Growing up in the 1990s, one of the most exciting events for me as a child was getting a new neighbour. In our small apartment building, new...

If you think Rakshabandhan is a festival of love, respect, and lifelong sibling bonding, you clearly haven’t met Sarthak and Shamika. For th...

The story begins in the early 1950s, in the quiet Indian village of Uplai, a small village in the Solapur district of Maharashtra. Two broth...

I enjoy playing with the white sand on the beach. I like to hold it in my hand, feel its softness, and let it run through my fingers. There’...

This was in October 2007, a Halloween weekend and I was lying on a hospital bed. For me, it was the fourth day on a hospital bed at the Apol...

Life has a way of testing our character at the most unexpected moments. Here’s something that happened to me on the morning of my father...

It was a quiet Sunday afternoon. Sarthak, my 9-year-old son, and I had just finished watching a movie together. As we relaxed, he turned to ...

When the COVID-19 lockdown began, we were at our home in Pune. Like everyone else, we were suddenly stuck indoors, unsure of how long it wou...

Mumbai is a city of millions. A place where lives crisscross every day — in locals, on footpaths, at railway platforms — often without us re...

I visited the West Coast for the very first time in 2014. I was staying at a hotel near Cocarane Plaza in Morgan Hill — a serene little vill...

I first met Benedicto—or Ben in 2013. I had just started making business trips to Qatar, and my company, Mannai, had leased a few well-set-u...

There are people who live quietly, without ever demanding the center stage, yet leave behind a silence that feels larger than life when they...

Fourteen years. That’s how long it’s been since I first held Shamika in my arms—a tiny, fragile bundle of innocence. In those early days, ev...

2004.  The year I passed out from a reputed engineering college in Navi Mumbai with dreams stitched tightly in my chest and hope clinging to...

I was named  Neeraj  — a name chosen with love and purpose by my father. It’s not just a name; it’s a story, a legacy, and a reflection of w...

Some people enter your life not as visitors but as lifelines. One such name, forever etched into the fabric of my existence, is  Nerkar Taai...

It had been long on our minds to take some quality time with Aai and Aaba. Little did we know that the cancellation of our Ladakh trip amid ...

  It all began when my wife, Priya, decided to revolutionize our dental lives. She brought home a set of four sparkling new toothbrushes—eac...