Today was the valedictory celebration for the graduates of our second Teaching Assistants Training program. When I arrived, they were all still dancing, but as soon as they saw me they got very [...]

My dear friend Deepa Bhushan turned 50 on November 1st . Her children organized a birthday party for her and they invited me and Ravi. Ravi and I seldom go anywhere together (That’s life. [...]

We have a sweet, small garden. A few days ago, our mali left four baby eggplant at the kitchen door. They were so shiny and beautiful, I couldn’t bear to cook them. The next day, he plucked [...]

The average age in our house is 68. At 51, I am one of the kids, and like most people, I think I am even younger. Also like most people, I’m not. As much as I would like to believe I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]