2024-04-21 17:27
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2024-04-20 05:29
Have you known the kind of people who, when the phone rings, will tell you, ‘The phone is ringing!’? An …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-19 06:20
Queue is a word that could have done without its followers and made it in life all on its own. …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-18 04:37
Trumps as in outshines. Patience trumps impatience. Or does it? Not always, is my guess. Impatience does get results some …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-17 16:27
Omg! Omg! Omg! Excuse me, believers for going Omg! Omg! Omg! when I am not one of you. Yeah, recently …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-16 02:54
‘Never ever!’ I said once about something, and it came back to bite me where it hurts. I had to …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-15 06:18
Unfortunately not everyone can sing. Sadly enough not everyone who attempts singing can match a pitch. Lastly, and saddest of …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-14 16:59
Looks matter to almost all of us, more to some, not so much to others. There are of course who …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-13 05:55
The lines are from an Abba song, and no, I am not going to talk about the song. But this …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-12 06:46
I do not like Jerry. That mouse is always annoying Tom and getting him into trouble. True, Tom annoys Jerry …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-11 05:57
There’s a Malayalam song from the 70s that goes, ‘Indulekha thăn pon kalithoniyil innale njaan ninne kondu poyii’. The translation: …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-10 04:48
Holier than thou. Sanctimonious. Self righteous. We have all met people who fit the description. Perhaps we have been one …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-09 06:06
In our, what everyone and their great grand uncle now call ‘the good old days’, it was common for parents …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-08 05:23
Is there anyone who is not fond of fruits? I am afraid there are, but let me tell you, I …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-05 07:04
Elephants cannot fly. They have no wings and are too heavy to lift themselves off on their own. I cannot …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-04 05:45
If you want something to be done just the way you want it, move your butt and do it yourself. …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-03 02:23
Everyone knows who eats lots of carrots. Bunny rabbits. At least that’s what popular children’s literature and cartoons would have …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-02 01:43
I think I may have mentioned it somewhere in passing in one of the posts I have written. Or maybe …Continue reading → Read More
2024-04-01 04:19
Three months gone already. We are now in the second quarter of the year. Time does have wings perhaps, or …Continue reading → Read More
2024-03-18 04:42
So there was this guide who took us around the fort. As we finished the tour and were walking back, …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-29 07:11
On my walk to day morning, two things happened. A crow scared the bejeezus out of me and I saw …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-28 06:31
Today my house-help, I call her my Woman Friday, came to work looking wan and listless, quite unlike her usually …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-27 17:35
Today, a friend of mine was relating how she had dislocated her right wrist a couple of years back. She …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-26 05:34
I know I meant to write something today, but for the life of me I cannot recall what it is. …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-25 17:05
Last week, a friend shared a video. While discussing it amongst us in our group, I mentioned what some of …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-24 05:05
Last week, a friend shared a video. While discussing it amongst us in our group, I mentioned what some of …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-23 04:55
Who are your favorite people to be around? Hmm… That’s some question. Let me attempt an answer. But if you …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-22 17:40
If you write my name on Google search bar, in all probability you will see a helpful suggestion from it …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-20 16:39
I spent a lot of time today on finding a topic for rambling. Not because I didn’t have one, but …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-19 17:08
Have you heard men crib about how women are after them to put back everything in their place, or leave …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-18 16:48
Now that its days since the hype and hoopla surrounding Valentine’s Day has died down, I’ll share something I have …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-17 17:27
If there was a biography about you, what would the title be? Ha! I have no idea why I am …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-16 17:17
The heat this year is unbelievable. Quite unlike mellow Kerala. Or should that be mellow Trivandrum? You see there are …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-15 17:22
