Parenting Teenagers

If you have driven through any Indian city lately, you have probably seen them — vast hoardings of beaming teenagers, their ranks printed in bold beside a coaching institute’s logo. Newspapers land on the doorstep wrapped in full-page versions of …

It is Sunday evening. The assignment has been sitting on the desk since Thursday. Your teenager, who assured you at lunch that they would “definitely start it after dinner,” is now three episodes deep into a new series and showing …

Results day arrives. The number on the screen — or the sheet, or the notification — settles into the room. There is a pause before anyone speaks. Then come the calls, the messages, the relatives who somehow already know. And …