The author is a collector of moments, a creator of new vistas.

Your eyes close again as the mango nears your mouth and your teeth sink into the strands on the seed. This repeated movement on all sides of

Now I will always be petrified Of offering my seat To any pregnant girl on her feet.

“Oh! It flew away! I had bought it hoping to let it free, so I never locked the door. The bird was so habituated to being locked, it did not

“Before you write, think Once you write, do not scratch the ink.”

I think it is the sunshine that melts away the shroud I will take this sense of gay back home with me I vowed.

The hillock top came back to life, activity was starting again. The family and well wishers could now go ahead with the funeral. Arti's moth

Sitting there all day, every day, filled her with wonder and despair. Would she always just be someone's sixth daughter and nothing more?

Plenty of questions. No answers.

It was the last time anyone spoke about her rank or her spectacles or the braces on her teeth. She did not lose any friends, made some in fa

It is the ideal time to daydream This has to be life's perfect theme!

It began when someone asked me: “Do you write?” I had said “No”.

Proud to be Indian

Leaders lead from the front-SJ was the face of Apple. Great leaders are in a league of their own. They face extreme highs and lows and have

The stone sculptures of Buddha at the Ajanta caves at Aurangabad, Maharashtra India, made by monks and followers of Buddhism so many hundred

What will it take to make modern India celebrate its festivals the traditional way again?

History is so boring at school and so interesting when someone tells it like a story, and that too outdoors!

One look at the bag and there was pleasant surprise, exclamations and loud cheer from the vendor and his assistants!

She had had many ‘best friends’ before and had received many gifts too. This was the first time someone had put in so much thought, effort a

A street vendor, who had been standing under the blazing sun for a couple of hours already, without a cap or turban to cover his head, cons