Sunnyvale Letters (SVL) 1: Wedding and After

 Posted on June 21, 2015  |  18 minutes  |  3816 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

June 21st 2014 Happy Summer Solstice everyone! 🙂 I woke up at 5am because of jetlag and my husband, Santosh, is still sleeping. I’ve been wanting to write every day of the last month but things have been so busy. [Read More]
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Kindness in Oldenburg

 Posted on March 13, 2014  |  16 minutes  |  3349 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

When you live for long enough in different places kindness becomes one of the most things you look for. And kindness seems to be the theme of this small town where I have spent the last ~three and half years. [Read More]
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How to encourage mutual respect between men and women in India

 Posted on January 11, 2013  |  7 minutes  |  1487 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

INTRODUCTION The gang-rape and death of Jyothi Singh Pandey who was previously known in the media as Damini or Nirbhaya, was the tipping point in bringing to focus a long suffered issue of disrespect and violence towards women in India. [Read More]
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All hot air

 Posted on June 14, 2012  |  1 minutes  |  100 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

I asked my brother and my father and they both said I have never been on a hot air balloon ride to their knowledge. If this happened, it was definitely more than 12 years ago with some friends, in Australia, because it feels like an old memory. [Read More]
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Types of Love: An Analysis.

 Posted on July 23, 2011  |  8 minutes  |  1516 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

It is perhaps important to differentiate the various meaning that we refer to when we say the word love. Often ‘love’ is used in the place of a more suitable word. [Read More]
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