Posted in talk, tagged cats, dogs, pets, polly on April 13, 2008 | 23 Comments »
Woof!
I yelped. Brat, my neighbour’s pug, was looking on whilst Mister and me were planning to rustle some heat between the sheets.
“Good doggie, little fella”, Mister said before turning back to me.
Eugh! Who wants to wag the dog now? Shoo!
But Brat howled the night down when I moved him out of the bedroom and shut the door on [...]
Posted in talk, tagged house, madras, rent, Tamil Brahmins, vegetarian on March 27, 2008 | 80 Comments »
“We are Brahmins, so you’ll have no problem”, Amma flashed a wide pandering smile at Mrs.J.
We had left Bangalore for Madras to pitch tent ”permanently”. We went on to rent a small pad with a terrace from Mrs.J in Mandavelli on a secluded lane called Sambandam Street. The landlady had a small notebook paper stuck on a cardboard that swung on [...]
Posted in talk, tagged fiona McKeown, Scarlett Keeling, Freud, Mother India on March 23, 2008 | 12 Comments »
A summer breeze has made the night cool. But I’m tossing, sleepless, over the pillows.
I hear the familiar flapping of wings by the window above my bed. He parts the drapes to hover over my head.
“It’s a pretty moon up there”, he points up to a silver disc shimmering in the dark sky.
“What’s with my heart? It’s stone-cold,” I say.
“Here, let me show you [...]
Posted in talk, tagged bhutto, bollywood, kamal hasan, karachi, pakistan on March 12, 2008 | 22 Comments »
We had guests for dinner on Sunday and among them was a couple from Karachi and their cherubic 2 year-old.
I am usually chilled as I’ve creased out the dinner-for-dummies schedule. This time I went into doubt.”Is it appropriate to bring out a bottle of wine? Should I replace it with lemonades and sodas? Push the South-Indian vegetarian menu, I cheat at, off the [...]
