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Guess what we bought this weekend…

My great grand father used to roam around the grass lands of Tamil Nadu with his 1000+ goats and sheep – exactly like the protagonist in Paulo Coelho`s book ‘The…

Maggi & Me

Maggi & Me

You probably cook Nestle`s Maggi noodles, eat it and forget it. No so in my case. This blog post is to explain why Maggi has been such a big thing…

When my mom boards the airplane

When my mom boards the airplane

Yesterday, I realized that I am not the only threat to airhostess that my family has to offer. My mother is better than me when it comes to air hostesses.…

Every photograph has a story to tell

Every photograph has a story to tell

I have always believed that every photograph has a story to tell – something so compelling that one doesn`t really want to share it. Perhaps that is why it took…

Drinking with the wolves

This whole week I have gone without a drink. Easy for a non-drinkatarian (a term I coined hoping to enter into the Oxford dictionary one day), but not so for…

Mother in law vs daughter in law

This post is purely imaginative and while it refers to the characters as Rekha – my wife and Selvi – my mother…they were in no way involved in this incident.…

Accepting gifts from relatives

Accepting gifts from relatives

Rekha`s elder sister Rema and her husband Sudhir have come down to India from the Gulf. What kabuliwalas were in the 70s, the Gulfwalas are today. They always come back…

Some quotes dedicated to fathers of the World

Tomorrow, I will be in Madurai for my father`s first death anniversary. Been a little down the last couple of days thinking about those dreadful days. Thought, maybe I should…

Get, Set, Go! Or should it be Get, Wet, Go!

Bed sheets have played an important role in my life. So much, if there were to be a flood in Chennai – and I am not saying this because there…

Superstition

Last Saturday Rekha and I went to drop off my mother and younger sister at the railway station. They were catching the 9 p.m. Nellai Express to reach Madurai on…