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The Children We Raise

New Indian Express5d ago

Most of us are familiar with what is loosely called the ‘Generation Gap’, wherein the old and the young fail to understand each other because they have different experiences, habits and...

Child’s Play

New Indian Express5d ago

For generations of Indian children, play meant cricket in the back lane, village football in the fields, cycling around the neighbourhood until the streetlights came on; a board game with cousins...

Conan Doyle Meets Christie

New Indian Express5d ago

There is something almost reassuringly old-fashioned about The Final Problem. In an age when murder mysteries increasingly arrive wrapped in psychological trauma, unreliable narrators and elaborate...

Devotion is Love

New Indian Express5d ago

Some people think that they can do any kind of inferior acts and later go to a tirtha (holy place), perform some prescribed ceremonies, and all their sins will be forgiven. This is a misconception.

Where Stories Take Root

New Indian Express5d ago

The names had taken root long before the trees did. Mani maruthu, Mandharam, Ilanji, Kodappana—were words celebrity author and sreenwriter Anand Neelakantan first encountered in Malayalam songs...