Category: Read about my escapades!

Last time we came to Phuket we brought our daughters with us and we thought then only that our next trip would be with our grandchildren. Unfortunately Siya is living her life at university so was out of the picture just now and Alia is busy training for her Nationals so she couldn’t join us.…

Vivek had gone to London recently to drop his daughter Siya to university and he found he had some time on his hands and started googling his Nanaji, my father and can’t believe that he found this interview with Daddy in the Times of India. Reading it immediately brought tears to my eyes(I am a…

My heart is feeling really heavy whilst writing this. I have just seen my firstborn grandchild Siya….my little baby… my sweetheart leave home for her flight to London where she will be joining the University Of Arts London at Camberwell Arts School. I have very mixed emotions just now… I am extremely excited for her…

I suddenly realised that it has been almost one year since I wrote my blog on this wonderful game Mahjong. In that year I have evolved from the initial hesitant rather scared player to someone who plays with confidence and gay abandon! It is great fun, extremely irritating when you are waiting for one particular…

As we enter the second part of the year we have a whole load of festivals and  family rituals to look forward to. As the auspicious month of Sawan starts we either have in our homes or attend the Rudra Abhishek where we are totally blessed by Shivji. Then we have Sindhara where mothers can…

So… one year later and we are back to Phuket… for the fifth time that is!!! Can’t believe that we celebrated Vinay’s 67th birthday here last year and we celebrated his 68th here too. The only difference is the hotel… but one thing I am sure about is that Phuket has literally become our “home…

I knew that I had seen the first Cocktail film starring Saif Ali Khan and Deepika (I didn’t remember Diana Penty) and I knew that I really enjoyed it so I was very keen to see Cocktail 2. The only thing I remembered was the song Tumhi ho bandhu… call it signs of old age…

10 years ago Abhilasha Sethia took over as President of The Ladies Study Group, Kolkata and  during her tenure she had the vision to start The Book Club and we have never looked back since then. Abhilasha sent out a notice to all the members suggesting this and she got a good response so it…

I actually saw The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Micheal last weekend and Dadi KI Shaadi today but I was a little busy during the week so sorry but you have a three in one together.  So I absolutely loved Devil wears Prada and was most excited when the sequel came. Although I enjoyed the…