I’ve been re-reading the bhagavat gita, gospel of God according to hinduism. Surprisingly, I find truth in it this time. Everytime I read the Gita before, I got frustrated about the impracticality of it, swore not to read it again and brought my faith another level lower. I’ve been trying different translations and interpretations but [...]
They both form a team. When they are together, neither of them care if I’m there or not. Except (Of course, there’s always exceptions) when the son is hungry or has a soiled diaper. That’s when he marched his father up and down the staircase. We have started colour coordinating them both. They wear their [...]
When I was pregnant I started listening to lullabies. It came in handy after child was born and at one point music meant lullaby. I didn’t remember any other kind of music. Even when the baby was asleep or even when he was not even around, I caught myself humming lullabies. Here’s an introduction I [...]
Couple of years back, I used to say I didn’t have time for anything. When somebody asked me how I passed time, I would ask them who stole my time? Where was my 24 hours? I was still searching it. But little did I realize that I was too busy complaining that I was busy. [...]
A mother was managing a group of kids outside the conference room. She told them ‘Don’t make any noise. No shouting. No laughing’. Her son showed all his teeth and imitated laughing. She then said, ‘You can laugh, but no shouting’. He immediately opened his mouth and said ‘Ahh’. And then she said, ‘Please keep quite, can you?’. They [...]
I was talking with a dear old friend of mine about how we speak what we want, that we don’t have and not what we have that we don’t want. He asked if I didn’t think it was a bit crazy. I laughed and replied that I’d rather be crazy and successful than be cool [...]
You know a child is too old to be nursing when… A) he pulls up your shirt when he wants to nurse B) he takes your hand and puts it on your breast, wanting you to do it C) he bites your breast in front of everyone if you don’t do it D) with a [...]
People say things like Touchwood or Knock on wood. I had a hard time understanding it’s meaning. During my days of extreme disbelief and skepticism, I would argue “what’s in a word?”. Definitely I didn’t know the power of spoken words then. I said that the whole concept was wrong. How can a word affect anyone? [...]
A few weeks back, I bought crocs for my son. On the way back, I met a good friend and we shared our shopping experience, and of course, displayed proudly what we had shopped. When she saw the crocs, she told me that 2 years back there was some incident about crocs being dangerous in [...]
