This and that
Bhagya, our resident gourmet chef, mood-lifter, angst buster and housekeeper all rolled into one is still ill. It’s been five days now, and things are falling apart. Besides bringing in the newspaper in the morning (on crutches), I now have to make my own tea. I also have to count the number of clothes sent […]
Come the fifteenth of December, there are aromas that waft downhill on, I kid you not, High Street. It’s in a lovely tree-lined, park-filled secret neighbourhood in Bangalore where people can freely take their nightly constitutional, in short-shorts (men or women), at 10 pm, without fear of reprisal. It could be on account of the […]
It’s confounding. It’s frustrating. It’s wasteful. It’s meaningless. And if you’re not from around here, (India that is) you’re probably howling in pain each time the sharp end of one of them sticks you in the finger. No one’s bothered to explain the mystery to you? No problem. I take it upon myself to unravel […]
We usually don’t go out to eat mid-week. It’s too tiring. There’s too much traffic and it’s not possible to get up on time the next morning if you’re scarfing the good stuff all night long. But last night, there was nothing to eat at home. No pasta. No pizza. No warm bread with garlic […]
It is with sadness that i learned that Ravi Shankar, the great, trail-blazing maestro passed away. He created forms tof music that didn’t exist and put Indian music on the map for the rest of the world, paving the path for so many of us to walk across. I had a brief encounter with him […]
I travel a lot. And these days it seems I spend more time in the air than on the ground. I don’t like it a bit, but my boss and SO (Significant Other) claims it’s all for a good cause. Eventually, he swears, I’ll be liberated from the shackles of work and can expect to […]
Bangalore Mirror, 11 Dec 2012 Well, my neighbourhood has, I’m pleased to report. It all started about four years ago. Back then, the people in my family, the ones in my building, those who strode energetically around Milton Street Park, jaywalkers on the street, everyone around Cooke Town were extremely grumpy, grouchy, sullen. No one […]
Nov 27, 2012, Executive Traveller Sunory Dutt With a cover depicting a pair of sexy legs in Lolita-ish lace-ups on one foot and killer heals on the other, you’re already predisposed to judging this book by its cover. Any woman who’s made that successful transition is worth a read. Men on my Mind is a […]
I’m a singer/ I’m a writer/ I’m just another nail biter/ I hate it when my work is done.
Radha Thomas 