My Amma is the best cook I know. She can chop vegetables at lightning speed and flip chapatis using her bare hands. She’s memorized dozens of recipes and can make whatever I ask for on a whim. You can ...

It's been a week since Amma, the Divine Mother and Hugging Guru, hugged me. It's taken me this long to process it, be still, and allow the words to pour forth. Right after it happened, the experience ...

On April 24, my Amma turned another year older. This year was her third birthday during the pandemic, and thanks to vaccines and other precautionary measures, she was finally able to celebrate with ...

We'd asked you, dear readers, to tell us why your mother is special. Dhiraj Shetty from Hyderabad writes about his mother Ratna Shetty. IMAGE: Dhiraj Shetty with his family and mother Ratna Shetty, ...

She has been known to hug for 17 hours straight. But did I already know a good embrace? I first heard of Amma a couple of weeks ago when my friend Trav, a real estate agent in Byron Bay, suggested I ...

Today, I should tell Amma what she means to me because tomorrow I'll be married and gone, says Divya Nair in her last column before her wedding. Illustration by Uttam Ghosh. It's the day prior to my ...