UTTERLY, BUTTERLY
Some beautiful moments in life don’t have names. Unlike falling in love or becoming a parent or watching a sunset or spotting a shooting...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Sep 5
- 4 min
FOOTPRINTS ON THE SAND
Seldom does a session with a psychiatrist begin with a reference to flight delays and air traffic snarls. But that’s how we begin our...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Aug 18
- 4 min
WHAT ARE YOU TO ME?
..When Your name becomes my breath, I realize yet again, that I am alive.. It’s been long since I stripped you of Your halo and brought...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Aug 18
- 1 min
UNTO TO YOU MY EVERYTHING
The heart is closer to God than the mind. Hence surrender comes from the heart easily. Resistance comes from the mind. The mind is...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Aug 13, 2021
- 5 min
The Case of the Missing Earrings
Do you know why we don’t find half the things we search for in life? Because we are looking for the wrong things. Often, in the wrong...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Oct 11, 2020
- 5 min
Not a Mad Man
Ravi isn’t ‘mad’, I reiterated to myself. He is merely sick at heart, like people who are ill with other things.
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Oct 11, 2020
- 5 min
Some People Just Cannot Die
You know, appa, I never believed you could ever go from the face of the earth.
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Nov 3, 2019
- 4 min
Remembering Michelle
It’s the day after Diwali, and I am remembering Michelle. She must be back in California now, after an extended tour of Europe with her...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Oct 10, 2019
- 2 min
A Postcard from Munich
‘Oktoberfest is nothing but a lot of beer,’ a friend had said to me before we left on our recent Bavarian sojourn. It was a dampening...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Oct 6, 2019
- 2 min
‘STRUGGLE’ IS A BEAUTIFUL WORD
‘Struggle’ is a beautiful word, as I am beginning to learn. Like love – all pervasive, touching all creations, leaving indelible marks...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Sep 25, 2019
- 4 min
The Story of How I Became a Writer
I have not learned to write. No one has taken me through the literary paces. I didn’t have literature growing in my backyard. My parents...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Jul 14, 2019
- 2 min
Shades of Grey
It is blazing hot here. The embers that are flaking from the skies are the kind that singed our indoor plants when they transited from...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- May 26, 2019
- 2 min
My Bougainvillea Sprouts Again
It was a crabby day. My anger was unrelenting. It was stuffed in my throat and I wasn’t letting it find a vent. Held captive by my...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Apr 28, 2019
- 2 min
Let there be light
I stare at the screen, trying to fix my next round of Filter Kaapi. I don’t feel inspired to write a story. Speaking anything now seems...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
- Apr 15, 2019
- 3 min
Vishu Kani
For more than one reason, Vishu is my most favourite festive occasion. It unearths my dormant spiritual instincts, combines them with the...
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