The Dogs

I had to bid goodbye to a dog yesterday…it was a bitter sweet moment, when the loss of a darling dog collided with the relief of watching her agony come to an end.  Mili entered our home in December 2...

This year, July started in rain washed Kolkata. Inside a charming, spacious and cool penthouse on the 16th floor, while rain lashed the city and humid heat made pedestrians melt, I was catching up wit...

Cold winter evening...8 pm...The dogs (four), had licked their dinner bowls clean, I had rinsed the dishes in the sink and switched off the kitchen lights. It was time to take the dogs down for their...

Since endangered species cannot be domesticated in flats, it was decided that this darling pet be named Cheetah. All those hilarious imaginary conversations are finally coming out into my world.. “...

It's a truth universally acknowledged, that beloved dogs leave their adoring humans and trot across the rainbow bridge to become memories. The humans deal with their loss by talking and sharing, by vo...

Something strange has happened in this apartment full of sunshine, warmth and good intentions. Every activity, every floor tile, every shoe...everything has been affected, and I am yet to get my brai...

Over the past 6 years, the sanctity of the regular evening walk is rarely broken. The dogs show off their uncanny sense of timing ( changing with the seasons), I stop everything else to put on my walk...

Go ahead and label me "the indulgent, besotted parent" of this little pup --you will not be far from the truth! Mili has made her place at home, found her niche in our hearts and horrified Pepper t...

Three evenings ago, there was a cold brown wind whipping up the dust into freezing needles and pins. The evening sunshine looked weak and wintery and it was the right time to don a thick sweater and a...

It began like any other day of her little 150 day old life....the first grey light of dawn peeped in to find her snuggled against my neck, gentle nibbling of my ear lobe "hey, its morning and we cant ...