Tag: family

  • Acridonna Tea and Displaced Feminism

    Acridonna Tea and Displaced Feminism

    Acridonna humorously reflects on her experiences with various women managers, portraying their manipulative tactics in the workplace as a continuation of familial dynamics, all while enjoying a soothing cup of tea.

  • Canara Chronicles — Rice, Revelry and Aunty Sass

    Canara Chronicles — Rice, Revelry and Aunty Sass

    MonteFest Of the Canara Christians. As Aunt Silvi leaned back in her old wooden chair, surrounded by a fragrant waft of coconut oil and incense, she raised an eyebrow at her nieces, Doris and Dahlia, who had come home for Montefest. “Ah, Montefest! You two city girls must have forgotten all about it, no? Too…

  • Traditionally Yours

    Traditionally Yours

    “It is a family tradition” Radhika looked up, every damn thing here seemed to be tradition, which end you eat the mango from to who dices the melon. It was rather irritating.  But guess that was what traditions are all about, the Deshpande family has been thinking, behaving and doing things this particular way, considering…

  • Breaking family cycles

    Breaking family cycles is the start of change. Dealing with family patterns I realized is the important work during healing be itself or someone’s it is also the hardest. Though we tend to believe that in leaving our childhood homes and embarking upon the journey of adulthood we have effectively removed ourselves  from the harmful…

  • Family Meditation.—a life long gift.

    Family Meditation.—a life long gift. Families that eat together stay together is something that we have all heard. Here is another one that I read, a family that meditates together grows together. Coming to think of it, many families have the tradition of evening prayers together, or morning prayers together, I don’t mean of the…

  • Constantinople calls

    An ideal family holiday is something for everyone, and one for the road. No schedules no deadlines, window shopping, adventure eating, something old something new, Constantinople east and west becomes destination best. “Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole…