Recliner Reminiscences

When my wife and I were quite young, with our elder son just 18 months old, I was posted to a rural area. My only experience of village...

I completely forgot to mention a sudden fad that emerged in the late 80s—a particular outfit for men called the “Safari Suit.” It was...

The tailoring outfit I went to was well-known, but would they agree to alter the clothes a second time? That was my big question....

We were in the midst of the pandemic when I somehow managed to get the clothes stitched. We had just applied for the renewal of our visa...

I left those shorts behind in the USA. What were the chances of me wearing them in Chennai, where swimming pools are not conveniently...

The final leg of my career was in Chennai, where I continued to offend people’s fashion sensibilities with my tucking-in style. By this...

After one particular visit, I never wore those shorts again during that trip to the USA. However, having spent money on them—though it...

I had seriously considered writing about this later, but as a corollary to my previous reflections on Shopping Hopping, this topic seemed...

By our third visit to the USA, nearly five years later—time spent mostly navigating the challenging task of finding a bride for my second...

Slowly and surely, I was seeing less and less of what was on display, and my ability to enjoy the sights was fading. But that was never...

And that’s how we found ourselves one day at Costco. It wasn’t just a store or a supermarket—it felt like an entire city. The place was...

Moving your family to a completely new place involves many sacrifices—adapting to a different language, adjusting to cultural shifts,...

Just before the wedding, having been promoted to an “officer’s” category with a slightly thicker wallet and my brother having been in the...

A year later, or perhaps a little more, the first taste of a bonus sweetened my financial palate—more than a month’s salary! During the...

The frustrating part was that he would often dip into my already limited wardrobe—if you could even call it that—and use my clothes...

The first time I wore spectacles was an eerie, unsettling experience. Going from low vision to near-normal vision was a challenge; my...

After the construction of our new house, we hired a professional to plan the layout of our garden and terrace garden. The architect was...

And then disaster struck in the form of my retinal detachment. For the next couple of months, we were extremely busy visiting hospitals,...

In South India, it’s common to see families feeding crows in the morning, and we did the same. My wife made it her daily duty and...

Back in the late 1950s, we got what was then known as an "Air Gun"—a toy gun with small bullets. It was meant for shooting at targets...