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I was very keen to meet Gautam’s teacher this year and was eagerly awaiting the first PTI. Gautam, as was mentioned in an earlier post, was unable to even hold the pencil the entire last year in Pre Kg. I taught him how to hold pencil during the summer vacations,…

T3 or Terminal 3, a swanky new terminal was inaugurated at the Delhi International Airport. It is supposed to be the fifth largest terminal in the world and is impressive by any given standards. Of course, why is Delhi getting beautified so rapidly is in preparation for the foreign guests…

My son, Gautam, fell sick with terrible cough and cold right on Sunday. This entire week, he has been unwell and has missed school. He has this horrible-sounding nagging cough, which goes on and on. It is especially worse at night. He is on a cough syrup prescribed by the…

Siddharth has got the soccer fever, of late. Every evening, he takes his football and goes out to find boys to play with. There are 3 groups of boys who play football in our community. Two are groups of older boys and one group is his age group. For some…

My younger son, Gautam, is all of 3 years and 9 months. He looks very cute and is very loving in disposition. He looks for any excuse to hug Gurdev and me, but is very shy and not so open to affection from others. He is an avid worker. And,…

Yesterday was Father’s Day. I called up my dad in Mumbai to wish him and speak to him. When I said, “Happy Father’s Day, Papa.” He laughed and said thank you. He added that this is an American concept, essentially. They are hardly in touch with their dads, so they…

It has been fun watching the football world cup since it started on 11th June this year. India, as usual, failed to qualify for the World Cup. There is a lot of football to watch with the best teams in the world competing. The things I like best about the…

Okay is such a harmless term, and in most cases it is used to convey “fine.” But, the most innovative use of okay comes from my son, Gautam. He rounds of each sentence with an okay. But the meaning conveyed could be drastically different. It could be a soft “okay”…

Indian courts are atrociously slow in delivering verdicts, most times, favoring the rich and the powerful. It has been media, which has been instrumental in highlighting the cases of injustice like the Jessica Lal and Ruchika Girhotra cases. The verdicts have taken decades to be delivered crawling the slow ladder…

I have started loving the print media. For one, it provides us comprehensive information about all events. Secondly, it does not keep repeating the same thing over and over again. For current events, my favorite newspaper is DNA and magazine is Outlook. These days, whenever you switch on any news…