Friday started off as a cold, grey, wet Fall day with snow flurries in the air turning to icy slush underfoot. BLAH! A great incentive to pull the covers right back over the head and snuggle deeper under the comforter. “Back Home”, one could have shouted out for domestic help to bring in a steamy …
“Key Man”
Just when everyone has gone into isolation I am emerging from self-imposed hibernation to write this piece. A week or so before the closure of schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there was high drama in our daughter’s household. Their soon-to-be-six (going-on-sixteen) daughter got back from school one afternoon and excitedly told her parents and …
Beguiling eyes
“Eyes” have remained the subject for my past two blogs and I have shared a few of my favorite Bollywood songs and other poetry on this theme. I now conclude with these two compositions. The first song is from the hit 1970 movie Safar (The Journey). It was picturized on the (first) “Superstar" of Bollywood, …
The Nouveau rich
Just like the mother there is usually another omnipresent being in an Indian home. However, unlike a mother her presence becomes apparent only because her absence is the subject of periodic agitated deliberation. “Ungrateful. Irresponsible. No consideration for others. Habitual liar. She always does this especially when she knows there will be guests in the …
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