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Sweet, little Ana who had a horrible burn accident on 1st November, just a day before my birthday, came home. After a month and a week in the ICU fighting for her life through ups and downs, she came home last week. As she is still susceptible to infections, she…

I was away to Hyderabad for the weekend and what a total mess of a visit this was. There is an agitation about the formation of Telangana state which has been going on for a while which picked up momentum when the students joined or were used by the politicians…

What I meant was Hindi movie heroines. The other day watching Ms. Katrina Kaif for the promotion of a movie, I was struck by how little Hindi she knew. She still has a very discernible phirang accent and she is literally deadpan. She was doing great playing arm candy in…

It is nearing 4th December and my mom would have been 62 had she lived this long. She passed away in 2001, just 4 months after my wedding, quite suddenly….. It is not as if I do not feel the pain of losing her but it has become less with…

Okay, I was expecting this question to come from Siddharth and also have given a thought as to how to broach this with him. At his age of 7 years, I could not come up with any satisfactory answer. The topic of course is how are babies born? This is…

As 26/11 came and went and as we had one year of no violence…… Each one of us paid our respects in his/ her own way. Yes, Mr. Chidambaram has been an able Home Minister. There are changes and loopholes in the security apparatus. But what struck me the most…

Disclaimer: The post below is a work of pure truth. Any resemblance to any character living or dead is definitely intentional. They say that Jodiyan swarg mein banti hain ( Alliances are made in heaven). When I look around at some of the couples I know, it could have been…

He is 3 years old and yet seems like such a little baby at times. His vocabulary is expanding every day. Like his brother and mother, he talks a lot :). He is picking up some English from school in addition to his fluent Hindi. He says, ” I want…

With the Liberhan Report being conveniently leaked out to the media before being tabled in the Parliament, there is a huge furore just before the 17th anniversary of the event. I remember I was in Bombay in FY BSc and we were doing our Physics practicals when the news of…

The Koda case splashed around in the newspapers in the last weeks is the latest in the series of scams in the country. This one at 4000 crores is humongous but will probably hold the readers’ interest for a few days till the media moves on to a bigger story.…