After a wonderful vacation, coming home and picking up the reins of daily life can be quite unsettling. The mind, which had been happily occupied with new sights, sounds, and experiences, suddenly finds itself back in familiar surroundings. And mine, for one, seems to have developed a mind of its own! It questions everyone, everything, […]
Yesterday in the newspaper, I read John McWhorter say, that it was time for the ubiquitous “Comma” to be interred! According to him there is no loss of clarity if the wee thing is murdered and buried without a befitting burial! Rage engulfed me- remembering the- ifs and buts of the use of comma that […]
These days I am going through a romantic phase in my reading list. The trials and tribulations of the aggressive, feminist, docile, downtrodden, rich, or poor heroines as the case may be, is keeping me enthralled. I know you must be thinking that I am too old for romance but here I am old and […]
For all my growing-up years, breakfast meant the same three things: bread, eggs, and milk. It was non-negotiable. An egg each morning was a ritual my father followed unfailingly, and continues to follow even now, nearing ninety. I, however, never shared his enthusiasm. Poached eggs were far too gooey. Omelettes were worse, filled with offensively […]
On a cruise anniversary trip, I found myself studying honeymooners the way some people study art, closely, indulgently, and with a growing sense that love behaves very differently once a lens is involved.
