Nearly four months ago, school teacher, Shruti Rana moved to Chennai with her newly-wedded husband, Vivek. As a girl born and brought up in hills of Nainital, the scorching and humid Chennai summer has caught her in surprise. Every day, their cosy 3-bedroom-apartment in Thiruvanmiyur becomes a prison of hell by midday and sadly, there’s […]
Summer is almost here and the mornings are finally going to be easy, thought Malini, a Hyderabad-based homemaker and mother of 9-year old, Ayaan. For Malini, this means she will now get a break from the early morning battle of getting him ready for school, preparing breakfast, and packing lunch for school. The alarm clock […]
60-year old Bikash Dutta’s Poila Boishakh (Bengali New Year) starts with a sprint to the market as opposed to the leisurely strolls he takes with his bajaar-er bag on other days. There’s simply no time to waste today — the fish and meat will be flying off the market at record speed and he needs […]
Flanked by sky-high buildings and corporate architectures, the placid blue-green water bodies to the east of Kolkata have been quietly flushing out the city’s waste for more than a century. While that description may invoke images of filthy, marshy, waste water, it’s not quite so. If you’ve ever passed through the EM bypass that runs […]
Rahul and Smita were dating for close to two years. While Rahul preferred routine and normalcy, Smita was against everything that was typical, institutionalised and common. She hated monotony and he saw that as an opportunity to win her heart and pop the question. He invited her over a cosy dinner at his place. His […]
For many of us, our first introduction to the mighty and majestic Royal Bengal Tigers happened as a wicked cunning villain of Rudyard Kipling’s “Jungle Book”. The same animal in an entirely new avatar was shown in the 2012 film, “The Life of Pi” as a beautiful, friendly companion of a boy lost in the […]
Giving up Maachh (fish) and Mangsho (meat) to cut down their expenses, 85-years old Pannalal Chatterjee and his wife, 76-years old Chaitali Chatterjee live on a shoestring budget. The sacrifice is to save for their World Cup kitty – something that the elderly couple from a middle-class family in Kolkata cannot compromise with. Starting with […]
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