Category: Pot-pourri

I have been busy moving city and home and handling all the stress that comes with it – for those of you who don’t know (and why don’t you?!), I have moved to Bangalore. Hope to get back to blogging here soon. I am at the hotel, twiddling my thumbs, waiting for the luggage to… Continue reading Happy Ganesh Chaturti!

How do we know as children that our parents will never let us down…? never let go of our hand as we cross the street, as we swing between them in giant steps across the long courtyard on a hot day, as we hang upside down in the curve of their arms, as we walk… Continue reading Parent child

This is the story of a king… who lived – actually who knows whether he really lived or not – let us assume that he did, for the sake of this story – a really long long time ago. Around the time the Pandavas and Kauravas did, and Krishna who is now God was then… Continue reading The story of a king

Shoefi writes on the trauma of moving homes and asks – what would you save in a fire? Physical possessions, maybe… but what about all those special little things that have no meaning outside your memory and heart… somewhat like how you can return the samaan – the luggage – but what about the geeli… Continue reading What fire couldn’t destroy

Mine is fursat ke raat din.Describes the mood of the moment perfectly. Baithe rahen, tasavvurey, jaana kiye huey… What’s yours?

I was in an auto-rickshaw in Vashi last evening going towards the main bus-stand. I asked the auto driver, I need to go near the gurudwara, do you know where it is? Driver man thinks for a moment and says, I don’t know the gurudwara, but there is a Jain temple just down the main… Continue reading It’s all the same

I have never believed that it is possible to be moved by rhythm – I am a melody person myself – melody that is soft and lingers inside your head long after you have heard it… wispy feathery tunes, pale ghosts that follow you through the day and night, slipping away just as you reach… Continue reading Moved by rhythm

Here I am, back on my blog after a long while. And this time, I am blogging from the train, on my way to Chennai from Kakinada. Plug points in every cubicle. And next to it, bold letters saying, for laptops and mobile phones. (And this pic from the mobile phone, transferred directly on to… Continue reading Wired!

This is another photograph that I took while on the cruise… I had posted this on flickr without any explanation (no notes or details that I normally add to each photograph) and added no tags myself. I then invited viewers to play tag. This is an interesting technique we often use in qualitative research –… Continue reading Let’s play tag!