Conversations with the little person
(Found this lying in the Drafts, from Dec 2014 apparently. Dammit, I miss this baby-talk and the baby! He’s growing up so fast and talking nine to the dozen these days.) Lunch time. So…...
8 Years Ago
On books and saviors
Breathe. I had to remember to breathe. And stop wringing my hands, stop hovering over the friend’s conversation on WhatsApp, stop fidgeting and for the love of God, stop hyperventilating. But…...
8 Years Ago
Ek chutki sindoor
My son was being extremely fidgety. We were riding back home, well past his dinner time, and I was at my wit’s end trying to calm him down and get home soon. And we got ourselves a red light …...
9 Years Ago
Book Review: Hangwoman
Hangwoman by K.R. Meera My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m still in Kolkata I think. It’s crazy how this book stays with you long after you’ve finished it and even moved on to the next b…...
9 Years Ago
“One does not love breathing”
My spectacles broke. Yeah, one min I was drinking a teeth-chattering-throat-freezing strawberry smoothie and the next thing I know the right temple has fallen on the table, leaving my glasses woefu…...
9 Years Ago
Book review: Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter
With #ChennaiRains on my mind, it has been a distracted kind of reading today. I read two lines and I space out wondering if so and so cousin and her family are OK or not. I force myself to come ba…...
10 Years Ago
