Mukund could not but marvel at his dear wife. It is just a matter of two years and in such a short time, his mother wants Arati to endorse whatever domestic decision she is planning to take! Oh, what a change in Amma, he wondered!!

Mukund had always been a “mama’s boy”, as the world says. He was aware of it, to his own embarrassment, but could not come out of it ! After marrying Arati also, he was never a demonstrative husband if his mother was around. Arati could easily make out that...

This was narrated to me by a friend Kamini years back. I am just reproducing the same, but with fictitious names:

“I have a cousin, Vani, 5 years younger to me. She was very good looking, but not very smart, though still reasonably smart. I attended her wedding in Coimbatore and lent a helping to my uncle’s family. My cousin’s husband Navin specially mentioned to me that he owed me a big thanks for the very well conducted wedding. I was very happy to receive praise from a new entrant...

I am Kalpana, a small-town girl, brought up under the strict vigilant eyes of my grandparents.
After I finished schooling, a local co-education college was the only option available. Aware of my quest for knowledge, my father convinced my grandparents to allow me to join the same college. I joined the college, after going through an intense training of
“do’s and don’ts in a co-ed college“, courtesy, my aged grandparents.
My first day in college looked insipid to me because the...

I left the shores of our dear country 30 yrs back, as soon as I got married to a U S citizen. I became a US citizen too, in course of time. But I never missed the enjoyable holiday we both undertook with family to meet both side parents, who continued to live In India.

Here, I have to give a brief introduction about myself. I was born and brought up in Bombay. Exposure to a cosmopolitan society in a metro city had its own advantages and disadvantages. When I was in college, I fell...