There has never been a time when I haven’t had fun with my women friends. I’ve been through several ups and down and in-betweens but a consistent pleasure is the quick catch up, which is anything but quick. Coffee meetings have spilled over to happy hours, lunch to shopping excursions Continue Reading

I toy with this one scenario in my mind; that each of us is given a few hours to spend at a coffee shop with the one person we lost to either death or circumstance. I know it’s not always probable but sometimes I’m cruising down the road in my Continue Reading

I have a guilty pleasure. I love watching a predictable movie or television show where characters dress like runway models while grocery shopping, children expertly assess adult situations and mouth loaded dialogues while playing with crayons, and the friend who has nothing better to do than live vicariously through the Continue Reading

A stye in the left eye signifies good luck, breaking a mirror is bad luck and an itchy palm brings money are superstitions that worm their way into our thoughts before we know it. The world is a baffling place and sometimes we cling to preternatural beliefs in order to Continue Reading

The most oft repeated refrain, in both my maternal and paternal families is that we bequeath debt. Dark and wry humour is used to cloak the despair at family gatherings. Elderly aunts and uncles used to snigger that inheritance in our community meant asthma and debt. The humour is lost Continue Reading

One of the reasons I like sci-fi films is because future humans have decided that they all wear one costume. It is usually a no-frills jumpsuit and I don’t see any designer logos on the chest, cuffs or collar. Women have done away with handbags, heels and chunky jewellery. At Continue Reading

I’ve spent a considerable amount of time travelling to first world countries. A faux duel goes on in my mind, them versus us. I like leaving the chaos and noise of Mumbai and admiring the more disciplined environment of the West. I laud people who stand patiently in serpentine queues Continue Reading

The desire for an alternate way of life catches us unawares, sometimes while stuck in traffic, on an evening stroll or before we drift off to sleep. I might have been a different person. I could have lived elsewhere. It lingers in our sub-conscious, this vague personality that we never Continue Reading

Children grow up listening to nursery rhymes, but in the India of my childhood, we mostly grew up to the sound of the radio, static and all. A portable radio rested everywhere one looked, on people’s shoulders, balcony railings and car hoods, blaring either cricket commentary or Hindi film songs, Continue Reading

I feel insignificant when I rest beneath a great banyan tree. Or when I stand under a starlit sky in a forest reserve. On many occasions, while on vacation, I have been amused by the disdain of a monkey or a mountain goat appraising me. Even the ants under my Continue Reading