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Kids say the darndest things 3 Jan 2013 | 09:46 am
So, the nephew runs in my mother’s house at Mach speed, enroute stopping at the sofa to throw two cushions at me. “Sweetie, do you want dosas? Ammachi has made the batter for you.” “Dosaaaaa. I am SO ...
The gender revolution 30 Dec 2012 | 11:59 am
My first and only experience with Delhi was not good. I was 15, just fresh from my Board exams, on jaunt through Himachal Pradesh, Punjab (oh, birth state) and Delhi. We’d clambered on to the Rajdhani...
2012: A Travelogue 29 Dec 2012 | 06:22 pm
Russia Learning the first letters from the Cyrillic alphabet – D-O-M-E-V and S-K-A (Domodedovo, Moskva) Going to Red Square (Krasnaya) in the middle of a blustery winter night, snow piled all over St....
Foul weather friends 14 Sep 2012 | 06:35 am
Dedicated to my foul weather friends (you know who you are!)… I might be tardy about calling you, emailing you, chatting with you or texting you. I might not keep abreast with your day to day annoyan...
The goldfish 19 Jul 2012 | 12:56 am
The goldfish has no word for ennui, I imagine. Your life on the other hand…
The Music of my Life 18 Jun 2012 | 08:23 am
Every two years, we try and discuss the last two years in song. It is, as I have said it before, time. I sound manic depressive with these music choices, don’t I? September 2010: (Basel) Nowadays (Y...
Tell me your dreams 15 Jun 2012 | 10:32 am
I know you spin your gossamer dreams in your heart, Cherishing them against the vagaries of life, The mundaneness, the pains and the strife, And they who would stomp your dreams into the dirt. ...
How does this work? 28 Apr 2012 | 07:33 am
So, I was flying from Vancouver to Brussels on seat 14A. As I was contemplating the distance to which I had to toss my bag into the hold, a tall man sauntered up the aisle and said… “Sorry.” I was c...
Somebody I used to know 23 Apr 2012 | 09:24 pm
We met on the first day of school, do you remember? We sat together, reading our A’s and B’s – you, with your mischievous smile and I, with my perennially cropped hair. We became friends; it was pros...
The 45 minute Louvre tour 19 Mar 2012 | 02:19 am
So, I was in Paris this week. Aside from walking along the Champ Elysees enjoying the first warmth of spring, I had a training to attend. And the wildest party I have been since err… the last McKinsey...
