Don’t you wish you had an Invisibility Cloak like Harry Potter’s? I would give a lot to be able to hear just what people are saying sometimes.This little duo, for example. The girl looks concerned. She’s listening intently. Her [...]

Just about everything reminds me of something, but a fragrance has more memory power than almost anything I know. I was walking past a house in Vasant Vihar one morning last week – just for a recent example. The doors were all open and the [...]

This morning I got Moy Moy dressed as usual – nothing special or different except for this: as I buttoned her jeans, for some reason it struck me to put my hands in her pockets. When I did, I found they were all crumpled up – you [...]

A few weeks ago, I told the story of Moy Moy’s mysterious weight gain. After some clever detective work, we decided it was due to her seizures finally getting under control and we gave full marks to Dr Sebastian for the transformation. Moy [...]

This morning while walking to the store, a young woman on a motorbike passed me, wobbling and weaving. I glanced up sharply and saw she had her head down and was TEXTING. “Are you crazy?” I shouted at her back. She turned her head, [...]

I’ve been telling this story for over three decades now and like all good stories, it just goes on gathering depth and new layers of meaning. Since today is the 33rd anniversary of its occurrence, it seems like a good time to tell it once [...]

There is a scene in my favorite American television series (West Wing) in which two characters are shown going through their normal morning routines. The point of the juxtaposition is to illustrate how Donna (a lowly White House assistant)  is [...]