Maids are an indispensable part of the Indian household. Anupama Krishnakumar’s story is about the equation a woman has shared with two maids at two different points in her life.
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Categories: Fiction
Tag: people
People. How many there are and just how different from one another! Their sheer variety gives rise to a fascinating world of characters jostling for space, waiting to stand out. Inspired by a face or a silhouette, a character is born in the mind of the writer and she or he grows to be a personality sculpted by words and they dwell, sometimes as the writer wants them to, and at others, just the way they wish. Welcome to the world of people. We, the people. The real ones, the imagined ones that are shadows of the real.
Insignificance
Where Have You Gone?
Perumal Murugan’s ‘Pyre’ : Intense, Lyrical and Stirring
Discussing Tara
Bringing Human Spirit to the Fore
Be it capturing the spirit of the city, telling inspiring life stories of people or spreading positivity by aiding social causes, city-themed Facebook pages in India are becoming wonderful platforms that bring the human spirit to the fore. The people behind Humans of Bombay, Humans of Bangalore and Humans of Madras talk to me about what it means to be running inspiring Facebook pages that have transformed the way people look at the life of a person on the street.
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Categories: Features
Sarah
Breakfast Stories With Uncle Fred
A photograph becomes the subject of a conversation between two men over breakfast. A story of two people whose lives revolve intensely around art.
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Categories: QueSTorieS
Still Not Done
Absence
A journalist sways during her journey from one point to another. Here’s a story of an addict.
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Categories: QueSTorieS