THE LOUNGE | SLICE OF LIFE Paris is known as the city of love and lights. But is that all? In her recent visit to this city, Anusha Singh discovered an air of liberation that women enjoy, something that she misses in most parts of India.
THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE Subhashini reviews Parth Pandya’s ‘r2i: Return to India: A Tale of Living India-genously’, a memoir of an NRI’s journey back to India after spending two decades away from it. It is ‘an effortless read and the author’s incisive wit and wry humour keep the pages turning,’ she says.
THE LOUNGE | INNER JOURNEY At one point, we must start our own lives and accomplish our responsibilities as adults. Do we ever stop and think of our good ol’ days as kids, when we were free to think about the stars and believe in tooth fairies? Anna’s piece delves into the difference between these two worlds and how these mould our picture of the ‘real’ world.
THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE Ajay Ramachandran writes about his experiences reading the works of P.G. Wodehouse, what worked for him and how he thinks Wodehouse will fare in the future: ‘…as long as Shakespeare and Dickens are read, Wodehouse will also be’, he says.
THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE Ananya Sarkar reviews Mohsin Hamid’s novel Exit West, which is about two nationals of an unnamed Asian city, who are forced to flee their homes when a militant insurgency takes place.
THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE Bakul Banerjee reviews Arundhati Roy’s latest novel ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’.
THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE Most of us are aware of authors like Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, who are feted in the West. There are, however, many other Indian authors who write beautifully and connect very well with the Indian masses. Harshita Nanda writes about Anuja Chauhan, whose work may qualify as chick-lit, but if you read carefully you might be surprised.
THE LOUNGE | SLICE OF LIFE After finishing a picture-perfect vacation, Jyothi Murthy gets nostalgic about an old “not-so-picture-perfect trip” when the world was devoid of the internet or cashless transactions but full of human interactions. She muses if the world lost out on something more essential in the name of planning and being prepared.
THE LOUNGE | INNER JOURNEY We all want to be happy in life. But we seek it out at the destination conditional upon reaching a goal. What we fail to realise is that happiness is our core state of being. It need not be chased outside. When we live by gratitude and contentment, we work with, not for, happiness; and we find true happiness, that is not disturbed by whether we achieve or fail, writes Snigdha Mohanty.