Recliner Reminiscences

How did my family and dogs always seem to get along so well? Our village deity is ‘Kala Bhairavar,’ whose vahana (vehicle) is a dog....

This is about yesterday. But "yesterday" in the context of when I’m writing this, not necessarily when I’m posting it. Keep that in mind....

These clichéd “castles in the air” or dreamier-than-dreamland thoughts seemed to keep away worries and anxieties. It was like being in a...

Not on earth. Not in the sky. The space I speak of is not outside—it’s the vastness of space within. How big can it be? How much can it...

My wife’s cooking is excellent. I keep stressing that. The funny part is this: sometimes, when she’s roasting or deep frying a dish, the...

We did consider various options. A cook? Then came the questions: Would the cleanliness and neatness in the cooking process or the...

These sorts of goof-ups happen often—or to be precise, on and off. I accidentally deleted the entire piece I had written. No matter how...

I deliberately dragged the previous piece of writing just to give a buildup. Perhaps our two trips to the USA immediately after my...

Here, I speak about my generation. The present one is quite different. Men with jobs that required retirement eventually retired, as...

Having tried, and indeed found useful, both Transcendental Meditation and the other method I mentioned earlier, the importance of those...

I’m sure the train would have taken us up to Madras. From there, how did we travel? I have absolutely no memory. And then, from wherever...

My native village is in Tanjore District. How long my forefathers lived there is something I have no idea about. Which generation...

So, merrily I went, taking videos of everything and anything. The first great memory is of our visit to Vancouver and Victoria. I had...

Before turning 50, I had minimal interaction with cameras, mostly managing a few poorly taken photos that I never cared about. But then,...

During our visit to Kauai for our 50th wedding anniversary, we had one more boat journey to face. This time, it was on a smaller boat on...

In February 2020, before the pandemic made its presence known, we embarked on a trip to Kauai, Hawaii. The island is a tourist paradise...

On our ferry ride to Victoria, we saw even large buses parked in the spacious lower deck. With all that weight, the ferry’s motion was...

I’ve always thought of vehicles on water as boats, with the larger ones being ships. My exposure to fishing trawlers during an...

Another day, another flight—this time from Mumbai to Chennai during the monsoon season. The entire flight was plagued with turbulence....

About half an hour into the flight, one of the air hostesses began distributing something from a trolley. I wondered if it was for...