My Tryst with Triage

On 16th August, I desperately posted a plea on Facebook asking for rescue teams to help my granduncle and aunt. We had made calls, messages, reachedRead More

Faith

www.icnlive.com It is hard to believe that night has come.All day we waited for news that my Granduncle and aunt were safe.That choppers had reachedRead More

The Toothpaste Lesson

V, our facilities manager, was the Man Friday at my workplace — you needed a home to rent, a tenant for your place, something broken down toRead More

Breathe In. Breathe Out

It is easy to focus on things that go wrong. As we look at one blotch, another pops up. And then another. And finally everythingRead More

Fighting Fear

Yehoshua was due for his shots. My memory of him was that of a baby who waltzed through the appointment without much of a hueRead More

What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal is not a difficult text; the language is simple and situations real. The amount of research that seems to have goneRead More

2015 – You are here

When I started writing, I was distraught, livid. And as the year ended, it seemed to bring just more despair. 2014 was filled with manyRead More