The perfect selfie
The past decade has found me looking at pictures taken by different photographers, in different places and in different attire...and thinking that the person in the pictures is different from me. I...
31 Aug 2015
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29 Aug 2015
When the “New” comes striding in..
My evening walk is usually a brisk trot down this sun-dappled, leafy, quiet road. It is flanked by pine and oak trees and the Himalayan ranges pop up in the gaps between the branches. I meet g...
18 Aug 2015
A few new things…
Of course, it's a new day today and there will be some new cloud formations, some adventurous mists climbing the mountain slopes, and all the surprises which the monsoons bring. But today, its abou...
11 Aug 2015
The flow of colour…
Our little Delhi flat could have been mistaken for a weekend girls hostel. College going daughters with friends, schoolgirls from neighbouring apartments with knitting needles and goodies for the popu...
07 Aug 2015
Side effects of the spotlight…
Swati Dasgupta, a young friend of mine from the Oman days, writes her heart out in her journalism career. Success at work and a lovely family notwithstanding, Swati has been searching for avenues whic...
04 Aug 2015
Blankets…for babies with attitude.
One of the nicest things of being in the 5th decade of this journey called " Life" would be the profusion of babies in the lives of my near and dear ones. Friends and cousins proudly share grand tidin...
02 Aug 2015
July was Just J….
Just being...that is all which was done in the last month. There was travel...Travel on roads which were flanked by sudden waterfalls, green foliage and bright flowers...roads with stones and rubble ...
07 Jul 2015
Monsoon morning
It has been raining through the night. The steady rhythm of rain has been drumming a lullaby on the tin-roof of the cow-shed. I can hear the fretful restlessness of the pregnant buffalo, I can feel t...
30 Jun 2015
Sock stories
I have knitted a pair of socks. Socks crafted from a lovely present of German self-striping sock yarn. Yarn in shades of blue, prussian green, greys and some more water shades in-between. Its been...
22 Jun 2015
Unspun Icelandic wool
Once upon a time, many years ago, a dear friend took a vacation in Iceland. Those were the times when I would be seen knitting through the Delhi summer. Of course, that knitting would be in comforta...