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Are you eating crumbs falling under the table? Right next to where I write this column everyday, I have a

February 4, 2021

Initially, as news of the horrible virus spread, terrified people hurried for flimsy masks available at stores, rummaged for thicker,

February 3, 2021

She was over eighty, and not too sure of her steps as she fumbled to find the bannister railing, when

February 2, 2021

“We are ranked first as the cleanest city in India!” muttered some municipal boss to his subordinate in the city

February 1, 2021

’Tis a cold winter here in America where I’ve been the last month.’ I wrote this three years ago, while

January 31, 2021

My initial years of writing were spent in exploring poetry and then one day as a sixteen year old, through

January 30, 2021

She’d decided to go abroad on a scholarship, but I found her crying a few days before she had to

January 29, 2021

Sometime ago while speaking at a function on the role of writers I saw a young lady putting her head

January 28, 2021

Till 1967, seventeen states in the USA, banned interracial marriages! That same year the law was found unconstitutional and thrown

January 27, 2021

A scene I remember ever so vividly years ago is that of going over to visit a friend’s sister just

January 26, 2021

Today, on India’s Republic Day, I am proud to be a citizen of the world’s largest democracy: Of a land

January 25, 2021

I must confess I do enjoy occasionally a glass of draught beer straight from the tap! But last year for

January 24, 2021

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