eye. He does not see me, or my big black car because of that hair and just when I am thinking of telling him off, he...
Superwoman

Superwoman

It is amazing how many women in my generation decided to work towards this elusive title. We aspired to be feminists, professionals, domestic goddesses, the most amazing mothers and wives; the entire nine yards. To be fair, many succeeded in breaking the bar that...