Wearing Purple
Anger Management
The doctor was late. I sat soothing my extremely punctual fuming but stressed patient that this problem was geography agnostic. A young woman whose face and neck were selectively covered with numbing cream sat waiting with her extremely voluble well-heeled mother. As...
Through the Looking Glass
Leaving the sweltering heat outside, I entered the mall with the focused intention of withdrawing cash for an imminent trip. But as soon as I had walked past the security frisking to the central area, I was disoriented. For a moment I could not remember where I had...
My father, James Bond
“Nana, I hope you are not planning to jump from the first floor on this trip?” My son asks my octogenarian father, tongue in cheek, followed by whoops of laughter from others in the room. It is an unusual but pertinent question. A few years ago, just before the...
The Phyics of entertainment
Physics was never a favorite subject but it was passably interesting in high school. But concepts continued to become more abstract and introduction to the Theory of Relativity hastened the demise of my interest in the subject. In college, physics lectures routinely...
Not cool!
The Government budget always elicits mixed reactions, favorable and not so. The RJ on a popular station was lamenting the taxation on travel and related fields. Facetiously, he moved to mention activities that if taxed could fill the coffers of the government rather...
Let the kids fail!
It was a beautiful summer day; the park was as British as could be. Beautiful hedges, flowers of different hues, benches to sit on, lots of pet dogs walking their owners, and a stream complete with swans and ducks. As we took a leisurely stroll on the embankment, the...
It’s for your own good!
“Can I give you some feedback …” No. Absolutely not! A lifetime spent listening to advice has rendered me perfect. Already. Don’t mess with a good thing. Don’t mess. Period. After spending over five decades on this planet, in a country like India (where advice flows...
Bum·fuz·zled
Words have recently shot into popularity with the huge success of Wordle. Everyone is trying their hand at word smithing and proudly showing off their prowess, some extremely competitively too. My love affair with words started long ago. Studying for GRE turned out to...
Oh Mother!
It seems fitting to accept this on Mother's day. A couple of years ago, I came to a very surprising revelation: when I opened my mouth, my mother often came out! This discovery would have been galling to me earlier. By the time I became a teenager, I was so full of...
Of colours and joy
The four pre-teens race on the road, armed with their ‘pichkaris’ and colour. They spray the resident cars with watercolour, whoop with joy, and run along seeking new victims. The four young men who are employed in the apartment next door, converge in the park across...