First Class!

We had a great deal of uncalled-for excitement at home on Tuesday evening. We were to meet a friend for dinner at 8.30. At 7.30, I took out the train tickets for our forthcoming Ranthambor trip, with the aim of sending the exact details to my esteemed parents, who are accompanying us on the trip. [...]

When I Grow Up, I Will Be a… Technical Writer

So as you all know, now that I am – for better or for worse – “grown up”, I am a writer. A Technical Writer, to be sure, which is only half a writer (at best), but for whatever it’s worth, I’m a “writer” by profession.
I would not say this is the profession I [...]

The Case of the Smoking Hard Disk

The trouble with digital photography is that you get digital photographs. Digital photographs require digital storage. And, for any avid amateur photographer who can’t tell good from bad from positively ugly, and who therefore indiscriminately refuses to delete any photograph, even those resulting from an accidental click of the shutter, it requires an abundance of [...]

Fighting Shyness

Who me? Shy? Ummm… well… Ok.
Yes, I am shy. Extremely shy, in fact.
Do I hear startled, unbelieving gasps? Yes, this is one of my best-kept secrets. I’ve been told before that I do quite a credible job of covering it up. You see, cover-up is one of the best defenses against shyness… with a successful [...]

29 Questions

This is one of those questionnaires that periodically does the rounds of the Internet.  Of course, you are supposed to send it to so many people and they are supposed to send it back, but I’m short-circuiting the process by blogging it. If you read this, please do likewise.
This was sent to me by Christina, [...]

A Stranger in my Bed

Ok, now that I’ve got your undivided attention, here’s the complete story.
To start with, 4 a.m. is not the best time of night to wake me up. That’s just what Amit did night before last, and rudely at that, by turning on the overhead light. I was too sleepy to do anything more than mumble [...]

Kabini Revisited

At 7.30 in the morning, the car was fully loaded with a battle-scarred backpack, several cameras, a tripod you could probably murder an angry elephant with, a tankful of petrol and the two of us, grinning cheerfully despite it all.
 
Kabini beckoned. We had been twice before, but it beckoned nevertheless. Greenery, wildlife, and good food [...]