Coo ooo ooo, Coo ooo ooo, Coo ooo ooo, Coo ooo ooo – each rising an octave higher, the screechy koel rouses me from a sweaty, restless slumber. Awash with light at 5 a.m.,my room is bright, the sun already high. I stretch out like a lazy cat, reluctantly to waken to another hot summer day. Rubbing sleep from my eyes, I look out on the lawn outside, the patchy green amid dusty trees. The sun high in a pale…
February which is decidedly the shortest month in the year has gone by really fast. But March which has only 3 days more, has been agonisingly slow for me. I would say it has literally crawled into April. Part of the reason has been the renovation work at home that began halfway through February, all through March and now halfway April as well. The other part is largely the little things that have sent me in a tizz. For March…
I celebrated the coming of spring with Chinese dragons and lions.
Life has a funny way of coming to the rescue. I was wondering what photo to put up this week when Facebook sent me this one from my past . Last year at this time I was at Schiphol airport waiting to catch my connecting flight to Newark . Time has marched on since then and Ms Papaya has come home to be with me ! I was actually stunned seeing the man behind the clock face as I never…
This year Mumbai has experienced a different kind of Winter