RELATIONSHIPS: COLUMNS AND STORIES
Relationships
My life is a web of relationships. The great Indian joint family.
Messy, loving, crazy, contradictory, complex, never easy
But it defines who I am and what I value.
Connections: between people, place and time.
Do relationships make you or do you make them?
With love comes the ability to forgive. Only if you are able to forgive can you overlook slights, flaws, mistakes and miscommunication
While the Dalai Lama talks about loving-kindness meditation as a way to bridge divides, it is essentially about assuming goodwill.
Relationships are defined by connection
Connections can happen perchance but require care to flourish. Ultimately, it is these connections that define the human experience.
This web of connections floats to the surface in cultures such as India, where people are forced into proximity, thanks to density. What you do with (and to) the people around you defines character.
How you behave in times of stress depends on how you value what is at hand.
Relationships and connections are supreme in the path to happiness.
Relationship columns
Love after fifty
Fifty by heart Love after 50 is a complex dance; it is also just habit Shoba Narayan Elizabeth Taylor and husband Richard Burton at Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, 1963. Photo: SSPL/Getty Images Love after 50 is a loaded phrase: one that [...]
New Column in HT Brunch: about parenting your parents and other joys of life
So excited for my new column in HT Brunch. Beginning, Sunday, February 18th in HT Brunch.
This Indian Life: new column for HT Brunch
Every generation thinks of itself as the sandwich generation: caught between parents and children. This generation however is different, I believe. Because of advances in medical science, our parents are living longer. These are some of the things I write about in this new column. What unites today’s India besides a love of spicy food, film songs, cricket and big fat weddings? I would say that many of us are parenting our parents – and an assortment of uncles, aunts, and random elders whose children live beyond our shores. It is equal parts frustration and comedy livened with moments of tenderness that borders on the sublime.
Indian proverbs
Every old culture has amazing pithy sayings that we have all heard from our grandmothers. How many of us use proverbs to make a point these days. The proverbial power of words! In a game of words, proverbs can often [...]
How to buy a cow…and other stories
The book is about — and owes its existence to — the generosity of spirit and the eloquence of its protagonist.
Vanity Phone numbers and what they say about you
What should you do when you can pick the digits of your phone number? Ask the astrologer of course! To get her new SIM card, my mother called up our family astrologer to pick the number accordingly