The other day about half an hour after dinner H said, ‘I am hungry. Can I have a roti?’ The only emotion I felt at that question was annoyance. It had been barely five minutes since I’d wiped down and cleared up the kitchen and the last thing I wanted to do was to pull …
I haven’t been feeling too chatty since I got back from the holidays and I thought a cup of coffee might help. Take a seat then as you read this, get your cup of coffee and I’ll get my chai. If we were having coffee together I’d warn you right away that this was …
One Sunday the Husband said he wanted to eat aloo puri for lunch. The children chimed in their yays and I was game too. Not too tough to put together, thought I, as I put the potatoes to boil and got the dough going for the puris. Half an hour later I checked on the …
April always is the most eventful month of all. This is the time that the children finish their exams, get to see their papers and we travel to Lucknow. This year we also changed houses (in the same city though). We hadn’t shifted in a decade so it was a huge step. The amount of …
I’d been lying awake for a while, waiting for the alarm to ring. When it did, I gave it a five minute snooze. And I slept off. Till I was awakened with a start by the second alarm. That five-minute nap seems so much longer because it is the deepest most peaceful of all. Another …
I am currently reading Eating Wasps by Anita Nair. Here’s a quote that caught my eye, specially as a writer. “Ghosts and writers are more alike than you think. We can be what you want us to be. We can hear your thoughts even if you don’t tell us. We can read the silences and […]