One evening, this January, I ventured up to the mottai-madi, the open terrace, to welcome the onset of darkness. The sun was still an orange-red ball. Flocks of rose-ringed parakeets, whizzed towards their nightly roosts, squawking…
The name engraved on yellowing marble called out to me. “Luz House,” the very name had gravitas, a certain ring to it. My errand was in Baliah Avenue, only a few steps away from this…
The wealth of contemporary Tamil literature has always been just out of reach for readers like me who speak the mother tongue well enough but tend to stumble over the printed word. But you don't…
In 1836, T.C. Jerdon, a 25-year-old surgeon, arrived in the Madras Presidency. After training at the General Hospital, he was sent to treat troops battling insurgency in a district nearly halfway to the Calcutta Presidency.…
Meenakshi I am a green goddess.My name means Fish-eye:like a fish-mother, whose eyes never close,I'm always watching over my children. Yes, fish eat their young - I do that too.I protect the city, I destroy…
And so the talk turned to sons who don't take as good care of their ageing parents as they should. The blame shifts to the daughter-in-law. The son gets off the hook -- old story.…