Author Archive for Dr. Ritu Arora

“Ashu, your new walkman, its broken from the side, you just bought it yesterday” cried my uncle, who had borrowed my cousin’s walkman to listen to a song, as we drove down to Nepal. “No Dad, it was broken when we bought it”, said Ashu. My cousin, Ashu, at seventeen, had done what most people [...]

DOES ONE SIZE REALLY FIT ALL ? My shoe size is 6, and today I belong to the rather long list of women with a 6 shoe size. For a teenager, it was rather large, and I often wondered, ‘What if Cinderella had a shoe size 6?’ The result would’ve been the courtiers coming back [...]

I could see my father’s image pop out of the scroll as the lawyer was reading my father’s will, “Last will and testament of me, Prakash Arora,”…. …and after that everything went blah, blah-blah, blah-blah. The interesting part came when I heard “ To my darling daughter Ritu, I leave, a boat.” I always dreamt [...]

My brother Raj had a huge crush on this girl ever since his adolescent years. Now in his late thirties, he still blushes at the mention of her name. Today, she has 2 kids, and is happily married…to someone else. Why? He did not ask her to marry him, he never told her he loved [...]

When was the last time someone patted your back? When was the last time you gave someone a pat on the back? If you’re reading this article give yourself a PAT on the back. Come to think of it we are overjoyed when someone gives us a PAT on the back, and yet when our [...]

‘Arcot Easwaran has claimed that when the whole world is switching over to English, Mr. Vajpayee has shown disrespect to it by addressing the U.N. in Hindi. Leaders of many countries such as China, Japan, Russia, France, Germany and Spain address the international forums in their own national language. Do they all disrespect English by [...]

For those of you who are familiar with the ins and outs of tea life, the sentence is self-explanatory. Almost to the extent of abracadabra. One can almost visualize a tiny tot, who comes into this world, after endless months of patience, with expectant parents under half-baked medical conditions, and lack of communication to share [...]

“No, it can’t be done,” said people to a man named Thomas, as he kept on failing at his experiment. Had he given up, today we would be still living in the dark. He failed for a thousand times until finally he made a bulb that could glow. And what did our hero Thomas Alva [...]