Lists

29 Jul 202229 Jul 2022

Lists When we got married, my roommates moved out of our barsati and my wife moved in. As the wedding happened without the knowledge and consent of our families, we…

The meal

29 Jul 202230 Jul 2022

The meal My grandfather, whom I called Dadu, was a British Civil servant with the title Rai Bahadur , who spent all his service years suited booted and having his…

Orientation

27 Jul 20221 Aug 2022

Orientation When I was a teenager, I greatly admired the Marxist revolutionary movements that I read about, be it Vietnam, Cuba, Telangana or Naxalbari . Ideologically I went from Pink,…

Parenting

18 Jul 202221 Sep 2022

When she was finishing school , like all middle class Indian parents we tried to persuade her to become an engineer doctor or lawyer. After getting excellent rankings in JEE,…

Eating out

15 Jul 202223 Sep 2022

Eating out My parents were very fond of Eating out, so we got quite used to that early in life and now our children have the same habits. But over…

Rebelus.. a review

11 Jul 202211 Aug 2022

A left wing atheist dies in an accident and to his utter shock gets sent to heaven by a blundering angel. What is the outcome? Obviously all hell breaks loose…

Love and duty

15 Jun 202226 Jun 2022

Love and duty I have spoken earlier about how random canines get attached to me on the roads. This became a problem when a large stray in the famous Radhanagar…

Dividing our assets

4 Jun 2022

Dividing the assets There was a Bollywood remake of Cramer vrs Cramer called Akeley hum Akeley tum My precocious six-year-old daughter saw this with us and made a suggestion In…

Birthday

3 Jun 20227 Jun 2022

Birthday Every time my Birthday comes around, I’m expected to celebrate one more successful circumnavigation around the sun. But all that happens is that I grow older As kids we…

The prediction

25 May 202231 May 2022

The prediction A while back I wrote about how I inadvertently heard our pet being referred to as a mad dog by other dog walkers in our neighborhood and how…