Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The other day, I was chatting with a group of friends when the conversation veered around on how the times are changing, how neither small girls nor old women are safe in our country, how the crime is increasing, how the boys are indulging in sexual crimes. “We must do something, may […]Read More
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Saurabh Tankha …and the world came crashing down. “The FNAC (Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology) report is positive. Your wife has cancer”. For years after the doctor who broke this news to us at Delhi’s Holy Family Hospital in 2006, I wondered with how much ease and comfort could he say it. Perhaps he was a professional, […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The other day I was watching an episode Sister Mariam’s Dilemma of Zindagi Ke Crossroads on Sony TV. Of and on I do watch this serial since they show some complex issues through small fictional stories and then discuss what a person stuck in a difficult life situation should do, also discussed […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha I have been travelling by Delhi Metro regularly ever since it started operations in the city. Initially, when the trains were new, people were a little in awe of these meticulously clean compartments and they travelled with care. I remember there used to be pin-drop silence in the compartments, at best travellers […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha So as suddenly as it had erupted, the Padmavati/Padmaavat row has died. This makes me think. What was it all about, why was it? Why were people so agitated over a movie, a film that its producer said was historical fiction? How, suddenly, after the movie is screened and has already made […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The ban on sale of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR has come too close to Diwali which makes it quite tough to implement it, more so, as production has already been done. A huge amount of money has already been invested in the purchase of crackers by Delhi shopkeepers, and a ban on sale […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha For some days now… no not days, I think months, I have been wanting to write this letter. But, before I pen down my thoughts, let me tell you that that I am quite a rational person. To me all people are equal, no matter to what religion, caste, creed, faith, state, […]Read More
With her two huge bags, she occupied more than her fair share of space. Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha This Father’s Day is the sixth one I am observing without my papa. I lost him in 2011, to a very debilitating Parkinson’s disease. But that is not what I want to remember him as. I want to remember him as a dashing Colonel of Indian Army, Ram Rattan Sharma, who was […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Watching Hindi serials on the idiot box is literally becoming a pain in the neck. Most serials have nothing else to offer except the “decked up scheming” women. Pick up any serial and you come across women with Obsessive Compulsive Syndrome for the men they love or propose to love. I wonder […]Read More