I have always been fascinated by twins – haven’t you? Apart from assuming I would have a set of my own (my mother was a twin, her mother was a twin and my father’s father was too), I have always wondered about twins’ life [...]

Feeding Moy Moy looks complicated until you get used to it. It’s a precise ritual we follow five times a day and, because she eats through a tube, the menu has few variations. Three times a day it’s Ensure, the other two it’s [...]

Many years ago, I was on a plane from Hyderabad where I had gone for work. In those days, I hardly ever flew anywhere (no one did then, at least in India) and I was feeling chuffed because the trip had been paid for (by the National Institute [...]

This is a story within a story and you need to know both of them to get the whole picture. Let’s start with Gia. I met her while walking with Moy Moy one afternoon. She approached us curiously and started asking questions about why Moy was [...]

Cathleen came calling this afternoon. There she is, sitting inside my laptop, moving and talking just as if she were right next to me. When I moved away from my parents, I was the same age she is now, but while the distance in miles was also the [...]

Vasant Vihar, the fancy neighborhood just to the right of ours, is going Gated. It’s a big deal, and I’m sure there were many meetings of the Society’s Executive Committee to decide which streets to block off and at what time, [...]

There’s always one kid in every class. The one who won’t pay attention. The one who distracts the others with his clowning and silly behaviour. The one the teacher feels like slapping “for his own good.” There are some [...]