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HEARING the latest Bollywood song, 'Manike', on the radio brought back fond memories of my trip to Sri Lanka last year. It was just before civil turmoil gripped the country, and life was peaceful. Originally a Sri Lankan song written in Sinhalese, 'Manike' quickly went viral thanks, to social media.
Leaving one’s home is never easy, especially when one has to bid adieu to a house that has been one’s home for a long time. But with my father’s recent retirement from the PGIMER, Chandigarh, we said goodbye to the house given to him for his public service — a house where we
A worrying situation confronted me as I left the passport office recently. Having left my cell phone in the car, I came back to a dozen missed calls from one of my closest friends who now lives in San
913 Rishabh Kochhar Summer brings with it some of the best fruits that nature has to offer — mangoes, juicy litchis, sweet musk melons and bright red strawberries that I love making daiquiris with. But summers also bring along load-shedding, making the days, and often nights, hard to bear. These last few weeks have been particularly hard because of unprecedented power cuts across Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. So when the lights went out the other day as I picked up a book, my mind drifted off to a weekend trip to New York a couple of years ago, when a power cut ruined my plans of painting...
764 Rishabh Kochhar With the coronavirus back with a newfound vengeance, I had to cancel a trip to the hills with my friends. I never thought that missing a trip to the hills would haunt me so much because growing up, I hated the mountains. My family’s annual retreat to my aunt's place in Shimla would see us walking aimlessly along the Mall Road, having lunch with old family friends, and tea with another acquaintance. While my parents loved these endless walks, I abhorred them. But after spending the better half of the last decade in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and remote Manipal, I grew ...