Author Archives: Kiran Manral

Today I am missing my father. That seems to be a strange thing to say considering it has been 33 years since he passed away. Thinking back, I barely knew him, my father. To me, he was this handsome giant … Continue reading →

Part of our Pahadland trip, post our stay at Nainital, which is a blog post by itself, was an overnight stay at te Aroha, Dhanachuli, just before Mukteshwar. We drove down to Te Aroha from Nainital, a long winding road … Continue reading →

Last week, the kind people at Titan invited me to be part of a round table discussing the Millenials, a generation I look on with awe and wonder and a smug sense of waiting for them to grow up and … Continue reading →

Like all good things, the last minute pahadland trip we rushed off to, came to an end with a bang. Literally. That of me falling down the stairs and wrenching my right arm out of the socket. So while I … Continue reading →

This is what I did on the weekend. Shared the dais with some of the most popular writers of contemporary English fiction, namely Ashwin Sanghi, author of The Rozabal Line, Chanakya’s Chants and The Krishna Key, Amish Tripathi, the author … Continue reading →

“Who amongst us have not followed girls?” said Janata Dal(United) chief Sharad Yadav in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday amid peals of laughter. Mr Yadav was referring to the provisions of stalking and voyeurism in the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, … Continue reading →

Give us this day a harassment free commute Illustration: Samia Singh Last week, I curated the @WeAreMumbai twitter account. Given that it was International Women’s Day on 8 March, I asked the residents of Mumbai, or at least those who followed the … Continue reading →

The mail came some time ago, in which the gracious Elsie Gabriel of the Young Environmentalists group informed me that they had awarded me, along with many other women, the women achievers award. There was a moment of pindrop silence. … Continue reading →

Dear Friends, April 2013 is a month away, and we are gearing up for the 3rd year of CSAAM. As you are all aware, through the month of April we talk about the menace of CSA across social media, via … Continue reading →

…excuse me while I pack the guilt into a little box, and quietly shove it over the edge of the balcony. Spending a weekend doing exactly nothing seems so contradictory to the pressure of cramming it with places to visit, … Continue reading →