The Bard and I

22 Apr 202122 Apr 2021

Bard blues My first encounter with the Bard was in a children’s book called lamb tales from Shakespeare, and I thought that he was pretty lame and not a patch…

What’s in a name

19 Apr 202122 Apr 2021

What is in a name? Call a rose by any other name, it will smell as sweet Well, the bard says so, and we applaud. But is he right? My…

Shyness

2 Mar 20212 Mar 2021

How to get rid of shyness and become the life and soul of the party We have seen Boy start life as a reclusive bookworm and a shrinking violet, in…

The film

8 Feb 20218 Feb 2021

     The  filmI finally got to see Sonali Bose’s  acclaimed film Amu, on the Sikh genocide of 84 in Delhi on the channel Mubi, meant for art house cinema . The…

The accidental love story

4 Feb 2021

Delhi was Boy’s accidental love storyBoy’s first visit to Delhi was in his parents arms, and the only memory that stood out was falling from a high chair in some…

Riots

15 Dec 202015 Dec 2020

RiotsThere was a new game being played in the boy’s school. It was called ‘riot riot’. It was like Kings, or rather Bompat, which probably was a corruption of Bombard,…

Kolkata calling

1 Dec 20201 Dec 2020

Kolkata The news created a sensation around their little neighbourhood. Boy’s family was shifting to Kolkata. It was the dream city for the kids around. Boy didn’t see what the…

Fear

5 Mar 2020

Terror The recent media report about the journalist whom some goons threatened to strip to check his religious identity sparked off a dark memory long buried in my psyche.  …

Vegetarianism

6 Jan 20206 Jan 2020

Vegetarian The concept of vegetarianism is prevalent only in certain parts of India only among certain castes among Hindus and all Jains, and that too, only from the fifth millennium…

A unique experience

23 Dec 201924 Dec 2019

A unique experience Walking down a maze of narrow lanes, some where only one person can walk I was completely disoriented. It didn’t look like we were in India. All…