Reflecting on the passing away of the last of my grandparents.
Tag: Life
STORY-TIME: PART II— THE AFTERMATH AND MORE
The worst part of having an accident at home is having to entertain an unannounced guest right after the accident! Moments after the fire was doused and we heaved a sigh of relief, the doorbell rang. It was our distant relative. Hospitable as we are, we welcomed the guest as if it was just another…
EATING FANCY FOOD AS A ‘FOMO’
As a self-proclaimed foodie and someone who was recently bed-ridden completely for a week, I might be less qualified to ask the following question, but here it is— Do we now eat food out of FOMO— fear of missing out— rather than for its essential function of sustenance and nutrition? We are surrounded by a…
QUESTIONS
Oftentimes some questions can be really thought-provoking, answering a lot of curiosities; but at other times, some questions can simply leave one perplexed and dazed. For DK (Nasseruddin Shah) from Masoom, it was mostly the latter case. DK is caught tongue-tied on numerous occasions when his illegitimate son, Rahul (Jugal Hansraj) asks him certain questions….
THE QUALMS OF QUARANTINE
Samuel Beckett in his play ‘Waiting for Godot’ (1953) talks about two aged and peculiar men waiting for a man named, well, Godot. Set in an isolated barren land, presenting an obscured image, with nothing but a drying leafless tree in sight, the play is a representative of the post-world-war dilemma and hopelessness. The two…
THE UNPLANNED PLANS
“You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. No plan at all. You know why? Because life cannot be planned… You cannot go wrong with no plans.” – A dialogue from the movie ‘Parasite‘ Papa has mostly been an absentee father for most of the time we were growing up. He was…
SWEET EVERYTHINGS
They collided and fell, hard. “You alright?” “I am. You? It was a bad fall.” “Yeah! But don’t you hide. Your face tells you are hurt. Tell me.” “Eh! Look at your face. It is worse than it normally is. You are hurt. Let me see it.” “I said I am fine. And my face?…
अभिभावक
पल प्रतिपल बच्चे बढते चले जाते हैं इस तथ्य को वे नहीं स्वीकार पाते हैं शायद इसलिये ही, उनके लिये, बच्चे बड़े नहीं, कपड़े छोटे हो जाते हैं..
Weekly Photo Challenge- ORDER
Is ‘order’ invariably the ‘order of day’. How important it actually is? Do all the things in ORDER are perfect and the things OUT OF ORDER, well, not so perfect? Not always. What fun does a perfectly perfect and orderly life hold! NONE. There’s fun in unpredictibility, there’s fun in situations going haywire; But only…
REALITY
It isn’t as bad as it looks. It isn’t as good as it looks. It just IS.
Sucheta Writes 