The year has been unpredictable. It’s derailed plans, changed cultures, redefined businesses and destroyed economies. It’s strained relationships, nurtured some too, highlighted behavioural flaws like never before and triggered our subconscious fears, dilemmas, thoughts in ways we might still not understand. …

It was always through words that I strolled “beside the lake, beneath the trees”, imagining what it would be like in this part of the world. Ever since I was a child, “I’ve wandered lonely as a cloud”, dreaming, visualising, fantasising the various wonders beautifully wrapped in a string of…

I was 15. My school broke-off for the summer and I immediately set out on a 13-hour drive from Nainital to Chandigarh. My mother had just returned home from her second session of chemotherapy and I was going to see her for the first time since the surgery. I walked…

It was close to midnight and 90-year-old Puro Devi was fast asleep on a small cot in the confines of her home. After weeks of continuous rain, the night was calm. A loud bang on the iron gate affixed at the entrance to her front yard woke Puro up with…