‘Tis the Festive Season


Christmas is a month away and Santa’s already been dropping off gifts at my fireplace. Or rather in my Gmail inbox. Today, I found an email from the Editor of ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul‘ series, informing me that an article of mine has been selected for their new book “Chicken Soup for the Soul: … Read more

“Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”


I think ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ was the first rhyme I taught you. I started off with a basic gesture, a twinkling action with my fingers. These hands, these fingers which only knew how to type and to turn the pages of novels and to fix my hair, they have learnt to show you stars … Read more

Cuisine – Indian, Continental or “Hostel”?


Before I went on and resided at an actual hostel, I believed word for word what Enid Blyton had written about Malory Tower adventures. Yes I sincerely believed that they served scones with cream at tea time, boiled eggs in charming egg cups and treacle puddings and all such delightful stuff that makes you just … Read more

Milestone celebration


Yup, we’ve hit a milestone. The blog and me that is. We just completed our 100th post last week. *Author pauses for faint applause* A few good posts, some fair and legal amount of rubbish ramblings/thoughts/rants and some more private posts which certainly are very rubbish and cannot be published as memoirs even posthumously. ‘Nuf … Read more

A small matter of Social Responsibility


Ok, I know you must be wondering. Social what? And a fourteen character word starting with ‘R’ that is not the name of a new Ben and Jerry’s flavour. On this blog??? For regular and avid readers of my blog (all 3 of you), you must be aware this blog might feature the occasional flying … Read more

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