On Visiting Nani’s Home from Miles Away

Reflecting on the passing away of the last of my grandparents.

Sweet Memories

1. The earliest memories we have of eating ice cream as a celebration of nothingness was back in Rae Bareli, a rustic little city of Uttar Pradesh. Kamal was a local ice cream manufacturer and distributor. They had a number of hand-drawn carts circling in the city’s streets, ringing bells to herald their arrival, and…

THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING COCONUT

“Where has it vanished away?” I exclaimed in all bewilderment. “It wasn’t there at all in the first place!” My mother tried to reason and calm me down. “It was! I saw it! I saw it for real!” “Oh, you must have mistaken a brinjal for it!” “What!” I thought, “Is that even possible? Did…

THE UNPLANNED PLANS

“You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. No plan at all. You know why? Because life cannot be planned… You cannot go wrong with no plans.” – A dialogue from the movie ‘Parasite‘   Papa has mostly been an absentee father for most of the time we were growing up. He was…