Of all the objects in our kitchen this blue oven is by far my favorite. We’ve had it for 25 years now and the story of how it came to be in our kitchen is unlikely and wonderful. When we first came to India, we were bone poor. We had [...]

One of the best things about taking the train from Dehradun to Delhi is the 20 minute halt in Saharanpur. ( I love the announcements at each station. They all say “The scheduled stop at XYZ station will be for two minutes only.” At [...]

The electricity went out this evening at 8:45. No lights in the house and no street lights either. But I still wanted to go for my usual post-dinner walk. I put Moy Moy to bed, strapped on my glow-in-the-dark reflectors (a gift from my friend [...]

I am an ardent admirer of safety pins. I love the small ones especially, for their sweet look and elegant design, but these large diaper pins are amazing too. I have any number of clothes which would fall off me without safety pins. Mostly, this [...]

A funny thing. Life has been so busy lately (facebook, free cell, you know – important stuff) I’ve not been reading as much as usual.  But then Rachel arrived in town and I orchestrated my trips to Delhi to coincide with [...]

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about Generosity and How It Happens. I talked about the citizens of Delhi who seemed to have a more highly developed spirit of generosity than we do here in Dehradun. I’m afraid I have to withdraw that impression. [...]

Train travel is what you make it. In the old days, when we first came to India, one of the best parts of travelling was planning for the journey: the food we would prepare, the entertainment we would carry, the small comforts we would pack. In [...]