The Sun salutation prayers, Day Two. — I was thinking of Kerala Taylor’s story about how, when we meet someone in their home on an AirBnB visit, we’re worried about way different things than when we meet them online. For example, we may not need them to be Republican or Democrat, support LGBTQIA or not, or be…

This is hot off the presses and happening as we speak! The Sun salutation like none other. — Day One, yesterday, was the Bottle-Gourd and Rice day, when pink salt and ghee season the veggie and rice with split chickpea lentil gravy.

No handbags for Gayatri. — My college-going daughter, Gayatri, couldn’t make it home for Diwali this year. She traveled from her dorm to her uncle’s home in Delhi for the festival. Gayatri carried all her pairs of jeans and trousers to her uncle’s home. She found a tailor near there and prevailed upon the tailor…

“… and I’m happy I can turn off my brain and run behind Papa.” — My teenage daughter at IGI Airport, New Delhi — My husband left for vacation three days before our 15-year-old daughter, Sivakami, and I flew out to join him. On the way out, Sivakami and I were flying out of the five-departure-gate Ranchi airport. Sivakami was proactive in keeping her Aadhar card ready, her boarding pass in hand and her…

A New Delhi trip with ride prices, messy events and messier feelings. Three tips from a fit female I met, and great new jackets and shoes. — For the nine-day Navratri festival in October, my husband and I visited our daughter in New Delhi. She sublets an apartment there and we foisted ourselves upon her under the guise of “checking out if she was safe there.” In reality, I have no clue really, if anyone is safe…

🇮🇳 My country India and the 🇬🇧 UK have the same biscuits! — My dad was eating a Monaco biscuit when he said, ‘You know, Roopa, back in ‘83 when I was in the UK, we had biscuits for meetings. They would keep a tray of pre-packaged biscuits of all kinds – Monaco, Krackjack, Bourbon, Thin Arrowroot, GoodDay, JimJam, and Cream Cracker –…

Umm…never? — I went to pick up my 15-year-old daughter from school yesterday. She’s a smart and feisty kid. She gets along well with a good cross-section of her classmates and I’m assuming that her opinion is that of the class. I don’t usually do the school run. My daughter’s class had…

I did, but do kids nowadays skin their knees, ever? — I was trying on some knee-length dresses before I met a friend last month. I sent the picture to my trainer for a second opinion. My trainer advised me to wear leggings under the dress. She said I hadn’t “prepared my knees” for a short dress. My knees are scarred…

The headline that made me stop shopping at supermarkets — Buy-one-get-one-free! This was the attraction that made me over-purchase any amount of groceries and snacks at supermarkets. It was only when I read the above headline in a local newspaper that I started looking more closely at what happens to the second, “free” container.