Ever since the first of April, I have been getting up slightly earlier than usual to beat the heat and go for a walk. One fine day my next door neighbour and I decided to walk for an hour between six to seven every morning.
Section: Bangalore | Monday, May 9, 2011 13:12 IST
It was a friend’s birthday. After a certain age, buying friends’ birthday gifts demand much pondering and worrying.
Section: Mumbai | Friday, April 22, 2011 4:17 IST
It is a medley of impressions. A handpicked range of stimulations... And as I write, in the background are these voices that sing, talk and declaim.
Section: Lifestyle | Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:01 IST
Most mornings I try and wake early so that I can get some writing done before the rest of the day grabs me in its coils of incessant demands.
Section: Mumbai | Friday, April 8, 2011 4:45 IST
I find the process of cooking robs me of my appetite. Somewhere it is as if all the cutting and chopping, the measuring and weighing, the stirring and tasting takes away the very flavour of the dish that made me want to cook in the first place.
Section: Mumbai | Friday, April 1, 2011 2:12 IST
Sometimes old books bring with them a wealth of this and that — a ticket stub, a recipe, a card and quite often a letter that was perhaps used as a bookmark.
Section: Mumbai | Friday, March 18, 2011 1:20 IST
Despite an earlier life as an advertising person, I still succumb to the lure of the shelf throw and will pause to examine the book if the jacket is intriguing enough.
Section: Lifestyle | Friday, March 11, 2011 2:06 IST
I have always been a reluctant gym goer. My home is located near a pool and a gym. While on most days I make the time to swim, I have seldom entered the gym.
Section: Speak Up | Friday, March 4, 2011 0:03 IST
I have been on the highway for the last seventy-two hours. A friend and I drove into the horizon one afternoon.
Section: Lifestyle | Monday, February 28, 2011 13:18 IST
February ushers in a strange excitement of suddenly wanting to grapple with life and engage with it…an urge to put aside the desire to huddle under blankets and winter sluggishness and get on with things.
Section: Speak Up | Friday, February 11, 2011 2:30 IST
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