I was walking back from the shopping center when I saw two girls sitting against a shop window playing a song through their mobile phone. A piece of cloth was spread before them for money. They seemed to be from a good […]

After being stuck in the house for seven months, we made an effort to go to the coast on the weekend with a couple of friends. Even that little break from the monotonous routine was enough to clear my head and have […]

I wake up, from a fretful sleep. It is a wet, windy and depressing morning. I settle down in the bed as usual and start writing. For the next two hours, it is just me and my words. My husband is not […]

Imagine if you were a woman who was cat-called — and you decided to interview your cat-caller.  This is exactly what Eleanor Gordon-Smith, an Australian journalist, did. Cat-calling or eve-teasing is nothing new to women. Every one of us has so many stories tucked […]

Bronnie Ware is a hospice nurse from Australia. Her work involves caring for patients who are terminally ill and may pass away within 12 weeks. A few years back, she started recording the dying epiphanies of her patients. She asked her patients […]