Twins at Home!

I have never noticed a city I visited less than I noticed Pondicherry on this trip. I knew my way to the orphanage, and that was all. I even had to have the beach pointed out to me along the way, I was that preoccupied.
Meeting the twins at the orphanage, I could not say there [...]

Yes, Twins!

We got our babies! We drove back from Pondicherry yesterday afternoon. It was all relatively smooth sailing, medical tests were all clear and the girls took to us without too much fuss. They’re sleeping for the moment, but it’s time I went and woke them up for dinner. I don’t think I’m going to be [...]

Service? What’s That?

Huh! It’s raining again. There’s no telling about the weather in Bangalore, I can assure you. Today, after one full week of heavy, grey skies every day, we woke to a bright, clear sky and warm, welcome sunshine. The few puffy white clouds on the horizon didn’t look like trouble. But it’s just after 2 [...]

Unemployed and Impatient

Two days of unemployment, and the condition doesn’t so far seem very different from the past two years of employment. Correction, the condition hasn’t been very different, I should say, considering I had about the same volume of work then as I do now.
Leaving office wasn’t too much of an ordeal. Surprisingly, one team that [...]

Twins? TWINS?!

There’s no point going on about it, but the fact remains that every time we see kids - and we see kids every day, every where, damn it! - I think of how nice it would be to have our own, and I wonder when it’s ever going to happen and whether it’s ever going [...]

Egypt Beckons

It’s true that it is still a good seven weeks away, but at least it’s on the horizon – our next vacation, in Egypt.

Of course, there’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip as the saying goes, and the slip that is immediately visible is that my dear husband is planning [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I finally finished reading the last of the Harry Potters. Warning: Plenty of spoilers ahead, and, moreover, if you’ve not read the Deathly Hallows, what follows will probably not make any sense at all.

(By the way, does anybody else think that Deathly Hallows was not the most suitable or the most exciting title [...]

Washed or Unwashed?

The other day, my cook brought me beef biryani. Yes, we eat beef. Do I hear gasps of horror? Well, anyway. She does bring us biryani from time to time, but she seems to be bringing it more often the longer she works with us. If she keeps it up at this rate, one day [...]