Seems like the end of winters here. It poured through the night, but couldn’t get cold enough to transform to white. And if that isn’t proof enough, the intensity with which the sun dazzles is. It’s brilliant and if you stand at a spot for too long, merciless. Thankfully, it’s much friendlier if you move. And so, I befriended our planet’s star and went for a mid-afternoon walk. The rain had shampoo-washed the landscape, the […]
It’s been an amazing day today! After an endless wait for at least one snow-fall this season, most of us had finally given up hope. (Secretly, I hadn’t) Yesterday being Basant Panchami though–the harbinger of spring– kind of nailed the final ominous plank into any such childish, wishful whims of mine. However, last evening the weather people hinted at the contrary and yet again kindled a glimmer in my poor heart. And even though the […]
I had never run a home-stay before. I was naive at how things would unfold in reality. I was as much a novice, at how it would unfold in the virtual world—read, a website/ a Face Book page. All I did was, take Henry David Thoreau’s advice literally—where he says, “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under […]
I’ve been fond of reading since I was very young. Scents from thin sheets of fragile paper from books older than my grandfather, were both comforting and exciting (why don’t they make perfumes like that?). I was notorious for being engrossed in at least a book (if not 2) at any given point in my childhood—to the extent that once enticed…externals such as weather, lack of light, hunger, a visit to the loo, even dreaded […]
It’s been an amazing day today! After an endless wait for at least one snow-fall this season, most of us had finally given up hope. (Secretly, I hadn’t) Yesterday being Basant Panchami though–the harbinger of spring– kind of nailed the final ominous plank into any such childish, wishful whims of mine. However, last evening the weather people hinted at the contrary and yet again kindled a glimmer in my poor heart. And even though the […]