I don’t know if Kendriya Vidyalayas still use the English Grammar and Composition text book by Wren & Martin. For my generation, this was THE text book for English Grammar and Composition. In the last week of December, we started our de-cluttering phase 2 and started with the […]
Dear Appa, Yesterday while cleaning one of the drawers at home, I found a postcard from you … This was a letter you wrote me in 1989. You were posted in Vizag and I was in Hyderabad completing my degree from Wesley college. Amma was planning to come […]
For a self-confessed Saree-addict any celebration obviously includes sarees .. and this year is no different. This year as I turn 50, I have made a list of 50 different things that I want to do to celebrate and one of them is to wear different weaves during […]
We, the PGPMAX batch of 2013 had our 5th year reunion on Nov 23rd and 24th. This time we were invited by the school to hold it at the ISB Hyderabad campus. It was an opportunity to relive the time that we spent there during our program. I […]
Dearest Appa, Today is Thiru Karthigai and its the 10th anniversary of your departure. We remembered you with some things that were very dear to you. Believe it or not, Amma made dosas on a cast iron tawa ! She has been making dosas on a cast iron tawa […]
During summer holidays we would visit both my paternal and maternal grandparents. At my paternal grandmother’s place, they had cows at home and the milk would be heated in a heavy bottomed pan throughout the day as coffee was made or people drank milk. At night, my grandmother […]
As we walked around Inverness today, Krishnan found this written on a building across the Ness bridge and I immediately took a picture. Even though we are teetotallers, we know that aged Whisky is something special, so this quote is so true!! And very apt for this time […]
Dearest Appa, I made some Shrikhand with jaggery yesterday as I made the OPOS Gujarati Thali for lunch. We ate some of the Shrikhand yesterday but I kept some of it in the fridge because I remembered how much you relished eating Poori-Shrikhand. Today morning we made Pooris […]
I am wondering if it is a colonial hangover or does it predate the British rule ? Folks in rural India and many of the recently migrated folk in the city will ask you what the it is when they see you wearing a watch. With the cellphones […]
The flames would have consumed your mortal body by now … that amazing smile, the animated face, the lively eyes and that golden heart will be missed forever. Dear Raji, I miss you already and I cannot imagine how Mani must be feeling. I have both your numbers […]
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