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Caring for the elderly

The state of senior citizens is pathetic. Loneliness and neglect affect them badly

Saint-Denis, Réunion - August 25 2015: Musician playing with a nadaswaram during a Tamil festival.

The wedding beats

Shankar Gopalkrishnan

A pet by accident

Kamala Balachandran The small hole in one of the tomatoes in the basket set the alarm bells ringing. It was clear evidence of a rodent bite.

Mature woman celebrating her birthday alone at home but with friends online on video conference. She looks happy and elegant and holding cupcake with candle. She is lonely in quarantine during lockdown because of corona virus outbreak

Upended routines

Vijaya Bharat The second wave swept like a tsunami; many became part of the disturbing statistics of cases and casualties

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A bunch of ripe apricots hanging on a tree in the orchard. Apricot fruit tree with fruits and leaves. Ukraine.

The apricots in the suitcase

S.G. Vombatkere A taste of the juicy, lip-smacking Ladakhi fruit

Evolving into a better today

Sheila Balakrishnan The good old days may not have been that good; today, mankind is less brutal, violent and cruel

Travel restriction abstract made of tourist in form of of luggage with face mask, sunglasses and hat.

From Partition to pandemic

Kirti Wadhawan Born in present-day Pakistan, my grandfather still remembers the days of Partition.

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Living off borrowed words

Jairam N. Menon

What really matters is neither the creator nor the content but the quotation mark

For safety of students

Arshita Aggarwal

A systemic change is must to prevent harassment by teachers

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The silence of the lockdown

A staggered haircut

Say it like you mean it

The fall from heights

Upended routines

A pet by accident

The wedding beats

Conducting a South Indian wedding without nagaswaram is like celebrating Deepavali without lights

Caring for the elderly

The state of senior citizens is pathetic. Loneliness and neglect affect them badly

The riddle of life

Let’s bring back the old riddles to survive the dark days

Pandemic life in apartments

Physical distancing is difficult despite best efforts, due to space constraints and families living in clusters

A room with a view

If not the trees, it is the squirrels and their antics, a monitor lizard or very rarely a snake

Acing a kolam competition

The cheer that evening wasn’t about winning; it was about how a young boy stormed his way into a women’s bastion

Living off borrowed words

What really matters is neither the creator nor the content but the quotation mark

From Partition to pandemic

Born in present-day Pakistan, my grandfather still remembers the days of Partition.

The apricots in the suitcase

A taste of the juicy, lip-smacking Ladakhi fruit

Evolving into a better today

The good old days may not have been that good; today, mankind is less brutal, violent and cruel

Over a cup of tea

It takes a while to enjoy sugarless tea and begin to appreciate its taste

The dream sellers of Kerala

Self-taught lottery salesmen are persistence and persuasiveness personified

The colourful thieves

They have always existed in all cultures and it seems stealing is a byproduct of civilisation

The landline generation

From beds to Walkman, we were accustomed to share everything

In search of a good death

Pandemic has demonstrated that as much as a good life, people desire a good exit too

Pregnant during a pandemic

Vaccination is the way to go to protect expecting women

For safety of students

A systemic change is must to prevent harassment by teachers

Fear of missing out

In the share market, good things come to those who wait and not to those who follow the herd

Technologies during the pandemic

Certain devices and applications play a major role and have found importance during this period

The charm of handwritten letters

Letters were an integral part of life, and people living in the interiors depended solely on the postal form of communication

Seriously non-serious

Poetry provides a new perspective from afar in real time; it’s therapeutic

Farewell to an extraordinary writer

Ki Rajanarayanan did not win the many awards he might have but he truly lived along with the sun

Locked up together 24x7

A successful marriage learns to gradually overlook the ego and hear the heart in the journey. It’s very difficult yet it can be achieved. The focus

A cache against corona

The second wave has propelled a rush to stockpile medicines, masks and even oxygen cylinders

Paint your life – you are the artist!

Colours elicit emotions and are an inseparable part of our psyche and state of mind

The second coming

With the slow pace of vaccine roll-out and fast spread of the deadly virus, there is chaos and fear

The magic of the fountain pen

Many loved the writing tool despite the mess it created

Developing a scientific temper

Though we hold science on a very high ground, we fail to apply it in our daily lives

Rain in the desert

There is flourish of life everywhere. The heavenly showers have enriched the green cover

Neighbours meet in foreign climes

In the first half of 1968, as a member of a team of Indian engineers and architects, I was undergoing advanced training in low-cost housing in the

Chinese ‘sileek’ in old Madras

The unassuming man from China used to unwrap the best silks

Emerging stronger from the pandemic

Never even for a moment doubt that a great world awaits us

Mixing memories with desire

Looking back into history for a glimmer of hope in a visionary or substantial social reform

The battle for survival

Definition of poverty in India ignores the living conditions and material deprivation

Two birds and a taxidermist

Though dead, they looked full of life with false beady eyes

Questions of age and death

Dialogue about death and mortality needs more courage than the realisation of mortality itself

The passing of a priest

A.S. Narayana Deekshitulu served as one of the chief priests of the Tirumala temple for 50 years

Making a train wait

The railhead six km away can be reached by bus. It was the summer vacation of 1950.

The vivacious fighter

She chose to leave on her own terms rather than live

Obedience and understanding

Pushing children too hard in studies can distance them from learning

Lives in the second wave

What could have happened if as a society we all cared and worked for the well-being of the poor amid the pandemic?

The vaccine round

People’s soaring enthusiasm for vaccination is a positive

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