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My Family & In-Laws

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Mobiles - still an enigma for most

A month back Rekha gifted her father a mobile and asked him to start using it right away. He had always depended on a landline that would stop working because of something as trivial as a neighbor’s fart (lose connections can happen when walls of the house shake!).
Rekha did mention to me that she had […]

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 Alchemist’. I am not making this up.
The only difference between The Alchemist’s protagonist and my great grand father was that ….my old man […]

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 for me, and my sisters.

Maggi Two Minutes noodles

I first came to know about Maggi in 1985, when we were about to leave Kholapur (in Maharashtra) […]

The frog in my father in law’s house

There are eighteen types of people who shouldn’t be reading this blog post and one of them is: Those who get nightmares in which huge frogs with wet, spotted backs chase them down the street even as they slip on the road while running for safety.
OK.…enough of the disclaimer. This post is about the frog […]