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This is a very special guest blog post. This post is the first post written by my 9-year-old son, Siddharth. He has been pestering me for a while to create his own blog and finally I did. To give him a headstart, I requested him to do one guest blog…

A recent blogpost from a blogger friend is an inspiration for this blog post. As we all know, come September and the festival season is upon us. One after another, festivals follow. We may not celebrate all of them but willy nilly we are exposed to all sometimes due to…

She sat with her 16-year-old son fresh out of school and full of beans that he was beginning college. “How cool is that, mom?” P smiled at her. She smiled back and was amazed to see how much her son had transformed physically in the last one year. From a…

Can you see the little baby with the other eggs? Coco in dad’s lap along with Gautam Coco, my little Lab puppy, is almost 4.5 months old. And, he is a beautiful boy, amazingly strong and has grown up so much in the last couple of months. I can no…

Scenario I: A popular local actor brutally beats up his wife, burns her with cigarettes, and threatens her with a loaded gun. She lodges a police complaint. The entire film fraternity gather around him, pressuring the wife to take back her complaint. She does retract her statement, but the police…

Gautam in white with his friends Siddharth on the extreme left enjoyed with the younger kids. Fun with balloons My younger son, Gautam,  turned 5 yesterday. It feels like 5 years makes for a grown up boy but looking at him, he still feels and looks so tiny :). Perhaps…

In our culture, parents, grandparents and other elders have a place of importance. One particular endearing aspect of our culture is the respect we show to elders. Since childhood, we are taught to touch the feet of our elders. We treat them with respect. We don’t raise our voices against…

There is one trait in human beings that really confounds me. In the last book I read, a son is having a rare conversation with his normally reserved father. In that conversation, the father shares a painful childhood memory when his own reserved father physically caned him for no fault…

My 4-year-old son tells me, “my nails are really shark.” 🙂 My elder son asks if Father of the Nation can be changed. I said no because “can you change your parents?” After a bit of thought, he said no (Thank God for that :)). My elder son calls his…

Case I: There appears a Facebook update from a friend who hardly ever browses the net. On the response to that status, my doubt was confirmed that it wasn’t my friend but the spouse who was posting from her account. Case II: An email sent to a friend is read…