What happens when you are caught in the midst of two of your friends who have fallen out? I know …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-14 04:45
Write about your dream home. Hmm… This is a difficult one to answer, …or is it? Let me try. My …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-13 17:24
Its been some days since I shared any of my paintings here. Today I attended the second of four weekly …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-12 17:08
I had to take a day off from rambling yesterday because I was dead tired by the time I returned …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-10 16:42
Today morning as I was being dropped off at the venue of the literature festival, the policeman on duty waved …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-09 16:39
Today was a repeat of yesterday. (Do read yesterday’s post if you haven’t already!) I was in a tuk-tuk on …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-08 15:42
I was off in an autorickshaw (tuk-tuk to some) today morning in the morning rush when the mobile started ringing. …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-07 16:58
The silver lining as I saw it when I moved to our new location had been the empty plot opposite …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-06 16:38
Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done. Usually I give the big ignore to the blog prompts from …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-05 16:43
Strictly speaking this is not a ramble, not by any stretch of imagination. It is something I wrote last week …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-04 16:41
Today has been a day of rest. Yesterday the day started quite early with a train journey of three and …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-03 03:30
By the time this post shows up on my blog tomorrow I’ll be on a train with my girl pals …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-02 03:30
I read somewhere that people in jobs where they interact with people on a daily basis need more sleep than …Continue reading → Read More
2024-02-01 04:51
It’s February. So let the rambling’s begin. Or so says Shail. What shall I ramble about today? Is it my …Continue reading → Read More
2024-01-23 16:07
Don’t worry. I am not going to advise you, only writing about advice, the unwanted kind and the people who …Continue reading → Read More
2024-01-19 05:56
As someone said, and with whom I wholeheartedly agree, time spent with trees is time never wasted. How can it …Continue reading → Read More
2024-01-18 01:53
In my neck of the woods, December, especially the latter half of the month, is the time when we have …Continue reading → Read More
2024-01-10 16:45
Just like I wished and hoped, things took a turn for the better as the new year arrived in all …Continue reading → Read More
2024-01-09 04:09
It is already the ninth day of the new year. Too late to write the first post of the year. …Continue reading → Read More
2023-12-27 05:39
That’s what I want to tell this unwelcome guest who has settled down as if for a long haul. Yes, …Continue reading → Read More
2023-12-07 17:32
Mr C is an old friend. Wait a minute. I am not sure ‘friend’ is the right word to use …Continue reading → Read More
2023-12-01 17:21
And just like that we are at the end of the year, rather the first day of the last month …Continue reading → Read More
2023-11-13 17:19
Today I put some leftover fish curry on the stove to reheat and promptly forgot about it. This hasn’t happened …Continue reading → Read More
2023-11-03 12:54
Sailing on All alone Where to I know not…. I captured this beautiful scene on my trip to Lake Tahoe …Continue reading → Read More
2023-11-02 07:34
I have a new friend. She lives in the floor below mine. I have known for quite a while that …Continue reading → Read More
2023-11-01 06:39
Crows are interfering busybodies. They are also self-appointed caretakers of the bird fraternity. Or so it seems to me from …Continue reading → Read More
2023-10-26 04:54
When it comes to walks, the difference between the place where the First Born resides and my hometown is, to …Continue reading → Read More
2023-10-18 07:03
One day for every time zone crossed. That seemed to be the general consensus of the days needed to recover …Continue reading → Read More
2023-09-21 03:13
This was my contribution from miles away for one of the Saturday meets of the Blank Space Writing Community back …Continue reading → Read More
2023-09-18 05:23
It’s been a long time, at least it seems so. Getting back on here feels a bit surreal, compounded by …Continue reading → Read More
2023-08-22 07:16
The fourth session of the BlankSpace Writers Club last Saturday had randomly assigned partners trying to write a story in …Continue reading → Read More
2023-08-12 15:50
[Flash fiction is an umbrella term used to describe any fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character …Continue reading → Read More
2023-08-10 16:45
The pen slipped from my fingers mid-sentence and though I tried to grab it, it rolled off the table. There …Continue reading → Read More
2023-08-09 17:38
[Flash fiction is an umbrella term used to describe any fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character …Continue reading → Read More
