Category: bringing up mother

  • Down the Memory lane.

    We are busy  planning for tomorrows Ramleela it is a student production and at the break, Mrs.Padmashree Josalkar and I were discussing our growing up, Padmashree is from the famous Gubbi theatre, she was talking of how the kids of the family would step in small roles, and as little kids they would forget that…

  • Ethical Will-passing on values

    Long ago I had written a blog on Ethical will, an ethical will. An Ethical will (Hebrew: “Zava’ah”) is a document designed to pass ethical values from one generation to the next. Rabbis and Jewish laypeople have continued to write ethical wills during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I had found the entire concept very intriguing. I cannot find the blog…

  • Second Time Round

    Second Time Round

    Miracles do happen, and Grandmothers, are the guardian angels of their grand-daughters. If my second daughter is all popular young lady today, I have my gynaecologist Dr.Kasturi Nayak to thank, I had gone for my monthly check up just before we left for the parking slot, she said let me listen to my grandbaby and…

  • The Belly Contemplations.

    When we were at medical college the standard joke was that guys will not ask for directions. It is a biological thing, which is why it takes several million sperm cells to locate a female egg, the egg is relative to them the size of whatever town. the journey of a pregnant mother is dotted…

  • The Real Heroes

    A lofty call, how will I teach my kids to press Ctrl+S   for nature? Well I will not, teach them. Simply because kids cannot be taught, they learn through imitation. They imbibe values that we can hand them. We are destroying forests, we are destroying wild life, we have come to a stage where we…

  • Mutation Not Evolution.

    An interesting prompt. How do we teach kids to keep environment safe? The answer is WE DON’T, the onus of keeping the earth safe, for human existence is on us and not the kids. Let’s  just take a deep a breathe, and connect with the environment, ever thought of it? Turn the television off, the…