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Grief, Gatto Bai, The Year 2020

Grief is strange in the times of Corona. Last night, my husband’s uncle passed away. This has been the third death in my family in as many months. How do I grieve? From a distance, of course. A long distance, in my case. Most of the family, and all of …

Nature for you, Ma’am!

I was in the living room when I heard something that sounded like the vroom-vroom of a car revving. It went on for a few minutes, and then, over all the din, I heard my two cats meowing urgently at the door. When I opened the door, they came bounding …

No Place for the Young

Four years ago when I got married, I didn’t imagine it would change my life so drastically. There would be this slightly …

Diwali Musings

Recently my brother got engaged, and post the engagement, we all traveled to his fiancee’s quaint little home town in Jharkhand to …

Tim Lak Lak

When you are little, she makes you want to grow up. When you are grown up, she makes you want to be …

Wordly Woes

Rcntly, n infinitly annoyng habt has bcum ncreasngly prevalnt amng yngsters (n evn d eldr ppl spendin 2 mch time on d …

What my lost purse taught me

Actually this post comes a long time after the events that happened in it. A few months back, I lost my purse …

Self and Sacrifice

Self-sacrifice is an ambiguous word – it starts with ‘self’. She looked at me longingly, the woman in the shabby dark pink …