Category: home


  • pre-script – I have two important and dear to me drafts ready to be edited and then published. But I wrote about this and published it instead. Please don’t hesitate, go ahead and question my priorities as I am questioning my entire existence right now. Are you a ritual person? I am into specific rituals.…

  • I moved into this new home more than 6 months ago. The place has an open kitchen, airy and spacious living room, huge wardrobe, enough furniture for me to never think about buying anything new, a terrace and lots of plants. Yes, my generous ex-owner thought she could leave all her non human living co-habitants…

  • You start packing your stuff. You stumble across stuff you never knew existed. You label boxes. Make a note to use things that you still don’t want to throw away. You throw away some stuff willingly. With some stuff, you are just reluctant to let go. For eg. the beautiful glass bottles you collected to…

  • Gulmohar

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    As we left the Bangalore railway station and hopped on the bus to mysore, my eyes started searching for something familiar. Not until we came outside the city and had crossed the famous ‘ramgarh of sholay’ did happen the first sighting. Of a full blossomed Gulmohar. Territories were no longer marked. I felt at ease.…

  • When you wake up all groggy eyed at 10 am despite wanting to wake up at 7 for an hour long yoga session. You wonder about your self control when it comes to sleep and all that blah. But you also remind yourself of the late party hours of earlier night when you pseudo partied…

  • Flooding 101

    All the comments, observations in this post are all out of jest. I mean no offense to anyone actually experiencing these calamities in the nature’s fury sense.So I was all ready to leave house at 6 in the morning for a short trip to Mumbai. The brother out of a sudden burst of sisterly love,…

  • Home encounters!

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    1. Aai is finally bugged of the whole daughter-staying-away-from-home-for-past-eight-years-finally-back-home pampering. OK. More than pampering she gets annoyed if I present the same line in a dramatic tone when asked to do anything mundane. Its superrr fun 😀But I commend her spirits when everyday without fail she asks me so what subji (vegetable) would you like…