Life of a girl, in the times of Covid
What keeps me going is the hope that I get to go to school at least one more precious day before I don’t have the chance to anymore.
What keeps me going is the hope that I get to go to school at least one more precious day before I don’t have the chance to anymore.
I don’t understand the Sinhala, Muslim or religious contradictions. But it was disappointing that there were people who didn’t even want to hear a chicken crow.
I’m often called a “boy,” and I think it’s meant to be an insult, but I do not associate my worth with the length of my hair any longer.
The bride’s father walking his daughter down the aisle, isn’t it essentially the woman being handed around from a man to another?
I think. I firmly believe. Only now has my mother found the right person for her. In her face, I see new waves of joy every day.
Most of the time, most of us react to incidents more than what they deserve. That’s where we lose. There is a story which I read long back and I felt it suits well for what I have started to write.
Reading or telling yourself these affirmations can help you achieve an optimistic mindset. After all, it is all that we need.
Though Mythili Sivaraman was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease she remembered the word ‘Comrade’ and that shows how much it has impacted her life.
It all started with Esther’s phone call on a lazy summer morning, way too early for my liking. Sleep interrupted by the blaring ringtone, I woke up with a start, stirring from under my pile of blankets in the least graceful way possible.
Let’s live with words and share only the beautiful ones which can lighten up someone’s day or their life.
She said, “They do not eat meat, they are Brahmins.”
“If they do not eat, I will eat. Why they can’t give it to me? ”I argued over the phone with my mom.
There is hope that all gets back to normal, there is belief that we’ll achieve everything we want and there will be happy endings as well.
Madras Central Railway Station. The movie reel box had arrived from Bombay by train. Thousands of people crowded the busy Wall Tax road through which the reel box was taken to Kinema Central- where the movie was to be screened. People all along the roads showered flowers, broke open coconuts on the roads, showed ‘arti’ and burnt incense sticks, welcoming the reel. “Watch for yourselves, the first talkie featuring your favorite star TP Rajalakshmi dance and sing in Tamil and Telugu” screamed the posters all along and “The famous drama artiste TP Rajalakshmi for the first time in a talking cinema”, announced loudspeakers in cars and automobiles. The first talkie of Tamil Cinema, Kalidas, rested squarely on the tender shoulders of a girl, who was barely 20, married at 7 and divorced at 11!
Hannah Ratnam Krishnama @ Kamala Sathianathan Nivedita Louis 1898… Senate House, Madras University. The Graduation Ceremony is underway. The names are called out and students…