Me? Hard Working? Of Course!

As part of the adoption paperwork, we each have to fill up a long and detailed questionnaire that deals with all things from your childhood and upbringing, to your marriage, to your values, accomplishments etc. Amit and I answered our questionnaires separately (mine was ten pages long!) and then read each others’ yesterday night. In [...]

Almost Multilingual - 2

I had noticed this six months ago when I was yet again submerged in a sea of Bengali, during a trip to Calcutta to meet Amit’s family.

By “this” I mean, I noticed that my language skills in Bengali had suddenly improved in something like a quantum leap. I still made mistakes, but at times [...]

Adoption

It’s a girl!

Those words and the feelings that normally accompany them are going to be something I and Amit will never experience: we found out a few months ago that the particular cause of our infertility has no treatment other than “aided reproduction”. After thinking it over, we decided that adoption is the only option [...]

Two-wheelers Old and New

Ok, I know I’ve blogged about my “new” bike quite often already, but somehow I just can’t get enough of it. It’s just crossed its one-and-a-half year non-birthday, and at over 5500 km, it has averaged a little more than 10 km per day. Every day. I just got it serviced and tanked up and [...]

Crow’s Nest

No, I’m not referring to my hair.
Since it’s my work from home day, I’ve been whiling away my lunch hour trying to shoot the crows at their nest. I haven’t managed to get a shot of the two of them together, but I did manage to get one of what I presume is the female [...]

Bird-watching

Has anyone else noticed – those of you who live in Bangalore, I mean – that there seem to be more birds around the city, over the last few months?

Actually, to be precise, I’m not sure whether there are more birds around, or whether whatever few birds there are, are more audible. But I [...]

Deutsch Lernen - Again!

It was like being thrown into a bucket of cold water. I walked into the room and was greeted by a flood of German. It passed over my head just as smoothly as water too – in all, I comprehended not a single word in the first five minutes.
For the next two hours, I concentrated [...]