Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • festivals ahead.– ready reckoner

    With Navarathri and Diwali round the corner how many of you are getting palpitations? I am so this time I have pulled out an ancient cut out I had from the Savvy magazine. Diwali  is basically a family time for togetherness and not an emotional and physical roller coaster happening. There are somethings one can do, Finish…

  • Viola Bibula Vita

    Very often I think of myself  as a sponge, soaking in information, and then soaking in the atmosphere and somewhere along the way the information blends with the atmosphere to create a story, so that all the ink gets out, for me soak in  new hues. Every hero worth his salt, be it Krishna, Christ,…

  • Estranged from myself.

      Urvi has walked the earth 40yrs, today. Yet the excitement of a birthday is still there. God knows why. Of course her father, would no more call her, “tring tring” She looked at it with a smile on her face, her mother. “Uri, I want you to go to the school, and find out…

  • Individually together

      I  am I in thought I am you in love Individually together let us live this life. There is no more lovely, friendly, charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage—Martin Luther. The serial love marriage vs, arranged marriage advertises that the failure rates are greater in love marriage, well this was true…

  • To Soak or not?

    Soak no more, No sweetie I did not think of an umbrella, for I love soaking myself in the rain.  Nor did I think of the shower. Of course a will-o-wisp of warm water with lavender fragrance did flash, but I love soaking my feet too. Know something; to the Egyptians a pair of legs…

  • Shop-A-Spouse

    Love marriage vs. Arranged marriage. My friends daughter has completed graduation, and on the last lap of her postgraduate. The traditional question of find a match for her come up. “Let her take her own risk” was my friends attitude, but the girl said “Ma and Pa please find someone for me.” After that despite…