Monsoon Magic

The monsoon is playing games with us. It’s hanging around, up there in the grey skies, hanging around and threatening us, promising a deluge of biblical proportions, but sending down just a few drops at a time, a gentle reminder of what it could do, as gentle as a tear drop and no more.
And still, [...]

Invitation to Raj Bhavan

Well, it’s not every day that one gets an invitation to the Governor’s Residence – though, come to think of it, I’m not really sure whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing – so on the rare occasion when one does get such an invitation, one thinks twice about turning it down. In [...]

Almost Multilingual

My mother tells me I was a slow learner. That is, I was slow in learning to read, and for a while they thought I must be dyslexic. To this day, I remember sitting next to my mother in the living room, clutching a book of Noddy and trying to decipher the words and make sense [...]

Tennis

7 a.m. on the tennis court. Sweat in my eyes. I’m gasping for breath, but I don’t realize it. My arm feels heavy; it’s tired of swinging. My legs are tired of running. The crisp “tuk-tuk” of balls hitting the centre of other people’s rackets fills the air, but I am not aware of it. [...]