Home, Work, Office, Day-care, Fort, Refuge, Restaurant, Park, Prison, Camp, the great Outdoors After being in Germany for a while, Western European parenthood seemed quite well thought out. The mother could be with her child up to a year and the father was allowed to take 3 months off as per his liking, within the[…]
The fall out There is no good way to say this. So I shall just say it and hope that you can let me explain myself before you reply. The truth is that I am no longer in love with you. And it is not easy for me to say that. We have been through[…]
Directing Bollywood The clinical execution of vanity can invoke either a repulsive reaction or unabashed enchantment. I fell undoubtedly in the latter category as I couldn’t bring myself to look away. I have been exceptionally lucky to have very close friends that have a myriad of interests other than mine. One of them recently turned[…]
After the long flight home, my mind is unusually buzzing with thoughts. As soon as I step of the plane on to my homeland, my vision is overloaded with information. I observe the similarity and the irregularity of my surroundings. Throughout the small walk to the baggage claim, through immigrations and into the taxi waiting[…]
In a few weeks, I shall be whizzing back to her for a short visit and I am getting the definite jitters. Would United States of America also be the way I remember her? Would she be the way I left her? After making it habit of leaving home(s), I always treasure the trip back.[…]
It is not that I have forgotten but rather I just don’t know what to make of it. On this day, nice round ten years ago, I walked through the double doors of my home in India towards the air-sealed doors of an airplane towards the United States of America. Destiny back then was only[…]
yellow signs with exclamation marks can’t be good It has been well over a year since I have been here and my German is at best comparable to young child who isn’t really on the top of the curve himself. It is a fact that I am most times at peace with my incapability’s. But every once[…]
Escapism I had back in 2004 made, what I thought was, a very witty comment. I was returning back to India for the first time from the United States. As the plane made its final descent into Mumbai skies, I could distinctly notice a change of smell within the cabin. Almost as if the waft[…]
The beginning My earliest vivid food memory goes all the way back to my very young sunny days in Nashik. I would return from school in a three wheeled contraption that would miraculously and very unsafely transport over 10 kids to school and back. My favorite spot was of course next to the driver on[…]
Implicitly red, white and blue It goes without saying that I miss you incredibly. I loved you. At random times, I find myself thinking about you and what I left behind in your stars and my stripes. Yet this year, today would mean something else. I can no longer look back and recall the blackout[…]