2013-08-15 18:24
Dusk is insidious - it gently eases the hot stifling day into darkness . In the small university town where I am headed , it is the most beautiful time of the day . The terrace of my ho… Read More
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2013-08-15 05:53
The first man saw me when I was eighteen . We came to Calcutta to stay at my uncle's house . I was skinny so my aunt fattened me up with mutton and luchis fried to a fine puff , in Dalda ( w… Read More
2013-07-08 16:09
Devapriya Roy's second novel is a polished piece of work with superb delineation of character , entirely plausible three dimensional characters who are down to earth and are likely to… Read More
2013-06-22 07:37
Sandeepa the Bong Mom is one of my oldest blogger pals way back from around 2005 . I have no recollection of how we met but it has now ended up in a bonding that transcends space and brings… Read More
2012-01-14 05:09
Kiran Manral scores a bonus with her remarkably well written debut novel “The Reluctant Detective “ – a racy story about Kanan “Kay” , a ditzy overweight shop… Read More
2011-11-01 18:40
The flurry of activity of little hands on Sandeepa's blog took me to Black and White Wednesday , a photo event that Susan of The Well Seasoned Cook runs every Wednesday .Therefore apart… Read More
2011-09-23 20:07
It is still dark when the alarm rings . Her heart is thudding - as if she has run a mile or had had a panic attack - an ominous shadow gathering momentum ,bound to hit her sometime later in… Read More
2011-08-21 06:20
In January 1971 , listening to the radio on a Sunday morning I intercepted a frantic conversation between a woman in erstwhile East Pakistan and her husband who was out of the country . The… Read More
2011-07-12 16:34
Tagore's short story "The Postmaster" is ostensibly a simple story - that of a young man Nandalal, whose comfortable life in the lap of his family in Calcutta is disrupted by a transfer to a… Read More
2010-11-04 19:07
The people downstairs have got laser lights from Bangalore and instead of doing just the usual fairy light loops on the verandah have also looped in the strands of laser fairy lights . Once… Read More
2010-10-23 17:39
After the maddening frenzy and exhilaration of Durga Pujo comes a lassitude and silence that is unnerving . Images remain . Of the next door maid's two children decked out in what is probabl… Read More
2010-10-13 10:09
I have been playing farmville with an intensity bordering on obsession for the last one month . I have upgraded my farm , grown loads of crops - sometimes two in a day , planning the harvest… Read More
2010-08-29 06:04
In Mumbai the colours of the sky are reflected in the angry gun metal of the sea as they crash against the buttresses . The sea around Haji Ali which normally sparkles iridescent with light… Read More
2010-08-27 02:23
Cooking chicken is pretty boring . Washing the pieces if you have bought it fresh takes the mickey out of me and by the time I have graduated to cooking it I have lost all interest and bunge… Read More
2010-08-25 03:30
2010-08-05 18:41
In the beginning there was the rain. The railway bridge over the Thane Creek connecting Vashi with the rest of Mumbai was draped in mists and rain . And through that grey haze so reminiscent… Read More
2010-07-21 01:58
This is for the Tulika Blogathon 4 .When we were small there were these six page books of "chhoras"or rhymes printed by a Bengali publisher . There were 3 or 4 volumes and they had a rhyme a… Read More
2010-07-18 03:37
On the morning of the wedding , the fish seller brought the fish .Over 6 kilos on weight it was fat and full , glistening black graduating to a silver pink towards the belly .Using sindoor… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The bearded old gent normally came on winter nights . Wore a pair of dusty black pants ending at the ankles and an even dustier black coat . I first heard the strains of Fur Elis… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
At the corner of Purna Das Road and Lake View Road , a man used to set up camp every morning at around 11 am . He would set down his woven basket , crammed with bell metal thalis and l… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
My sister commented that it makes her uneasy - this neither summer nor winter phase .The sun is hot during the day but with a dry cool crisp underlay , the evenings are cool and breezy and a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
At dawn , there is a gentle Northerly breeze which blows in as I open the windows in the dining room . The sun is barely there - a pale golden wash in the dawn sky .Two houses down the… Read More
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