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Aruna’s work lives not just in words, but in the change they spark. Discover her books, columns, films, and the stories behind every pursuit that challenges the ordinary.
Change is the only constant and all idioms describing the improbability of happenings, fall flat when we witness events that never seemed to be in the realm of remote possibility. That’s the first tho...
05 Feb 2022
We know not whether the person before us is sporting a smile or a smirk and whether there is appreciation or disdain. As we strain our ears to listen to muffled speech emerging from masks, we realize...
25 Nov 2021
Comedy shows that bring tears to our eyes through their low-quality jokes and serious ones that make us laugh courtesy of their ludicrousness, define television viewing in India where the lines betwee...
18 Oct 2021
‘Kupa manduka’-the Sanskrit phrase defines a small-minded person who foolishly imagines the limits of his knowledge to form the limit of all human knowledge. This is much like the frog confined to a w...
17 Sep 2021
“Rootedness is a thing of the past, my dear, we have people today owning multiple houses in multiple locations across the globe and barely living in any of them”, my good friend and real estate agent...
16 May 2021
The image of a woman desperately trying to revive her dying husband through cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) outside a ‘filled to the brim government hospital’, pictures of 22 bodies stacked inside...
29 Apr 2021