Author's Note: This is an exclusive post for the people who understand Hindi. For the rest, it falls flat. My husband's native tongue isn't Hindi. Neither is mine but having lived amongst Hindi-speaking people all my life, I can speak it without my native tongue's influence intruding. But living in India one cannot but be bombarded... Continue Reading →
The Perils of Healthy Living
The biggest irk about "healthy living" is when it's forced down your throat by someone who thinks they (meaning the rest of the family) ought to change their eating habits. Recently Red went on a road trip with a childhood friend who has embraced healthier options in his life vis-a-vis his eating habits. This individual... Continue Reading →
Electrified Alphabets
Travails of a mom to a rapidly growing kindergarten kid. Life will never be the same again.
Embracing the D-Word
One of our first pets is dead. We bought MLM his first goldfish pair exactly two weeks ago. He wasn't excessively fond of them; am glad about that since I had visions of his using the net or even his hands to want to talk to them or caress them. In fact even when he... Continue Reading →
The Mumbling Husband
Originally published in- http://fortunatecave.livejournal.com/110328.html Red mumbles. And quite likely, I'm going deaf in one ear. This is how it happened: I was saying something about Mumaith Khan Red said something I heard as thus- She looks like Cromwell. Me: Cromwell? Oliver Cromwell? Eeks!! Red: Cromwell?!! I said kaamwaali!! *walks away shaking his head at me... Continue Reading →
Escape Into Fantasy- A Parenting Placebo
Every now and then I like to pretend. That things in my home are nearly picture perfect. When I sit down on the couch, or a chair I'm not likely to sit on a clothes pin that will jab me in the gluteus maximus. That I will have my coffee in peace, at length and... Continue Reading →
NOW We’re All Moved In
I found a house lizard a few minutes ago. Seven months and all my hopes of having a lizard-free house go down the drain. Aren't lizards even prone to vertigo? Am on the seventh floor for cryin' out loud! But on the bright side we got to see a hot air balloon being blown up... Continue Reading →
I Draw A Cartoon
One day, a few weeks ago, I sat and watched my bored son grimace, whine, beg, roll over, stomp, tear and rush his way to getting some fun during his summer holidays. While I watched him I drew the picture. While it's just a whacky picture by the standards of those who draw, by my... Continue Reading →
A Lazy Housewife’s Guide to Meals#1
I am QUITE lazy. I love non-elaborate things and don't like to make a song and dance about anything. I like my food to be flavorful and fast to cook. Am sharing a recipe for a chicken dish which can be used in wraps, with bread, rice or just hogged on cold. It's not the... Continue Reading →
The Photobug Trumps All
I want it on record that creepy crawlies aren't my thing. I am *not* filled with the milk of human kindness and charity towards all manner of creature even if they if have a role to play in the whole scope of things. Lizards bug me the MOST. I see one and I freeze and... Continue Reading →
Random. Structured. Haphazard. All Me. 