diwali 2024Like most things growing up, Diwali was a simpler time. My father and other office going grown ups got a few days off from work, we kids…Oct 31, 2024Oct 31, 2024
routinesit ain’t much my workspace at office a little desk tucked in a cornerOct 27, 2024Oct 27, 2024
ganapati 2024 — viva KishoriGanapati celebrations are quite the thing for us. I had written about this in a previous post — how it started, the friends that dropped…Sep 7, 20241Sep 7, 20241
माऊली — mothers without bordersThe first coach. The first physio. The first nutritionist. The first sparring partner. The first bio-mechanist. The first analyst. Usually…Aug 10, 2024Aug 10, 2024
Mumbai — Monsoon Diary — 2024 (7)stepped out into an unusually quiet morning with the slightest of drizzles. Possibly folks were still sleeping off the celebrations of the…Jul 13, 2024Jul 13, 2024
Mumbai — Monsoon Diary — 2024 (6)It is nice to see cars slowing down, mindful of the water collected on roads, when the drivers spot folks walking along the pavements…Jul 13, 2024Jul 13, 2024
Mumbai — Monsoon Diary — 2024 (5)Walking down a tree lined, non waterlogged street; quiet morning, slight drizzle, Dolly Parton’s — I will always love you”, empty bus…Jul 13, 2024Jul 13, 2024
Mumbai — Monsoon Diary 2024–4It was Sandeep’s dad, (late) Mr. Mathur who initiated me into the super world of Chitra and Jagjit Singh. He had this lovely huge…Jun 14, 2024Jun 14, 2024
Mumbai Monsoon diary 2024 -2the days are here when my city is bathed in two colorsJun 14, 2024Jun 14, 2024
out of the trenches — elections 2024Maharashtra — you beauty. UP — unbelievable. Punjab — heartening — A small but significant breach in the form of Geniben Thakor; this can…Jun 11, 2024Jun 11, 2024
mumbai — monsoon diary 2024 -1thunder claps lightning my city experiences the annual tryst with its second season the first one this year was pretty severe lets see…Jun 11, 2024Jun 11, 2024
mumbai — monsoon diary 2024Amidst a slight drizzle, I saw her rush across the crowded street, unmindful of the swirl of vehicles, completely focused on her objective…Jun 11, 2024Jun 11, 2024
the empty swingweary feet stumbled home the earth outside hotter than ever what with remnants of tragic mistakes strewn all overMay 28, 2024May 28, 2024
the people’s election — 2024there is growing chatter from some quarters that this is now a people’s election — the slant though is designed to some how bring down the…May 26, 2024May 26, 2024
banyan treemy brother posted last night on the family group our friend passed felled by a storm that withered trunks could not bearMay 26, 2024May 26, 2024
it ain’t too long agoIt ain’t too long ago my father would tell me so that his father heard freedom unfurled on a fort Nehru’s words push back the night and…Apr 18, 2024Apr 18, 2024
bharat jodo yatra — mumbaiSo an epic journey culminates at the memorial of the person responsible for giving us, our constitution; that most sacred of documents. It…Mar 24, 2024Mar 24, 2024