Book Fair 2010 or Where We Meet Ruskin Bond and Sidin Vadukut

I don’t think that I had been to a Book Fair in the past decade. Well then, it surely was time to make up. So this Saturday saw me piling on Mo, Jo and kids to go to the 2010 Book Fair. We started late, it being a lazy Saturday, and Aru not being well [...]

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Christmas Time

Till I was 12 years old – Christmas for me was Santa and gifts. Then in my teen years it was Rose Cookies. Now it is Plum Cakes. When I was a kid, every year for Christmas, my aunt would come for her vacation to Calcutta from her teaching job in Simla. So for the [...]

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Learning To Be Less Selfish

One of the lessons that I have learnt this year, is how to be less selfish. Rather I have not yet started behaving completely unselfishly, but yes, I have started realizing when I am acting it. Over the years, living in a new city, constantly trying to survive all alone, did at some point of [...]

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Break-Up Nights

I am sure that all of us who are or have ever been in a relationship have undergone this phenomenon with alarming regularity.   Break-up nights generally occur after a period of lull for the party who is least expecting it (especially true for me). This beast surges it head when we have been led [...]

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Where Is My India?

I am still comprehending what happened last night. How can some people just barge in and start shooting? How can my country keep getting attacked time and again? How?   So what do I do now? Do I just blog and let it be at that to express my disbelief? Do I debate with friends [...]

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The True Believer

Two months and no posts. Not a good sign so far. But my excuse is that I have been on an extended holiday, if you buy it.   Well here goes a post I have been planning on penning for some time now. I was watching my current favourite show – Six Feet Under (Yes [...]

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The Virtue of Being Thin

‘First Impressions are the Most Lasting’ – is an adage we are all spoon fed on. And we follow it diligently to make that lasting impression. Especially if one is in the dating market.   This one age-old saying has spawned off a million cottage industries and introduced a completely new way of life. Power [...]

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Gadget Savvy My Mom Isn’t – Or Is She?

As is the rule, I thought that technology and parents don’t go together. However deep their knowledge of life may reach – it does not touch the finer nuances of operating a new gadget. This holds true for my mum. Though that hasn’t dimmed her spirit from getting excited each time she sees some gizmo. [...]

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Miracles

I now firmly believe that I have procrastinated enough and should inaugurate my blog. So to take it a step forward – here is my first post.   I believe in modern day miracles. I am extremely cynical by nature but an incident last weekend did add to my perspective and has reaffirmed my steadily [...]

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