Monsoon month
August is all about rain. Many a rain soaked hour is spent in counting the advantages of mountain monsoons....there is no water logging, there are these clouds undergoing mountaineering courses who r...
24 Aug 2019
The Hamlet
21 Apr 2019
Curtain call
Home...being on the edge of a forest…being on the 2nd floor of the building…being a corner apartment, manages to be functional without thick curtains. Sunlight, fresh air, traffic sounds, jackal-bayin...
03 Aug 2018
Monsoon months…July
July, August and September,the months sandwiched between tourists and festivals, top the list of "good months in Ranikhet". Six years and counting...six years of getting soaked in sudden showers, of ...
23 Nov 2017
And how does one know its November?
With festivals, lights, crackers, wind and rain ( not this year), October leaves the mountains with fanfare and pomp, leaving behind quiet sunny days and bright blue skies with the Himalayas lithograp...
09 Sep 2017
Slow September
Monsoon clouds being pushed away by September sunshine. Festivals and fun preceding the frosty arrival of winter. Little Mili revelling in her new found adult attractiveness ( and giving me some old f...
06 Jun 2017
GenNext women of the hills
Medical college and late teens--great combination for perfecting the art of making and believing in wild proclamations. "No Gynae and Obs specialising for me. Imagine working with and for women, all t...
30 May 2017
This month
May, the month which brings every aspect of summer into life...from early dawn grey skies, to pine needles showering down on brown hill slopes, to busloads of tourists with selfie inclinations, and lo...
16 Mar 2017
Random Thursday
Winter still reigns supreme here. Holi has been celebrated, but the trees remain stark and bare, sleeping dogs curl up into tight jalebis, heaters and electric blankets continue to be used and blessed...
06 Mar 2017
The Holi week
The one festival which would be avoided totally while I lived in cities and cantonments. That one festival which I never missed in those twelve years abroad. Holi, with its attendant wet clothes, col...
07 Jan 2017
Gifts for your hosts in the hills
This is a purely personal reckoner, based on my conversations and observations in the past 5 years. I am writing about people who have chosen to leave the city, move permanently to quiet hill towns ( ...