Whether a book is engaging or not depends on two things – one, how much is the book competent in the skill of engagement; and two, the state of the mind of the reader. According to me, the state of mind of the reader is …
Living in a city and traveling to a city make you explore two completely different parts of the same city. When we travel to a city, we try visiting the top 5 of the must-go most-visited kind of places. When we live there, we try …
While growing up, weekend breakfast always meant having stuffed parantha (shallow-fried flatbread stuffed with grated or mashed vegetables). I could never have enough of them. I remember watching something like Chanakya or Mahabharata on television on Saturday or Sunday morning while my dear mother served …
A child going to a school in London has weeks of holidays. There is no dearth of school holidays in India as well, but most of those holidays are sporadic, one here and one there. Here, the holidays come in bundle. A school academic year …
While shifting to London last year, we packed Little B’s Lego blocks in Ziplocs. Once we were here, every time Little B wanted to play with the blocks, she got irritated because she was often unable to find the pieces she was looking for. She …
TeAfter quite an eventful December, we went into hibernation in January. It got colder and we stepped out of the house for absolutely necessary stuff like Mr B for work or Little B for school or I for running errands. However last weekend, we told …
I was scrolling through the long list of TV guide last night when I suddenly realised that the clock just struck 9. And 9 on a Sunday night, at this time of the year means just this one thing – BBC One, Sherlock. Watching Sherlock, …
Now this is my resolution, not exactly a New Year resolution, but a resolution that I would like to see myself keep in the coming months and years ahead – I want to be fit, I want to be healthy, I want to be in …
Little B is not a much of a chocolate lover, or of any other sweet thing for that matter. With all the sugary treats that she was forced to consume when she was in my womb, it seems that now she is indifferent to sweet …
As soon as Halloween was done, the shops got rid of all the grey and black stuff they were selling and instead started stocking themselves up with things that were red and green and gold. Suddenly, Christmas was in the air. Many of the items …