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- There is one call that comes every morning. We talk, with headphones plugged in as I water the plants. Two sisters in two cities reeling from a pandemic though her city, Delhi, is now suffering…
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- 8am I wake up to the news that a decisive action has been taken, Dragon Fruit will now be called Kamalam. Sometimes I wonder how these ideas are proposed. Does an official call his deputy…
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- 8am While looking for some good news, I chance upon a headline which says India-Pakistan have jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. 2020 may not be such a bad year after all, if our countries…
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- As the Delhi government announced the reopening of city schools, a pall of gloom descended on my home. “This means I’ll have to pay attention in class and can’t just get away with googling answers,”…
- Not so very long ago the word ‘desi’ was often used by us desis as something of less essential worth in comparison with a comparable product or service which was of foreign – preferred pronunciation…
- Very often when you speak over the phone to friends and family they ask you if you have had nashta-pani. It is a cultural mandate and they are not asking for the menu: You don’t…
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