FOR ONCE, REMEMBERING APPA WITHOUT GRIEF
‘Happy Durgashtami.’ The messages have been coming in steadily since morning. It is a day of celebration for Hindus all over the world. A...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Sep 26, 20223 min read
THE DAY AN AUTHOR MATURED
A book launch is an event of great significance for any author. Every single time, like a new mother, it puts the author in a cauldron of...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Sep 17, 20226 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20221 min read
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 12, 20224 min read
LOVE DOTS
My 10 O' Clock flowers have been out of sorts, of late. They have been dormant for several weeks now. It is if they have suffered a deep...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Aug 6, 20223 min read
'JAB' TAK HAI JAAN
So finally, I have checked the Covid box and become part of modern history. Not as a witness, but as a survivor. By now, a sizeable...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Aug 6, 20223 min read
A GIFT FOR SOMEONE YOU LOVE
Buying a present has always been a vexing task for me. The tedium starts from a preliminary question – Is it necessary? Although the...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Aug 6, 20223 min read
THE GIRL WHO FEARED FLOWERS
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who was afraid of flowers. Yes, that sounds like a stretch, but there are verified accounts of...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Aug 6, 20225 min read
HOW I LEARNT TO LOVE MY LAUNDRY
Back in my time, the growing years of a girl entailed being a part of household chores as a practice. (Since this is not a gender-bender...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Aug 6, 20223 min read
SPEAKING OF LONELINESS
Loneliness is a cruel companion. It accosts those who crave it, initially as sweet solitude, taking time to grow on them and then like a...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Aug 6, 20223 min read
LOVE, UNLIMITED
If there is one thing that can make us feel more alive than others, If there is one thing that can make us relevant to all times, If...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Aug 6, 20224 min read
A dog's life. Why not?
My mother is a very orthodox lady. A lady whose childhood was spent in the confines of a large family and its conservative diktats....
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Aug 6, 20223 min read
I AM A BLOODY WOMAN
I am a late bloomer of sorts. I entered puberty much after my classmates did, got married after most of them had had their first child; I...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Aug 6, 20225 min read
A RIDE TO REMEMBER
The first time I visited Delhi after the Nirbhaya case, it was as if I had touched down on a landmine filled area. The very atmosphere...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Aug 6, 20223 min read
SCENT OF THE RAIN
I remember walking around the Lal Darwajah market in Ahmedabad on a blistering afternoon several years ago, filing past the riotous...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Aug 6, 20224 min read
Being Malayali in New Delhi
Many things have apparently changed in India in the two years I was stubbornly stationed in Dubai skirting my Covid fears. One of them is...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Aug 27, 20213 min read
This Day, That Age
And then there are those who love a good contest. Stiff competitions are what keep them pumped. Not me. I say this neither with conceit...
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Asha Iyer Kumar
Oct 11, 20202 min read
The Sun doesn't Set these Days
These days, strangely, the sun doesn’t set. It merely melds into a haze, smudging the horizon with its veiled presence for a while before...
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