Recently, I read about a furore created over the word ‘aunty’. Apparently, the aggrieved person had barely stepped into her forties and hence, vehemently rebuffed…
Urmi ChakravortyAugust 21, 2022
Aah, the race for a resolution. The end of the calendar year, any year, fills me with an uncanny trepidation and angst. As the year…
Urmi ChakravortyJune 18, 2022
Just the other day I bumped into an old friend, my college mate – we were meeting after like, what would easily be a year.…
Urmi ChakravortyApril 15, 2022
It is that time of the year when our young adults are prepping hard for various examinations – regular annual exams in school, the final…
Urmi ChakravortyApril 8, 2022
It’s been exactly a year since I woke up to the devastating news of a bright 18-year old girl passing away by suicide. We had…
Urmi ChakravortyApril 8, 2022
As the coronavirus lockdown moves from one phase into the next, I realise that I don’t seem to get as agitated or alarmed as I…
Urmi ChakravortyApril 7, 2022
We first spotted him one balmy afternoon, about four summers back, all coiled up amidst a huge heap of loose cotton flakes (discarded from an…
Urmi ChakravortyApril 7, 2022
Flipping through the pages of an old family album whose thin plastic flap covers had turned translucent with time, I chance upon a photograph of…
Urmi ChakravortyApril 7, 2022
