The Provoke Awards 3.0 was the talk of the town all of last month and for good reason too. It wouldn’t be wrong for us to call our three-year -old baby the best awards show in Chennai! And this is not something we’re assuming. We’ve...
Lonely Planet had touted Sri Lanka as the best destination for 2019. With the Easter blasts however, the country was taken off the travel radar in one straight blow. The government of Sri Lanka recently declared the place open and safe for tourism, and we...
Super Deluxe (Tamil): Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Super Deluxe is a film that speaks about a lot of things. The director gets the canvas to philosophize on relationships shared between mothers and sons, husbands and wives, and their interactions with the world outside their homes. When a...
How would you define yourself? I would define myself as a passionate, loyal, emotional, focused, sensitive, straight-forward and adventurous girl who is a dreamer with a do or die attitude. If someone tells me I can’t do something, I’m definitely going to do it. The...
Up until very recently, (three years ago, to be precise,) my definition of freedom meant being allowed to stay out at a friend’s place for a sleepover. No kidding! Being the only girl child raised in a conservative family meant that I was always expected...
When AR Swaminathan, (affectionately called Swami), embarked on a journey to the US to complete his masters, he came across a Chinese proverb that said: a journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step. Taking this first step, after completing his schooling at...
Life is full of surprises and the story of Avantika Heblikar stands testimony to that. A public relations consultant who then switched to social media consulting, Avantika is now a social entrepreneur and the boss of her own brand, Rustic Motifs. Being part of a...
Hurrah! We, as a nation, turn 73 this month and I for one am all geared up to see the sudden one-day-long patriotic surge that will explode all around me. It’s going to be everywhere — television, social media, radio and even within my close...
Love — a lingering logic unknown to the brain. Love — a reality known to that heart, which beats in emotional time. That heart — of a person who wears love on their sleeve. This love on the sleeve — an avalanche of emotions for...
For millenniums, the sun was the only source of light and human behaviour followed a natural day-night cycle. Certain occupations, however, meant shift work even in ancient times — think soldiers, priests, bakers, etc. Since very few people were involved in work which interrupted the...
