I have heard women say they have entered the threshold of 40 and along with it a whole gamut of emotions spilling. I have well crossed th...
I wake up some days and spend too long thinking I have to write, quite like being entangled by this web of thought and finding it hard to...
When one of my best friends told me she had met her husband of 15-plus years through a newspaper ad, it did not come as a surprise to me....
There was a time when the cacophony of endless laughter shook my quiet neighbourhood, I would think. That is what happens when you have f...
When cricket stars Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman made a quiet appearance at Mughal Indian restaurant in Collingwood, they preferred the floor...
Imran Khan was a household name when growing up. And 1983 Prudential World Cup is etched in memory as Kapil Dev brought home the famous tro...
It is the holiday gloss I think. I don’t feel like doing any damn work and there is so much to do despite the fact that I work from home! Wh...
My sister Rita is a funny woman. She asks me on the phone, “Don’t Australian visas have anti-theft thingies?” That was, after an email my y...
George Harrison's wife Olivia said George “was on fire within”. I was reading in the paper today an extract from the book George Harris...
For long, he was a non facebooker. The types, you know, who would rather pick the phone in lieu of chats or emails. Perhaps the man likes to...
Almost a month after Bali, I still reminisce about the trip and what a wonderful time I had. Have been meaning to write about the various ri...
He was nearly four when his grandfather took him to Jallianwalla Bagh in Amritsar, along with his uncle on April 13, 1919. It was Baisakhi,...
Hot is the word for the man. If I had time I would have plotted to snare this latest heart throb of mine but as with all things academic an...
On this day – September 11 in 2001 – the sun set on crushed buildings in New York. Thousands of lives were lost as the twin towers fell and ...
A close friend wanted to go to a striptease club this weekend. I love my girlfriend but I declined as I have no fascination for watching alm...
The hall was packed with 600 wannabe writers. As the name Deepak Chopra was announced, there was a thunderous applause. As an Indian sitting...
In class four at the Maria Montessori School in Fire Brigade, Mustafa and Razia were newly enrolled. They had just come from Canada. It was ...
Kate at the gym must be feeling like a dinosaur every time she meets me. I chew her brain. “So, which exercise is good for reducing the fa...
What is it with Indians and their intrusive obsession about marriage? My sister recently paid her girlfriend a visit. The girlfriend lives i...
Every Thursday, a motley group of 15 of us sit down at the CAE (Centre for Adult Education) in the city and discuss English threadbare. The...
I am interested in people. I don’t know why. I like to talk to people and know all about their lives, well if not everything, most things. A...
In 2003, three young sisters staged their debut performance of Bharatnatyam, called the Arangetram, at the Besan Centre, Mount Scopus Memori...
I love SBS and its plethora of world movies which bring the whole gambit of human emotions and drama right before you. Some of these are fil...
