Suyash Sharma

Hinterland village Kochi it was finally, the kids had surprised us by announcing that they were planning to gift us both a well deserved break after having done our bit for the last three decades plus, but not revealing the location and what exactly was in store for us. So Kochi came as a bit

12th class is make or break for a middle class family, or is it? It is a travesty that has plagued the Indian Education system, wherein a child is put through a very stressful two-three years while still in his/her teens. He is told in no uncertain terms that these years will decide your future.

 Sojourn with soldiering has been eventful for personal as well as professional reasons. Professionally, it has been extremely satisfying rubbing shoulders with the best military brains in the country, or should I say locking our knees, as that is where our brains have been lodged, in safe custody, ever since we made this choice of

 Guess what, in the middle of all the chaos at home with trunks open and things littered all over the place, in the process of one final packing of the household for the move back home, I decide to go for a round of Golf. I obviously deserve a medal for gallantry, with the  Lady

 “Freshly minted veteran”, just a day old, and facing the all too familiar expected query,” How does it feel?” “Has the feeling sunken in?” Not sure how to respond to this, as one really doesn’t know. It is just a normal holiday or a Sunday kind of feeling,  may be in a few days it

31st March 2023, a day which seemed so distant a couple of years ago, as though it was in the realms of future somewhere, but ‘time and tide wait for none’, so here I am all of 56, just celebrated my birthday  ten days ago. Human beings are strange we celebrate our growing age, balding

“Enough is enough” or is it? My father said this while we were chatting about something. I was wondering whether enough actually was ever enough and who decided as to what was just enough or a little too much or may be just not enough. How does one conclude if something is adequate, who is

 Holi is the most colourful time in India literally and figuratively, with use of colourful and bawdy language accompanying the rich spectrum of colours which adorn the faces and the attire of the people  it is obviously amongst the most popular in the myriad of  festivals in India. Memories associated with Holi take you back to your

 Why is yellow associated with fear? Do the origins lie in colonialism..”Yellow yellow dirty fellow!”, as a kid this rhyme was recited with gay abandon and God save the kid who was dressed in yellow that day. Orientals are normally different from the black or white people, they are yellow and then there are the South

 “Giving meaningful looks to the teacher”,  was the charge read out to a cadet in the academy. Squadron Leader Malhotra himself a Rimcollian and an ex NDA burst out laughing on hearing the charge, the cadet in question was a bright scholar. He decided to send the erring cadet on liberty to the town to ogle