Aruna Chakravorty

The flock of egrets had been startled by the rushing train at Indiranagar. As they rose together, their white plumage flapping against the sunlight of a hard noon, they seemed to make the ugly...

She had laid eyes on him only three minutes back; they were introduced only five minutes back, and she knew he was hers to have. What was there to dislike in him Large dreamy eyes, tousled...

How have you planned to celebrate this New Year Well, I am sure most of you will attend or host parties to bring out the old and usher in the new. These parties are much awaited and surely, a...

The good thing about an Indian ceremony is that you get great food to gorge on. And after living in Chennai for five years now, I can say with certainty that the Tamil sadya is something to look...

Keeping the Kolu is a way of worshipping the Universal Mother during Navarathri. Preparationsfor Kolu decorations are sometimes done months in advance. Dolls are bought, themes are planned and...

If an easy classification of mankind were possible, I would like to divide them into the `keepers’ and the `throwers’. The `keepers’ being the kind who keep everything that even...

The last thing I want is to confront a faceless masked monster, robbing me of my valuables at knife-point. Recent burglaries in the city have been unnerving to say the least. An uneasy fear...