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Tea-Maker
I have been running a household sans help for over six months now. I do all the cooking and cleaning and washing-up and food-shopping and shelving and so on, but the one thing I cannot abide is making...
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The Resolve of the Bombay Catholics and Miss Danie’s Easter Eggs
I joined work in the middle of Lent, and discovered that observant Catholics from Bombay and abouts go vegetarian for Lent. For all of it. I have known people to give up a particular favourite for Lent...
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Puppy Learns the Stairs
The elections were held yesterday at Bombay, and people flooded social media with pictures of their inked fingers, proudly showing that they voted. Which is all very well, but getting off our...
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Meet the New Pup: Burfi
Burfi is a quadragonal sweet that is, in essence, marzipan. In India, it is usually made from cashews, and is therefore called kaju (cashew)-burfi. Given that my partner and I are compulsive...
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Farewell to Pup
This post was due a week back, but it isn’t something I wanted to advertise to the world. Being a parent is hard, especially when you’re handicapped by language and species. We adored our second pup...
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A Birth in the Family
Well, not quite, but who can resist misquoting a classic comic? Certainly not me. This update is especially for Rakhi, who asked about our puppy Kaju, and everyone else who have been following our...
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Tangerine Floor and Lemonade Tiles
Hello hello, hope you’re well, long time no read… and zap!, I am back. It’s 5:30 in the morning in India, dawn hasn’t broken over Bombay yet, but the first promising drops of the monsoon falls outside...
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Our Brave Dogs
Since the rains set in, we usually take our pups, Kaju and Shorshe, to the football field only on the days we give them a bath. They have a great romp in the gloriously green grass and puddles, cake...
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Book Quotes: Push by Sapphire
After ages, I have discovered a cache of e-books that were stashed for a suitably rainy day in one corner of an old storage drive, and promptly forgotten. My memory can always be counted upon to keep...
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Celebrations and Family: Is Generational Isolation A Good Thing?
Pepsi adverts are usually the pits, stupid writing and empty glitz, but this little short film on the importance of homecoming, family, and celebrations – with the barest glimmer of product placement –...
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My First Ever Pet Comes Home!
This week, we have adopted a tiny street-pup that was struggling to stay alive on the busy roads of a crowded Bombay suburb.Puppiekins is calledKaju – which is Bengali for cashew. Don’t ask me why we...
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My Furry Babies: 1
I dusted off the DSLR recently, and chased the dogs around the flat. These are the results, Set 1. My dogs are beautiful creatures, even if I say so myself. Expect more pictures in the near future....
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Freeing Indian Conscience
A bit late in the day, but still worth recording. Of course, legal practitioners have been arguing on social media that this freedom from declaring a religious affiliation was always present in the...
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Pix: Powai Dog Carnival
We’re not the most outgoing of people. We did hear about the Powai Dog Carnival on social media, but really, we had no intention of going. But then my partner called fellow-doggie parents R&M, and...
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The God-dog to My Puppies
This is the epitome of an angelic dog. Her name is Bahadur. She’s our local canine resident, very affectionate towards friendly humans and perfectly civil to those afraid of or indifferent to dogs....
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Meeting Newton
Newton, the Physics department cat, wanders fealessly into faculty offices, chooses a lap, and parks himself there for as long as he likes, scratching the attached human lightly if cuddles are not...
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A Photo Essay on Destruction
We had a lovely guest for dinner yesterday. In his honour – and in an effort to keep face-licking off our mehmaan nawazi – we allowed the dogs to romp unsupervised in our bedroom, while we socialised...
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