The chai tapri uncle we visited every day during my girlfriend’s 10-day trip to Delhi saw her kiss me goodbye. Here's what came next.
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The Standard Playbook: A Raging Father and His Unimpeachable Son
The author's mother's recollection of a lived experience after reading the piece 'Remembering A ‘Holy’ Father and His Unholy Son'.
Uprooted by the Partition: Witnessing the Chaos Before and After
Despite living in several cities across India over the past 50 years and thinking of myself as more Indian than English, I cannot look upon August 15 as Independence Day …
Parents, Households and Mental Health
The toxicity of a family might vary from being very trivial to extremely unbearable. But the worst part is some of us don’t even realise that it’s not normal.
A Teacher Who Never Really Was
The author writes about the exalted status of a teacher in our country which leads to an asymmetric power equation and blocks a deeper understanding of the learning process for impressionable …
Growing Up With Undiagnosed ADHD
I simply function differently from the people around me – a fact I now understand and accept after years of taxing confusion.