fairy tales, & fun
Stories about kids, parenting, and fun things at Oinam.
Stories
Oinam in 2022
This year was lackluster. The world is slowly coming out of the COVID lockdowns and confinements. We ventured out into public places for the first ...
Third Culture Kids
Third culture kids (TCK) or third culture individuals (TCI) are people who were raised in a culture other than their parents’ or the culture of the...
Oinam in 2021
The COVID Pandemic was supposedly getting better but hopes were shattered and the waves started. We started the new year with a gathering of a smal...
We all got COVID
Amara, Laaija, and Shanta went to Manipur for the Summer break in early April. The COVID Pandemic Second Wave was weaning down in all major cities ...
Oinam in 2020
It started as just another normal year, with a tint of worry about the new of the emergence of COVID-19. Like everyone else, we heard and read of t...
Amara skipped a School-Year
We got Amara admitted to her sister’s school. She was excited and looking forward to it. However, the Pandemic ruined everything. As it worsened, w...
Oinam in 2019
Amara started 2019 with her hair fully-grown and intact. She wants to make-up, tries the lipstick, and believes she can be like her elder sister, a...
Goa in the Monsoon
Like most of us Indians, our family decided to go to Goa during the monsoon (off-season for the usual tourists). The bad part — we decided to drive...
Imphal Peace Museum
The Imphal Peace Museum (photos) is a World War II museum at the foothills of the Red Hills (Maibam Lokpa Ching) in Manipur, India. It is a living ...
10 years and now she is a ‘Rebel’
She was the cutest and the best thing that happened to me 10 years ago. She changed everything in my life — from the way I drive to the way I treat...
The PeppaEffect - British in the House
I was not always comfortable that my first daughter speaks with a British Accent at an early age. It is much better now and is more neutral. It al...
Lipstick
‘Mom does it, she looks pretty.’ ‘Sister did it, and she looks pretty too.’ So, here I go - Lipstick.
