The Hamlet

Does Nature have a calendar on Her desk? A calendar like the one tacked on the cupboard, with lunar signs and holidays visible from a distance?! How else can She get her domain to function so perfectl...

The car door opened and 3 smiling people emerged after my excited daughter. She dived down to cuddle the surprised and wriggly dogs, leaving this smiling trio to their own methods to meet/greet me. Ca...

There has been no electricity for the past 18 hours.  No electricity through the star spangled night, no background hum of appliances to dim the Janam-Ashtami celebrations in a distant temple, and not...

Today, the last day of the first month of the second half of this year, remains true to the July code of grey skies above and damp, green/brown landscapes below. In the space between the skies and the...

This is a quick primer for figuring out if one is being drenched by pre-monsoon rogue clouds or the real thing, based on quirky experiences and local folk sayings. Clouds marshal forces around the...

Once upon a time, 78 hours ago-- I was cruising home from the market and listening to my tummy calling out for lunch. Sunny day with storm clouds gathering at the horizon, a clear crisp breeze in the ...

Two projects on needles..The big one, a vivid throw, had inaugurated this year .It continues to expand (stitch by stitch, mutter by mutter), and shows no signs of wanting to opt out of the knitting ba...

It's summertime, brown heat time, tourist and big 4WDs time, sightseeing and shopping time. Shall we drive to the town today? 3 kms down the road and you can see the two hills, covered with precarious...

Late at night, if you sneak into our home,  you will hear two different rhythms of loud snores ( Pepper and me)interspersed with some woofs and sniffles( Biskit).You will find bracing winds breezing t...

Every old hill station has a Mall Road. The shops, the gentry, the tourists, the vendors, the evening crowds during summer, monkeys and horses—that’s what Mall Roads have in common. Ranikhet is the...