Continued from here . Yes, a telephone conversation happened. Yes, a meeting happened soon after. You didn't expect anything else after all the trials and tribulations up until that point, did you? The question is, was it worth it? Had that lone encounter from so long ago taken on a significance com...

We heard the cow mooing angrily and galloping down the dusty path long before we saw it. A hysterical female voice shrieked at us to get out of the way. We flung our heads around wildly, trying to locate where the cow was coming from and ran helter-skelter away from the dust cloud. We were a gaggle ...

But what did we expect? Did we really expect their lives to be changed? For good or for worse? Are they worse off for having caught a glimpse, however fleeting, of the Other Side? I've been feeling terrible ever since I saw photographs of Azhar , one of the younger actors in Slumdog, being smacked a...

It is one of those conundrums of parenthood. Nourishing the body could not get any easier. Nutritional science and availability of healthful food have both improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years, taking the guesswork out of figuring out what is good or bad for growing bodies. Yes, it r...

When I first obtained the Moulin Rouge CD I listened to this one song, La Complainte de la Butte, so much that I feared for the life of the CD. While I caught and understood some phrases, the song as a whole remained foreign. But my heart raced ahead, deriving meanings my head could not. At times th...

Continued from here . Days turned into weeks as She debated what to do. Should She try to reach Him, somehow? How could she reach Him? She had neither a telephone number nor an address. She did not know where He worked. And days turned into weeks as He debated what to do. Should He try going back to...

Friday night saw us scrambling to make last-minute dinner plans with friends, a lovely couple. The two men have known each other for ages and we've all known each other for more than a few years. Still (or perhaps because of it?) there was nary a lull in the conversation. We parted reluctantly, maki...

Image source: The Silk Road Project The Silk Road. Traders on camels, or on horseback maybe. Grimy and exhausted from weeks of riding on winding, mountainous, godforsaken roads. Dusty, crowded market streets. A crescendo of voices bargaining in loud voices in quaint tongues. The aroma of exotic spic...

My eight-year-old thinks Phelps is the coolest dude ever to walk the earth. With a devotion hitherto only accorded to cricket, soccer and football, he devoured the swim events at the Beijing Olympics this past summer. All his other activities were planned around the swim event schedules. The timing ...

I went looking for my copy of Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, which I'd bought nearly 15 years ago. I knew it was in pretty bad shape - I'd lent it to a colleague who'd returned it with a broken spine. I thumbed through the books on the shelves and came upon a book with a torn hinge and s...