2023-08-08 17:19
[Flash fiction is an umbrella term used to describe any fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character …Continue reading → Read More
2023-08-07 17:41
[Flash fiction is an umbrella term used to describe any fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character …Continue reading → Read More
2023-08-04 16:00
[Flash fiction is an umbrella term used to describe any fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character …Continue reading → Read More
2023-08-03 13:03
[Flash fiction is an umbrella term used to describe any fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character …Continue reading → Read More
2023-08-02 15:13
[Flash fiction is an umbrella term used to describe any fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character …Continue reading → Read More
2023-08-01 16:09
[Flash fiction is an umbrella term used to describe any fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character …Continue reading → Read More
2023-07-31 13:18
I am all pumped up today. WordPress informed me in the early hours of the morning – because that’s when …Continue reading → Read More
2023-07-23 17:35
The other day a friend asked me if I wanted to go with her to a book fair. I agreed …Continue reading → Read More
2023-07-07 05:47
This year the rains have been late. Now that they are here, it is like they are compensating for their …Continue reading → Read More
2023-06-25 18:08
As you grow up, you become aware of yourself as a person. By the way, I am done with “growing …Continue reading → Read More
2023-06-22 17:08
[Flash fiction is an umbrella term used to describe any fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character …Continue reading → Read More
2023-06-05 17:31
What fears have you overcome and how? Every time I open the blogging site, there’s some weird question staring me …Continue reading → Read More
2023-06-03 15:09
Yesterday I ran into three of my old friends that I hadn’t met in a long, long time. I was …Continue reading → Read More
2023-06-02 19:10
There’s a Malayalam saying that goes, ‘Venamengil chakka verilum kaaykkum’. Literal translation, jackfruits can grow on roots too, if you …Continue reading → Read More
2023-05-31 17:47
Someone’s coming! Someone’s coming!!! Junior here has a voice or what? Boots! OMG, boots! We are going to be crushed …Continue reading → Read More
2023-05-23 14:29
[Flash fiction is an umbrella term used to describe any fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character …Continue reading → Read More
2023-05-07 14:01
The other day I was with a group of women, all in their ‘prime’ by which I mean they had …Continue reading → Read More
2023-04-27 17:20
Today my friend Ken reminded me that my last post had been on the 2nd of April. ‘What?!!! No way!’ …Continue reading → Read More
2023-04-02 05:39
Once upon a time…. Umm… not really, since this happened in recent times I cannot begin this ant story with …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-17 03:55
There’s a video doing the rounds, enthusiastically shared by even the wimmenz showing a small boy confusedly watching his (probably) …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-16 18:13
I get this strange feeling today that something momentous is about to happen. It is a normal enough day, breakfast …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-15 16:26
I have no idea what to write today. Earlier today I was brimming with ideas. Well, maybe not ideas as …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-14 16:59
The best news of today is that I was able to find my lost post. For some reason it got …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-13 17:00
Love of White It is a well known fact in our family of four, and also those with whom we …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-12 17:32
Last month while I was getting my hair cut, the stylist pushed my hair off my brow and exclaimed: “What’s …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-11 17:31
You know what people. I am close to tears now. I wrote a really long post and the WordPress Monster …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-10 18:29
Don’t get me wrong. I love fish and not just the ones in the aquarium. I love fish on my …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-09 16:48
The fun we have when we go through old stuff! Today for some reason I was going through old emails. …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-08 17:49
It’s been some days since I have been for a walk. Today morning though I ventured on one and I …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-07 13:55
My sensitive ears were put to the stress test on my return train journey after attending the college reunion. Luckily …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-06 18:16
Before the virus got me and made me its own for a short period, I had the opportunity to visit …Continue reading → Read More
2023-03-05 18:00
Something funny happened yesterday: I addressed Google as Alexa, and asked it to play the movie ‘The Swimmers’ for me. …Continue reading → Read More
2023-02-23 17:00
There was a cat on the boundary wall when I went for my walk last night. Well, actually there are …Continue reading → Read More
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