A humming word

There are few movies that will tear you up and there are fewer movies that take a dose from reality and do that and that’s the movie: Tumhari Sulu , played perfectly by Vidya Balan. The movie will remind you of someone: our own personal Sulu. We all know a Sulu amongst us. A mother. A sister. A wife. Or could be any woman you know who moulds her life as per her family responsibilities.   Yes. Yes. Men are great and are equally wonderful.   But just focussing on Sulu here. The quintessential mother or any responsible person who wakes up at 5:30 am and carries on her chores, unquestionably. Be it rain or hail. Her clockwork avatar is difficult to emulate. Try waking up at 5:30 am for a couple of days knowing the pile of responsibility apart from work and you’d be shaken. But for Sulu it is the norm. But with a difference. She has the zeal and the zest to do something. She makes daal with equal fervour as she makes love. She plays lemon and spoon with the same focus a...

As summer looms over our head and the prickly heat powder steps out of the cupboards, the yearning for mangoes (best part of summer) begins too. But did you know that Gandhiji planted a mango tree in Abids at Sarojini Devi Naidu's house Golden Threshold on March 9, 1934? (It was a sapling sourced from Yerwada jail!). Hyderabad Trails, on the occasion of Women's Day, hosted a quick walk around the Golden Threshold. We walked in the rooms where Gandhiji and Naidu garu, once walked and looked around the various rooms. Niharika and Assistant Professor Dr. Janardhan Rao filled us on the various details; however, I wish the photographs in the rooms were clear and names of the people in the photographs were mentioned. What surprised me was the turn out! The enthusiastic crowd on a Sunday morning, sharply dressed, to listen to a piece of Sarojini Naidu's story and to listen to poetry (read by a young boy). And, more poetry was read in the Indira Devi Hall, which was opposite...