Principal madam.

We were about to cross the street when she tugged at my hand and said over the din of passing vehicles-” Lets not head towards that auto rickshaw. The driver was my student once and he will not charge us the fare.” I grinned and changed the angle of my targeted walk. Then I also […]

The multi-tasker.

So after ‘awesome’, comes another one-‘Love’. Such an easy to use word. ‘I love -the weather, love your dress, love the way you dance, love running , Love All(tennis) ,What are you doing love? and…I love you.’A perfect word of affection, abundantly used to evade the inadequacies of one’s vocabulary! Same @4 letters LOVE /even […]

I remember.

Our beautiful small hilly town with swiss looks! It was the ultimate romantic locale for any soft heart. The majestic sunrise from behind the ranges always filled me with so much exuberance. Getting ready for work and driving down the hills to my airbase, through fields of corn on both sides and small ravines with […]

Meeting the 3 idiots -Part 2

Another week went by wishing for a chance encounter, watching the ‘convocation’scenes and the classroom scenes. Sharman Joshi with no star hang ups was always obliging us. He posed with the whole batch as many times as was requested. I saw a very hungry Boman Irani on several occasions, mostly at the cafeteria having a […]

Meeting the 3 idiots-Part 1

Usually I never looked at the name board of our institution but that day something garish screamed at me, so I looked up and did a double take! Imperial College of Engineering??? Since when?? I stopped my car at the guardroom to show my ID and enquired about it. Movie shoot, I was told. The […]

The Scorpion

We sat sifting through our trunk loads of clothes and utensils and books. The usual segregation into needed /not needed categories, before the trunks were packed, loaded on a truck and sent off.Our life was totally contained in some 34 Steel and wooden Trunks of varying sizes, some even big enough for our refrigerator and […]

The Pakistani Pathos

Humsafar, Zindagi Gulzar Hai,Maat,Thakan…got hooked on to Pakistani serials a couple of years ago when they were state sponsored and we were trying to build bridges but can’t get enough of it now with the anti Pak sentiments controlling our airwaves. So YouTube it is. What is this friend and foe business? I have had […]

Awesome!

The word was nowhere around when I was growing up. Not even when I was majoring in English. It was not there when I needed it the most : to sum up the might and suaveness of the dashing young men trying to impress me! I had to resort to at least five to seven […]

Sunday Treat

As a child, Sunday meant so much! From no bath in the morning to Mummy struggling in the kitchen doling out crisp masala dosas and a leisurely breakfast eaten off a plate and not from a tiffin box. Papa devouring two newspapers over endless supply of tea followed by Papa’s quick jaunt to the barber’s […]

Kashmir Do, Bihar Lo.

On that sweltering day of July in Hyderabad, she just floated into the dining hall of our officers’ mess.A True Kashmir ki Kali in a cyan blue salwar suit, blushing and beautiful, she gushed over her own late arrival at the training academy!! Most of us were already in the rigours of our rigorous training […]