The madira is already in place….

We’ll be moving to our new home over the weekend and even before we bought the furniture, I decided I wanted a liquor cabinet! Since I don’t drink, everyone in the family was highly amused! My point was ‘so what, if I don’t drink, my friends who’ll come over do.’ I don’t see any issues [...]

My father, the man I hardly knew…

I always tell my students to be careful when they post things on social networking sites, because you never know when it could come back to haunt them. Of course, there are times when it does throw up things that are interesting too. Like last night. I happened to be trawling the worldwide web looking [...]

A lesson my mother taught me…

My mother passed away six years ago on the night of December 9 in Lucknow.Why did I suddenly think of her? My student Ruchika Shah’s note on Facebook about life and the way we see it through our coloured lenses triggered it off. I told Ruchika I’d comment on her note in detail, but memories [...]

Verse by a 12-year-old

Here’s something that I’ve never been able to…My son Ashutosh, who’ll be 12 this May, penned some verse and I just thought it was worth putting up here.The Junk Box I saw the box in the cornerIt was just filled with junkI had to just throw it away,In the corner garbage dump Just then I [...]