What’s in a word? Plenty, when some get tossed around with more frequency than others. Words – our framework of meaning – are every child’s first open windows to the world. Watching my kids and their friends grow up, my 

Overwhelmed and harried, we watch a band of professional movers pack away 50 years of family life into crates and cases. My husband’s parents have enjoyed this apartment for exactly half a century now – the last 25 years with 

I thought my mum was something she wasn’t really – a much older mother than most. That was half a century back. Having children at 32 and 36 was, then, ‘late’ motherhood. As I sit writing this on a sun-kissed 

It was as bad as forgetting to bring the ring to a wedding. At my sacred thread ceremony, the Navjote, the family discovered we’d left behind the lamb’s wool kusti cord that would circle my waist to initiate me into 

Today’s parents are grappling with an issue no previous generation has faced: social media’s place in our lives and in our children’s lives. Each day this week, at least one post will tackle the topic from a different angle. Read 

All happy families are alike, Tolstoy famously said. Each has wonderfully individual days and ways to celebrate them, we add. The occasions to whoop it up may be many and momentous—birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, retirements. That last one can extend to 

“A Poem a Day for the Month of May” is a key premise and promise in the most recent newsletter from Junoon, a community arts initiative in Mumbai. To quote the group: “We read a delightful article, which shared that 

Not all babies need a quiet hush to fall asleep. I definitely didn’t. Music boomed across our home grandly from a vintage Grundig player in the living room. The volume at which my father enjoyed listening to his beloved composers 

I cheered for Julianne Moore, like millions, as I watched her accept the Academy Award for Still Alice. So many were moist-eyed not just for her performance, but for creditably using her limelight to push for sensitivity to early-onset Alzheimer’s. 

Whether it was 9/11 in the US or 26/11 in Mumbai, Peshawar in December or Paris last month, such horrific events are the toughest to explain to children. It is especially tricky to discuss the issues of terrorism and tolerance 

Toddlers to teenagers, children can’t escape the politics of hate. If the recent Peshawar school massacre is any indication, children are being drawn further and further into adult conflict.  While parents and teachers may not be able to stop children 

Don’t be fooled. For all their dimpled innocence, babies could well be thinking like adults in plenty of ways. Even as they sleep, drool and gurgle the days away, there’s truly much more than a little thought ticking behind those