Old songs make me nostalgic. They make everybody nostalgic, do they not? With me, it is different. Time stops. No, there are no memories or flashes from the past. There is just Now, still, quiet, afraid to move because it knows ...Read More
He keeps himself busy. So he doesn't have the time to keep checking the calendar. He has refused himself the pleasure of counting the hours since she left but he cannot seem to ignore days. He knows it's a Monday ...Read More
There are three women that I have met in this little lifetime, who have made me gasp and stare at them in awe.
Mom, who I call Maa.
Grandmom, who I call Dida.
And Mum-in-law, who I call Amma.
All women worth their weight ...Read More
This is positively sinful, decadent and you can't stop eating it. It calls out to you in the middle of the night, the middle of a lazy Sunday evening, in the middle of a bath even...you find yourself scurrying out ...Read More
Many, many years ago, when there was no such thing as ready-made ginger-garlic paste, saas-bahu flicks on TV, when Mumbai had one standard climate for all seasons (hot, sucky, humid), when I could not tell Malayalam from Tamil from Kannada ...Read More
Three years ago, you did not know you would be here reading these words. Three years ago, you did not know the name that would make things go round in your life. Three years ago, all the wrong things mattered. ...Read More
I was packing a lunch box. A day back. And the vegetable that I had cooked and was stuffing into the air-tight tiffin box was spinach.
Now we all know how volatile the nutrients in a leafy vegetable are. So I ...Read More
He rode quietly, feeling the wind on his face, feeling her snuggling up to him, his pillion rider wife. The song he had caught off the radio at a snacks store still auto-played in his head.
11 children, all in their ...Read More
For a very long time, I did not know that paneer is cottage cheese. Until of course, in fifth standard, I saw a recipe by Tarla Dalal on TV and she clarified that cottage cheese is paneer. Tarla Dalal followed ...Read More
She always wondered how she would find him in the next lifetime. Because, obviously, she would not want to be with anybody else. He wondered why she was always in a hurry. He would set out to meet her and always ...Read More
Images fly by. Trees and dogs, cows in alleyways, people. We catch familiar expressions...disgust at highly priced onions , the sly smile of a pickpocket, the anger in a girl's eyes at the man who just leered at her, anxiety ...Read More
The winds carry you. To places far and not known yet. Where you will breathe the air I have not yet touched. Or have I?
Where you will see sights I have not yet seen. Sounds I have not heard yet, ...Read More
