Here’s Lakshi (again). OK, so I am a little besotted. But there she is in my kitchen every morning and my garden every afternoon. Last night she saw I was serving cake to some guests and [...]

Can there be anything more delightful than finding a child at your window, just inches below the sill and eye-level with your desk, peering in at you – you, so seriously engaged, all [...]

  What was I thinking? It wasn’t a sudden decision. It wasn’t a decision taken after long and careful thought. It wasn’t a decision at all. It was an order from on high, [...]

Well, maybe I have a few more things to say about going grey. It wasn’t actually a sudden decision. I first began thinking about it when my oldest friend – Martha Rose – came to [...]

This is how I looked six months ago. Long (by my standards) hair. Dark brown. I am over 50 in this photo and with my family inheritance, there is no way my hair can be this color naturally. Dad [...]

Like many things in India, crossing the street requires more courage and determination than one expects to have to come up with for such an everyday event. Street-crossing styles range from the [...]

I’m not a doctor or a nurse, but I have patients. It’s amazing what you can learn to do. I take temperatures, check blood pressure, administer chest physio, nebulize, adjust [...]

A few days ago I met Nisha on the road. Nisha is Gia’s Mom, whose story I shared back in October. Gia has a little brother named Kartik, and I told his story a few weeks later. Gia was [...]

You know her. She’s the one who serves the tea in your friend’s house, or in the office where you work or the office where you are visiting. She keeps her head down and seldom makes [...]

I love resolutions – reflecting on them, making them, keeping them, discarding them: the circle of life! This year, mine include more hand-written letters, more time with my mother-in-law and her [...]