Some books take you somewhere you've never been. And then there are books that take you somewhere you remember dearly. Lallan Sweets felt a little like that to me. Set in the small town of Siyaka in the 1990s, the book follows Tara, her family, an old friendship, a sweet shop, and a rather unusual search for the secret ingredient in her grandfather's laddoos. But strangely, it wasn't the mystery that stayed with me. It was the world around it, the 1990s, those Hindi songs, th

The first raindrops arrived before the rain itself. A faint fragrance drifted through the open window. Soft, earthy, familiar. Within seconds, I knew it had started raining somewhere nearby. There is something almost magical about that smell. The scent of dry earth meeting rain after a long wait. A fragrance so ordinary that most of us have known it since childhood - Petrichor !!! And yet, every time it arrives, it feels like a visitor we are happy to welcome back. I walked

Some stories stay with us because of what happens. Others stay with us because of where they take us. And every once in a while, a story quietly changes the way you look at an entire era. That was my experience while watching Made in India: A Titan Story. I began watching it expecting a story about Titan, about watches, entrepreneurship, about one of India's most respected companies. And it certainly is all of that. But somewhere along the way, my attention wandered beyond th