The Usual Suspects
This post is my contribution to Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Month. Kudos to the amazing people working towards this for the second year running. He grabs her by the wrist, the grip firm yet cajoli...
12 Years Ago
Talk To Me
For the past 4 months, Arvind and I have been going out for lunch once a week. I pick him up after school at 1:45 and we drive to his favourite dodgy Chinese restaurant and we ask for the “us…...
12 Years Ago
Sink or Swim
I was eight years old. My teeth spilt wantonly out of my mouth, refuting order and containment. I had legs all the way up to my armpits. “You have beautiful legs. So shapely.” says a st…...
12 Years Ago
Coupland etc.
I decided to clear my head a bit. And re-read some Douglas Coupland. Now think over this one. Really think over it. After you’re dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, w…...
12 Years Ago
Turning Four
Armaan turned four on the 1st of October. This of course means that the crazy, technicolour, LSD trip that is Armaan has been around for approximately 1460 days, which honestly does no justice to t…...
12 Years Ago
Words Alive
“Mamma, can you keep the night light on so that I can read myself to sleep?” And I realize that I have waited for this moment, through all these years of reading to him. The day when he…...
12 Years Ago
