We're going up to the hills, from whence cometh the promise of cool air and rain. I wrote several posts about the area where I'm goi...

It's been 104F in the shade for the last several days, and now is the time chosen by the Corporation (the city government) to dig up our...

He's a very worldweary creature, isn't he? Endangered and resigned to it. Gazing out from the back of a water lorry.

The moonsoon arrived late in Kerala, began to spread out over the Subcontinent, and then stalled. Sweltering Chennai waits stoically for th...

The art of Gail Rieke . "Gail Rieke orchestrates some of the most sensitive collage works being done today. Their uniqueness has to do ...

Some Parsi friends came home for dinner last night, bearing a big pot of tomato rice. I love this dish - with some yoghurt on the side it c...

There is a real estate boom going on in Chennai. People dream of selling their houses for large amounts to IT companies. And builders are ...

My poetry friend Helena Nelson has started a new venture to publish poetry chapbooks; and a magazine, Sphinx : A Magazine for Poetry People...

I really like the Poet's Choice in the Washington Post Book Review every Sunday. The poems are currently being presented by Robert Pin...

I had to drive out to West Mambalam early on Sunday morning. I passed a long queue of people waiting to get into a temple on Venkatanarayan ...

A post to my sketchblog: Scenes From A Dentist .

On the 25th we paid a man Rs. 20 per tree to harvest and clean our three coconut trees. He cut down 84 coconuts, leaving the ones that are ...

I have been having so many problems with my computer - it's been crashing and crashing, and I'm feeling quite flattened. I'm st...

The title is a Hindi colloquialism. It means, literally, There's something black in the lentils; and figuratively, There's somethin...

I've added another threat exchange from Hindi movies to my collection. This one is from Dhoom : The policeman is trying to find the thi...

I don't know how they are to work or be incarcerated in, but from the outside Chennai's old police stations are among the more charm...

Abraham dropped by again yesterday. He has somehow decided that we, like him, should sell our house to a computer company for a fabulous pr...

From the Onion (because I was morosely sipping tea when I read it): National Poetry Month Raises Awareness Of Poetry Prevention NEW YORK—Th...

We were waiting for friends to arrive for dinner when the doorbell rang. I swung the door wide, expecting them, but it was a man who drops ...

From The Onion : New Tech-Support Caste Arises In India NEW DELHI—Thanks to widespread outsourcing of telephone-service jobs, a sixth caste ...