Category: Us people

  • The Round and About.

    The Round and About.

    The experts call it the “Hermit Economy,” where people stay home buying gadgets instead of meeting friends. But in Chennai, there is simply no room to be a hermit.

  • Cultural PTSD and COVID

    Cultural PTSD and COVID

    How COVID lockdowns and media-driven political memory created lasting cultural PTSD—reshaping rituals, trust, polarization, and the “hermit economy,” deepening collective stress.

  • Mama Told Me Not To

    Mama Told Me Not To

    Indian families mastered raising successful children, but sometimes forgot one detail: adulthood requires freedom, not lifelong emotional permission slips disguised as love and duty.

  • The Rajmata Syndrome

    The Rajmata Syndrome

    Motherhood isn’t sacrifice alone; it’s projection, clutter, guilt, and power — from Jijabai to my overflowing fridge stuffed with symbolic edible devotion.

  • The Seventh Vow

    The Seventh Vow

    Blocked and cornered by Tarot, I found friendship not in history or politics, but in Devayani—the character I rejected—returning to demand her rightful story.

  • The Quiet Inheritance Of War

    The Quiet Inheritance Of War

    War didn’t just pass through history—it settled into our behaviour. We adjusted, complied, and froze, mistaking survival instincts for wisdom, and scarcity for a way of life.