It was an interesting conversation that got me started to think. So it was several decades ago (yes, I have already spent several decades on this planet, and like the wise teacher said, have consumed its resources to become from the 3 kilos I was born with to – well- let me not say it- […]
… ask the parents-to-be or newly minted thus, on how important that decision is. Having scoured the internet for that-which-was-never-heard-of or meant in any name so far in existence, they spend hours creating long lists followed by shortlists, with polls running for THE decision that would change the life of that which was born unbeknownst […]
It was a much looked forward to vacation. You see we had barely escaped the clutches of thoughts of a staycation. I mean I just couldn’t get it how folks were so desperate to leave home that they were willing to just go somewhere (in many cases, their own city) and stay some nights in […]
So here was I staring at myself on the Zoom screen. Much against my desire, it seems to be inevitable to scrutinize oneself (not to mention one’s background) in order to determine the appropriateness of what is being seen by the other. I am told it is a sign of vanity to keep viewing yourself […]
The little one was keen on wishing her friend on the latter’s birthday. She had in fact missed calling her back when the said pal had called on the little one’s birthday just 10 days prior. Yes, they are just that many days apart in terms of their time of arrival in the world. Maybe […]
It was 9 pm at night and we had just ventured out on our customary walk. Having tuned into an early dinner followed by a stroll in the pleasant climes of wintry Mumbai, my husband was in for a shock as I made a sprint unannounced. One moment I was by his side and the […]
…. What colour you want? My daughter asked me if I remembered a particular book she had once procured via a Book festival for children. It was special because it was the first time she had experienced a reading of any book with the author. Well, the truth was it was also my first (or […]
…no one knows it.. No one wants to know it.. And anyways what do we mean by the process of that which is the end of all processes…physical or otherwise. I wanted to bring in the metaphysical but decided against it. After all am no expert on the subject. But neither am I am expert […]
As I stood on the weighing scale this morning, partly with trepidation, partly with nervous anticipation (after all I had been putting the effort to unsettle what seemed to have settled over years together), it struck me that the luxury of a weighing scale which gave results to a decimal place were not always so. […]
It all started with my little one saying how she felt like she had arrived at her grandparents’ home every time she went to one of the rooms in our home. At a loss to describe beyond this, she tried with her own limited vocabulary to share the feeling that stayed in her memory of […]