A Special Secret Place Sometimes, I want to be alone, to share my sorrows, my victories, my joys, and my losses with no one. It is momentary but is my moment of truth; something that I have enjoyed ever since I discovered my special secret...
The First Wedding I Ever Attended Weddings are always special and so much fun. The first wedding I attended was my Uncle’s wedding in Delhi. Our house was regally decorated with lights and flowers. While ladies played the drums, the children downed sweets, played hide...
Gone Fishing I celebrated my birthday party at the beautiful Rainbow Lake surrounded by ‘Weeping willows’. Four close friends were invited and we got down to packing the essentials. I packed the new fishing rod and the motorboat while daddy and mummy packed the mats,...
Mango Grove During the summer holidays, I, with my cousins, visited a mango grove near our house. We entered the grove, crawling beneath the fence, hiding ourselves from the gardener. The place looked very enticing and our mouths were watering. We Couldn’t wait to aim...
Sharing Is Caring Our Diwali was different this year as we decided to share the festive joys with children from an orphanage. In the evening, we dressed up in new clothes and picked up our little friends. The delight on their faces was writ all...
She Is Still My Friend Beautiful and brilliant, that’s what she was — my friend Sarah, at primary school. We always stayed together and shared all our sorrows and joys. One summer, when I rejoined school, I learnt that Sarah had moved to Russia with...
My Best Friend I made my first best friend as soon as I entered this world! Yes, she was my fifty-year-old grandmother for whom I had a special Name-Manna. She was the closest friend I knew for the first five years of my life and...
Devaluation of Values Let us first consider what we know about the meaning of the word values. The values that individuals or societies have, make them a species apart, first from the animals, and then from each other. It is values that go to identify...
Children Have Their Woes/Reasons All of us have reasons for doing and saying whatever we do or say. But we elders normally fail to understand that children also have their own worries and their own reasons. We somehow refuse to believe that the child is,...
Life is Better for Us than What It Was for Our Forefathers When we talk of forefathers we may include our elders from the very early stages of life. So, if we see the life of the early man and that of ours today, we...
