This article was first published as a featured post on Women's Web in April, 2023. TW: grief, loss It was a planned second pregnancy, like…
Urmi ChakravortyAugust 15, 2023
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
I still remember the first time my husband, then a young Flying Officer in the Indian Air Force, went to Punjab on what was known…
Urmi ChakravortyJune 18, 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
