If you were born in the early eighties, you would understand the excitement. Movies at home meant cozy nights spent around the idiot box, dinner and chores completed earlier than usual and in full cooperation, past curfew time in pyjamas and blankets, with only TV rays illuminating the room, to watch a Hollywood or Bollywood … Continue reading Movies at Home
How does YOUR family look like? While some of us may allege picture perfect responses to the above question, we all undeniably suffer from mild to severe cases of dysfunctionality in family relationships - complicating, straining and even estranging each other for self sanity or self centredness, whichever necessary. The movie set in UP, begins … Continue reading Ramprasad ki Tehrvi
My husband never proposed. Not even during the five months preceding the wedding, after six years of dating. I never had the fortune (or misfortune) to hear the three magic words, or experience the grand gestures traditionally associated with a wedding proposal. He simply asked me once what the Church would require for a mixed … Continue reading The Cook of Castamar
"I do not have the talent of conversing easily with people I have never met before. " And so finally, I 'read' and 'watched'...Pride and Prejudice! Ofcourse, I'm late, but not intentionally. Let me rewind my stance: In grade 7, the class was introduced to Pride and Prejudice, a novel that was severely abridged for … Continue reading Live and Laugh a Little
It was the early Nineties, and it was our first trip to the British Club. No, we were neither members nor British nationals, but gained access through our visit to Mr. William, and his warm and friendly wife, Mrs. Cecil. The lovely couple were given a modest accommodation of a room and a pantry at … Continue reading The Folly of Trusting
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