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It was October 2008 and I had just quit my job at Cognizant. I had also been feeling funnily queasy for a few days and every bit of discomfort I felt hinted toward pregnancy. My hunch was soon confirmed and there I was – holding a positive pregnancy report on one hand and an offer […]
Read More My Big Blue journey…Translated excerpts from দীন দান a verse written by Robindra Nath Tagore on the 5th August 1900… …“The God is not there in that temple” said the hermit. The angry king bellowed… “No God, you say? A saint… and yet you talk like an atheist! Behold the bejewelled idol brightly glows on the gem-studded throne. […]
Read More Timeless and relevant…Yet another month of lockdown and yet another post! In fact, this comes in a little later than I thought I would be able to manage… too many things happening and too little time in hand! After my last post on walls, which was unexpectedly well accepted by the handful of readers that I have, […]
Read More Writings on the wall…No, this is not one more post on Sushant Singh Rajput or how brilliant he was and how he was victimized by Bollywood biggies or a hate post on known names. Neither is it a passionate post on how it could be a murder that is being branded as suicide and how it is all […]
Read More Panchi chala uss desh ko…Alert: This is a very, very, very late post, considering the Ramzaan month ended at the beginning of June! But Ramzaan or no Ramzaan, I am a foodie and all it took to take me back in time, were a few pictures I had saved on my laptop and in a flash, I could taste […]
Read More Iftaar in and around Zakaria Street Part IMy son has a crush! Like a serious-serious one! So, he is 9 and a half and this lady in question is 10 and quite a charming girl. And this entire romantic episode (one-sided, from what I gather) blossomed over the last couple of years through on and off meetings. Well, she is a family […]
Read More Diary of an exasperated mother – Part 4You know, I am weird, at times extremely so, when I stare at people in busses or in public places because the face or the personality pulls me strongly towards it…I want to know what this person does when he or she is not playing the “role” of a “perfect whatever” that we are all […]
Read More RamblingsIt was a simple task – one hour a day, a simple exercise of revising simple alphabets and numbers and connecting pictures with their first alphabets. No rocket science and no tests. But my darling boy just cannot remember that a that “House” starts with an “H”, a picture of a net with a small […]
Read More Diary of an exasperated mother – Part 1
The world around me 