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Uma Sankar Sekar
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As Red as Life

Weddings in India, come with saris, and my trousseau contained the mandatory three or four, but a red sari is the one that I associate most with my wedding day. Perhaps because it was the one that I wore in my home-city, surrounded by my friends and family. …

Weddings

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As Red as Life
As Red as Life
Weddings

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The Skin Color of Gods

It took only a couple of days to understand, as my friend and I went door to door after school, collecting old newspapers. It was a tradition at school, to collect paper from our neighbors, and give the money from the sales to charity. To add some incentive to the…

Skin Color

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The Skin Color of Gods
The Skin Color of Gods
Skin Color

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Memories of Mischief

It was a short walk down a slope, a rare outing for my father who has been house-bound for the past year. Out in the open, away from home, we were free to explore what was around us. We examined how the roof of a parking shed had been constructed…

Childhood

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Memories of Mischief
Memories of Mischief
Childhood

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Colors of September

It’s early September, and the weather feels like the peak of summer: hot, humid, and very wet. The roads are more crowded, and so are the trains. Parents dash to work after rushing their children to school, and ponderous school buses stop dutifully every few streets. Everyone is back from…

Flowers

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Colors of September
Colors of September
Flowers

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Jul 31

A Brush with Joy

My hand shivered a little, in excitement, and a little fear. It had been a long time since I held a brush in my hand. A volunteer meeting that I almost missed, a chance reading of a syllabus, all led to a water-color class that I enrolled in, on a…

Watercolor

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A Brush with Joy
A Brush with Joy
Watercolor

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Jun 30

Stop Bugging Me

The woods, they sometimes mock me. “City dweller,” they say, “get used to our rambling paths.” Born and raised in a city, and now living in sanitized suburbia, rambling paths are not my norm. The city can be harsh in its own way, but is usually predictable. Stairs, whether indoors…

Nature

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Stop Bugging Me
Stop Bugging Me
Nature

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Jun 1

From Riches to Rags…to Riches

We all have stores where we like to browse; my own favorite is a plant nursery, followed a close second, by an art material store. I enter into some sort of a delirious coma as I walk into a nursery, and hours slip by in minutes, as I stare at…

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From Riches to Rags…to Riches
From Riches to Rags…to Riches

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May 1

Spring Knocks

Spring knocks, hesitantly. Cold wintry days alternate with warm ones, sudden bursts of rain with sun. Timid steps around the garden reveal that the silver catkins of the Pussy Willow have ripped open into yellow stamens, ready to cast their pollen into the skies. From a distance, they look like…

Spring

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Spring Knocks
Spring Knocks
Spring

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Mar 31

Over Winter

At the beginning of March, when everything outside seems to be at a standstill, one plant has started blooming. The pussy willow, the first to flower this year, is new to my garden, having arrived late last fall, when we purchased it during an end-of-the season sale at the local…

Winter

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Over Winter
Over Winter
Winter

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Mar 1

The King of Trees

The streets are bustling with activity by the time my morning walks in the neighborhood park end. Traffic is whizzing by, school children are rushing, bus-stops are full of people in a hurry to get to work, and construction activity on the metro has restarted: all of which combine to…

Trees

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The King of Trees
The King of Trees
Trees

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Uma Sankar Sekar

Uma Sankar Sekar

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Landscape Architect, writer, plant lover

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