Category: Wedding
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Musings On Love
The doorbell rings. I realize with a start that I forgot to open the garage door for the kids. I make coffee while my girls wash up and sit for coffee and snacks. I cut myself a slice of cake and as an afterthought, break off a piece of the yezhu suthu murruku from my…
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#ShaluNalShaadi #Delhi #PaneerMasalaOnBananaLeaf
I am at my desk flipping through pictures from the wedding on my phone. In what can only be termed whirlwind, we flew to Delhi last week to attend a cousins wedding. We returned late Saturday night after 34 hours of travel with three exhausted and sick kids. Ammu on waking Sunday morning declared “I…
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State Of The Union – Sixteen Years
I watch him squint in the twilight, his face looking bare without glasses. “Can you read this?” he holds a tiny molded toy (Tsum Tsum for the initiated). I look at it in turn and give it back. I can barely see anything. “Made in China,” he reads and looks at me expectantly. I stare…
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On marriages, love and excuses
Seated across the office at the children’s school for a small talk on adoption (a whole another post altogether) being a means to build a family, I engaged in conversation with the administrator. It started simply enough with her advising a colleague about dresses on sale at David’s Bridal. “You only wear it once!” she…