Even all the highs that a shopping spree gives me this festive time here cannot totally take my mind off the horror. The news about the 23...
When I started my career with a news agency, we always had our end of the year specials called ‘year-enders’ or ‘the year that was’. They w...
It is hard to imagine Kiran Bedi without her baton, cap and police uniform. On a cloudy Friday afternoon in Melbourne, India’s legendary s...
My garden is looking green, the tomato plants are almost reminding me of Jack and the beanstalk standing tall against the wall and my chill...
I have a friend who insists on sending her postcards wherever I am travelling. Shit I never seem to find time for that as I am busy eating,...
Taking a break from my weepy posts, here’s some gossip. The University of Melbourne’s Australia India Institute seems slush with fund...
(25 August 3:05 pm) I count the days. It has been a week here. I am struggling, literally. I can’t go inside the ward save for giving f...
Spending time at a hospital is definitely not one of life’s best experiences. But it is here that you learn about life. You come to the dau...
For two months on end, I have been away and completely neglected you. I did not mean to. I had to fly continents away for a grave reason....
There is a thin line separating sanity from insanity - my mental experience, of late, tells me that. My little nephew is ill and I am worri...
I have just had a hearty dinner and guess what I ate with my hands. I scooped the dal with my fingers and licked them too. It is an art per...
FROM MY WINDOW The curious case of surnames My sister is married to someone with the same surname. I call it the curious case of Laishra...
I have told you about my friend Uma Didi, my veritable storehouse of news and gossip. Her Idly Corner stands next to my gym and that’s ho...
I have been disturbed by the news coming out of my region – the northeast of India - where a teenage girl coming out of a bar at 9:30 pm ...
There is a small Murakami club brewing in my household. And it is expanding. Our friend Deepika is also part of the fan club now after we i...
I still feel like a sad bag but reading Sarah Macdonald’s Holy Cow has been an antidote to my dreary morning. Macdonald’s summary of Indi...
What It Takes To Be A Taxi Driver In Melbourne? More than 80 percent of Melbourne’s taxi drivers are Indians. A community much misund...
Yesterday while watching Masterchef, young Emma was hysterical, almost, as she was pitted against her favourite Ben (my favourite too) in...
