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Go-getter Grandma and the Kite Flyers   By Hemanth Kumar Janaki Patti looked out of the kitchen window, for a look at the temple and the huge tree near it. But today a paper kite stuck on the branches of the tree distracted her. 

  Ripples from the Pandemic This Sunday afternoon in Mumbai was different, as the crowds came out as if to celebrate the departure of COVID-19 pandemic from their lives. My wife and kids had already gone to Nashik on Friday itself and therefore I was more than happy to invite my dear friend inspector Patil for company over beer and the kind of snacks my wife would frown upon.

  Via Media? By Hemanth Kumar “Why have you shifted your place to the roadside? I had a tough time finding you,” said Krishan Lal. If he sounded peevish, he thought it was justified. He was a long-time customer of barber Gopal and as a journalist he sometimes found the nonstop chattering of Gopal to be useful for his work too. For more than a year now he had cut his own hair clumsily as all trades and businesses shut shop because of COVID-19 scare.