A pleasant lady we know dropped by yesterday to give us this object, which was filled with sweets, and to which was attached an invitation c...

R said, "Well, that’s all bhootkaal for me." I got a start – “What? Ghost-time? What do you mean?” I thought he meant that al...

I’ve been listening to this song a lot lately: Mathura Nagarpati, from the film Raincoat . It’s sung by Shubha Mudgal, a classically-train...

One crow head cocked carbon-steel beak agape is raffish half-comical Look again at sleekness at talons Many crows a raucous convocation squ...

A magazine ad from 1979. The gent on the left is the Tamil brahmin stereotype, with his forehead covered by a big caste mark (denoting, in...

As a novice sketcher and an Indian cricket fan (finally! something to be happy about!), I was interested to see this little article in the H...

This article in the Guardian spoke to me. I'm posting it in full here, since I don't know how long it will remain online: Europe...

R has constructed a parable that I've been remembering a lot lately: a man decides to take sannyaas , to leave the burden of material l...

We went with friends to Mahabalipuram, stopping on the way at Chola Mandal, the artists' village. While our friends looked into the gal...

A raucous clamour arose in the street outside. I was just stepping over Lakshmi’s mop for the fifth time – we don’t usually get in each oth...

I really like this: Sallie Wolf's Moon Project I have been watching for the moon since November 30, 1994. On that morning I was surpris...

The air is beginning to heat up. The mango tree burgeoned with flowers this year, more than ever before. Now they have turned brown and dro...

Some wonderful pictures and the story of a visit to a traditional Tamil house in Mylapore, one of the oldest parts of the city - from Tilo: ...

This is for those aren't Punjabi, and who watched yesterday's India-Pakistan cricket match, and the blah-blah of commentary during a...

I started out with a photograph I had taken in November. I confess that I moved the palm trees, which were nearby, into the picture to ...

We went to a surgical supply store, because R wanted to look at digital blood pressure readers. They had several models, all made in China;...

The Everyday Matters drawing group, to which I belong, had a challenge this week, to draw what you see when you walk in your door. I've...

(I had originally titled this post 'Rickshaw Kaaran' - but renamed it, using the more respectful 'Kaarar', after reading...

Last night we saw a trashy Hindi film, Hawas (Lust) (one of two Hindi remakes of the American film Unfaithful - the other being Murder - ...

We went to Cafe Mocha, a new and fashionable place on newly fashionable Khader Nawaz Khan Road. It's a franchise of a popular cafe in M...