As a child, the author was fortunate to sail on one of the greatest passenger ships of her time, RMS Queen Elizabeth. For her, it was a wonderful journey of exposure to new things, new environments, new people, new friends, new cuisines. This post is the second part of the series called “Across the seas […]
Passenger ships do not exist today but if you’ve seen the movie “Titanic”, you would have an idea of how life was like, in these voyages. Read on and find out what the author experienced in her journey across the seas, aboard three passenger ships of the late 1950s namely Caledonia, Queen Elizabeth and Corfu.
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The migrant worker crisis in India today has pushed us to question the values that we stand for as a country. Do we see ourselves as a country of kind people who believe in helping the less fortunate? Do we prioritize inclusive growth? Hope this story of a migrant worker will inspire you to start
My family shifted to Delhi when my father was appointed a Scientist at the National Physical Laboratory. We began living in a rented house at East Patel Nagar. Thus began our life in Delhi of the early sixties. Today, almost six decades later, I continue to live in Delhi. In fact, I am domiciled in
Have you been to Kerala? Have you ever travelled in a vallam (a country boat)? Experience the beauty of the famous backwaters of Kerala as the author experienced it, in her childhood. It is 24th August 2019. I am in Kerala for a vacation. I have nothing to do. So I take my mobile and
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The Indo – Pak war in 1965 was a seventeen day war over the cause of Kashmir, that brought about thousands of casualties in both India and Pakistan. This post brings back some childhood memories of life in Delhi, during this war, as the author experienced. It was September 1965. We were living in New
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Children can observe from their environment in ways that we can hardly imagine! It is sad that today with more emphasis on technology-based activities, they are hardly given a chance to explore their surrounding, in the most natural and God-gifted ways. This story of the operations of a piano shop from the eyes of a
The red velvet mites are bright red coloured bugs that live under the soil, until it starts to rain. My early childhood was spent in Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Secunderabad had been the British Cantonment. It was a quiet place with lots of open spaces, those days. My maternal great-grandfather chose to settle in Secunderabad. I
