Category: bringing up mother

  • Meet, Platinum

    Gold the most common metal used for jewellery in india, silver is second in the lower income market and platinum in the upwardly mobile crowd. Gold as we all know look, beautiful, bright, shiny yellow, and is rated in carats, pure gold is too soft. Other metals are used to strengthen it, in the south…

  • Bombay smell!

    Smelly to smiley.– www.facebook.com/AmbiPurIndia “Bombay smell” my 2 ½ yr. Old daughter had declared. We were amused then. We were amused again, when she declared it as we entered a flat that was shut for about a year. The smell was stagnant water and rotting sewer. but then I realized the there were no good…

  • The Whiff of lost friend.

    My closest friends are books, in the human world it used to be Anupa. Jarod Kintz wrote,”flowers and fear are a lot alike, for one flowers and fear have a distinct smell, and two I’m currently trying to grow both in my garden.” Anupa my friend and I sat on the rocks of Manipal, they…

  • Waur Ah tae host a ceilidh…

    When Ah hae a ceilidh,,, ‘main ‘en barbie lets gang ceilidh. “The Tea Party I had a little tea party This afternoon at three. ‘Twas very small- Three guest in all- Just I, myself and me. Myself ate all the sandwiches, While I drank up the tea; ‘Twas also I who ate the pie And…

  • Bird in the cage.

    Violence against women, The picture emerging is that of, domestic violence, suppression, rape. This is not something that happens to a person, events colour the life of the children, of the society at large. But violence is more than that it is violation or infringement into personal space and right. This happens a lot. The…

  • parents and holiday

    Should working parents get summer holidays? I would assume all parents do work, at different levels, some self-employed, some in public sector, some in private sector, some housewives, or lets use the modern word “home maker” well breaks are part of any job profile, when and how long I guess are company policies. If people…