The what’s app group video call made to my relatives had set me thinking. All my handsome relatives with their always clean shaven, hair-dyed and well –kempt look were presently looking really shabby in their white haphazardly grown hair and beard. We all know that the hair and beard does not naturally grow in shape….
Author: Dr Suchita Marathe
Associate Professor in English who loves to ruminate on everyday topics in a fun-filled, humorous manner in small write -ups to lighten up her and others' day too.
Sleeping Beauties and Research Duties!
The title may mislead you into believing that this article is about females only. But as a firm believer of gender equality, I plan to include everyone in the category of sleeping beauties. Why in the first place am I calling all sleeping people beautiful? — because ‘Sleep’ itself is so beautiful. The idea of…
Sweeping analogy
The new broom kept in the corner was beckoning me, but I procrastinated it’s use. The old broom had almost become a stick with all its dry grass sacrificed in the process of making our floors clean day after day. Every day, as I held its balding frame in my hand, I felt as if…
Anger, Anger Burning Bright. Let us dim it alright!
Anger makes the livid people full of sound and fury stand at the doorway of their own decisions stunned by their own words. But decisions taken in anger are always thoughtless and painful. But are they irrevocable? No, because the exactly opposite set of people that is perennially calm people will never be able to…
Silver lining to a grey cloud Corona !
All this war with Corona was going on very well. We had insinuated every necessary measure through our global team to fight this pandemic with all vengeance. When suddenly, my bai (maid) declared that she will also be working from home, in reply to respected Prime Minister Modiji’s call for social distancing. This was bolt…
An urgent plea to claim ourselves back!
Reading Wordsworth’s poem ‘The World Is Too Much with Us’ awakens us to the present state of affairs. We begin to wonder that if as early as in the Romantic age itself, the circumstances had forced the sensitive Wordsworth to compose on the loss of sensitivity in his short poem by writing “Getting and spending…
Hopes of Legal siestas in vain!
The other day we had world sleep day on 13th March and the reason behind writing this article is that we could not sadly celebrate world sleep day in a proper way. It was one of those endless days earmarked to be celebrated by the twenty first century denizens and netizens .They love to dedicate…
