The Generation Gap
A generation is all the people in a family, group or country born at the same time. Alternatively, the average time that children take to grow up and have children of their own, usually a span of 25-30 years. Would the Covid years be considered part of a generation which had a succession of descendants […]
Pabuji’s Phad
As a student, I passed a replica of Pabuji’s paintings as I sprinted down the verandah to catch my bus to university. Unless I was in a hurry, I had to stop and stare. They were not royal, but they had a majesty about them which was hard to explain
Not just a prism
This is the second part of the earlier blog entitled “Life through rose-tinted glasses” The subject of Colour traces its birth in Light, and Light takes us back to the moment of Creation. This subject is so deep and vast, and the four years spent by Nina Guleria, a colour therapist and healer, on understanding […]
Squash Fantasy
Skipping across the court with the agility of a galloping gazelle, I stood in the aggression, ready to serve for game and match. A long looping vicious lob served its lethal path to an inevitable winner. But my opponent in a desperate lunge, dug out the spheroid from the back of the court boasting it […]
Life through rose-tinted glasses
In the pink, sad and blue. Purple with rage and white as driven snow. Are you looking at your life through rose tinted glasses? Madhu Nanda, my colleague journalist, talked to Nina Guleria, a colour therapist and healer, asking if we all had an inner spectrum of colour, and by using colours could we influence […]
Lessons in Chemistry
We read “Lessons in Chemistry” at our book club recently which everyone loved. Dr. Lakshmi Rajgopal, retired Consultant Radiologist, reviews the book: “Lessons in Chemistry”, by Bonnie Garmus, is a debut novel about a scientist in the 1960’s who is opinionated, inflexible and intelligent. Unfortunately, Elizabeth Zott has been brutally sidelined by male colleagues. How, exactly, […]
Sibling Rivalry
Kusum Saxena, based in California, writes on the ups and downs of sibling relationships I first met Sarah on a visit to my sister’s house. They were good friends and Sarah used to make a yearly sojourn from Germany to my sister’s place in India. On one particular morning, while at breakfast and sharing […]
Childhood is a precious time
Some of the most evocative memories of childhood are of the home one grew up in, the street that ran adjacent to it and the people who gave it its character … My home in New Delhi, India where I was born and grew up has a galli, or lane running conterminous to the huge […]
It’s not just playing a game; it is painstaking hard work!
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, children have spent a lot of screen-time, often being admonished by their parents. Rohan Woodcock tells us what he has learnt while he has been, according to his mother, playing games! Of the many games in my collection, Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is easily one of my favourites. Behind what […]
Chapman reminisces “…the ‘Pirates Coast’ to the ‘Trucial Coast’ and beyond”
Consequent upon the expulsion of the Portuguese from Bahrain at the beginning of the 18th century and the lack of any maritime authority in the Gulf, the Qawasim – the tribe inhabiting the Arabian Peninsula who originated from Qishm Island – tended to dominate this region. During the latter part of the 18th century, a […]