Thinking Got Loud

Here is the thing about one of the famous tropes in Tamil cinema – the flashback.   Sometimes it actually makes no logical sense, especial...

Articles and tweets on the horrific Asifa tragedy have made me feel rather depressed in recent days thinking of the world in which kids li...

If you know me really well, you already know this – I hate goodbyes.  This whole separation business - I easily go bankrupt!  My mind goes...

Paati  in Tamil means grandmother.  But I don’t think my husband has ever addressed his maternal grandma that way!  At around the time I g...

Summer of 1993 – I was still a year away from entering my teens.   My Aunt (who passed away in 2016) and Uncle had moved temporarily to an ...

In my early years, gratitude was a value that I could see on display in pretty much every close member of my family.   To be grateful to Go...

Nayagan , one of the indisputably great classics of Thamizh cinema, is best remembered as Kamal Hassan’s acting tour de force.   As they sa...