Posts filed under “Life in North India”
The Rajans go out on a picnic with friends
Four nights back Rekha turned towards me in bed and started at me. Been married to her for the last six years I knew this was a dangerous move. As a weapon, it ranked a little below Arnold Schwarzenegger’s AMT Hardballer Longslide (with laser sighting) in the movie Terminator but above Sylvester Stallone’s SVD Dragunov [...]
Types of people you see inside elevators/lifts
We all spend at least five minutes everyday traveling the lifts. If you are a lift operator you probably spend more than eight hours inside the lifts….but since we didn’t expect you to understand English and be reading blogs on the internet, this blog post doesn’t cater to your interest. Folks working on 30 plus [...]
North Indian winter – bitter times
Four years back, I tasted my first winter here in Gurgaon. Not really my first…coz as a small kid I have stayed in Jalandhar for three years and tasted bitter winters before. But as an adult it was my first time. The difference between tasting winter as a child and as an adult is that [...]
And the rainy season begins
If you are living in Delhi or Gurgaon, my apologies….rain was never meant for you. If you live elsewhere in the country, chances are you have seen rain and understand what it is. Here is an article on the rainy season. I don`t remember when I first saw rain. Since I don`t remember, why don`t [...]
Thank you God for helping us survive winter
Gurgaon is cold. You probably wonder why I am saying so 18 months after shifting to the city …that`s because you don`t know that I am NOT talking about the ‘attitude` cold but the weather ‘cold`. In September 2007 I had written on how a South Indian family was suffering a North Indian winter. In [...]