Often unknown to us, the workings of the universe mysteriously resonate with that of our innermost selves. Nina had recently put up on Facebook this beautiful photograph of our daughter Minnie, captured by her first Dance guru, Lubna Marium, during a performance. Taken with her…
“But Rahman sat in the little Calcutta lane, and saw before him the barren mountains of Afghanistan” – Kabuliwallah I am reminded of the Bengali Movie Kabuliwallah, Hemen Gupta’s poignant albeit delightful cinematization of Tagore’s masterpiece of a short story by the same name. In…
Where Minnie did her Grade III (August 2011 to May 2012) in Lao PDR, before moving on to Rishi Valley School in Madanapalli.
The Rishi Valley School is widely regarded as being one of the finest boarding schools in India. Out of every 100 applicants every year, approximately 10 get admission making this also the most selective boarding school in India. For us, Minnie’s admission in Grade IV…
My daughter Minnie is around eight years old when I set myself to the task of introducing her to some serious music – to be precise, Indian Classical Music, Western Classical Music, Ghazals (the songs in Urdu and Persian of love, mostly unrequited) and of…
My daughter Minnie and I share a rather interesting relationship. For some unexplained reason, my sphere of authority does not seem to extend to her. I am more a friend to her than a father. But then even as a friend, the relationship is not…
Photo credit: Oniket Alam In Vientiane, we have a charming, elderly and friendly Finnish couple as neighbors, living in an almost identical wooden Lao style house next to ours. We share a sprawling compound, with only a low height picket fence separating the two gardens….
In grade II when my daughter Minnie (Madhura) was barely six years old, her class teacher introduced Poetry to the class, starting with the basic appreciation of the concept of Rhyme as an important feature of a poem. Being in the International Baccalaureate system, Minnie…
My daughter Minnie (who is now ten) and I are great friends. We treat each other as equals and she, not I, is the first among the two equals. While being rather subdued with her mother who is an impatient and strict disciplinarian, with me…
