Recliner Reminiscences

I have to admit things have been spruced up in this hospital. This time it took less than four hours. All the tests were completed within...

Blood Test. "A small prick, Sir." Small? With such a big needle and bigger syringes? 1, 2, 3, 4 and counting. So many syringe-fulls of my...

In the last few days, I have had to visit two separate hospitals in the city. When you have health issues oozing out of different parts...

And can’t forget the interviews. Three or more senior officials in a huge room with the lonely individual being interviewed like having...

There was a Parsi girl in my class whose stage presence was so confident. On inquiry, I learned from her she had taken a course in public...

In the training, there were three distinct groups: the clerical staff, junior officers, and senior officers. During public discussions,...

What was the first public speech I heard? I was lucky in that. It was by our great first Prime Minister of India, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru....

More than five or six years back, the lemon tree was planted. But it never started yielding, and it looked as if it might die. My wife...

How can it? It got only worse. With all those colors, hues, shapes, faces, and smiles all becoming invisible. As the construction of the...

Leaving early and coming back late had become the norm. My wife was in total charge of the garden. The coconut trees yielded very well,...

It is not that I am not attracted to or by nature’s bounties. Pardon the double negative. Lakes calm me down; I want to sit before a...

Bed bugs. Nice creatures. Lift the pillow, they will be there. Lift the bed, and you can see them. Strange bedfellows. The very knowledge...

Cockroaches. Oh God! Such a repelling sight. How do they move so quickly? And so fond of drains and WCs. In Mumbai, their population must...

Have you heard of panchangams? How to describe them? They are a sort of Tamil calendar with time zones defined in the traditional way,...

Have you ever been bothered by tigers? Or lions? Or elephants? Or any other such huge animals? Once on our trip to Yellowstone National...

In one of the earlier posts, I mentioned the relaying of tiles in one of the bathrooms. It looks great and seems to be non-skid. All...

The bathroom saga cannot end so easily. Having talked about soapy eyes and slippery slopes—oh sorry, slippery soaps—I move to other...

To my knowledge, bathing soaps could come in four different shapes: the old popular rectangular ones, the stylish boat shapes, round...

I was always proud of being thin built. Being short and slight, my weight always hovered around the mid-50 kg mark. My elder brother and...

Was it 9:30 when we finally took off? Fully hungry and half asleep, we didn’t care any longer. My wife is a blessed soul. Anytime she...