She looks like a kindly old lady, but she is formidable. She has very strong views on just about everything and mostly she keeps them to herself, to be revealed at an appropriate moment. That moment tends to be when something else is going [...]

  Here’s a recipe for a pumpkin soup which I guarantee you will love. I have made it for over a hundred people and it has never yet failed to please. Ingredients: 2 medium onions, finely chopped (2 cups) 2 tablespoons butter 4 large [...]

It’s the Lenten homestretch. Today is Palm Sunday and tomorrow we move into Holy Week: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday – Easter! While the trend now is to do good things rather than give up good things, I find the old [...]

My mentor and role-model Vina, soon to be 80, has a secret recipe for happiness: make young friends, she advises. At 52, I am in that category for her and our friendship makes me feel good while it keeps her in touch with a whole world she might [...]

Moy Moy has been eating Ensure for five years now. She goes through two tins every week which makes 520 tins since she got the tube put in. 520 tins. Each one comes with a little blue scoop as the standard measure and I always save the one from [...]

Sign language! What an amazing and expressive form of communication. In our organisation, I’ve noticed that the women who love to dance are also the most fluent signers . . . At the recent RCI conference I attended in Delhi, I witnessed [...]

Is there some rule that says the Government of India MUST make its websites as impenetrable, tedious and boring as humanly possible? Here’s a screen shot from the Ministry of Social Justice. I spent an hour wading through its nightmarish [...]