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- Yours Affectionately
After I wrote Papa Yaar yesterday, I felt the post was so woefully inadequate in capturing the extraordinariness of Appa or even his ordinariness for that matter. Also, I barely touched upon the ebb and flow of our evolving relationship over four decades. I guess no amount of writing will… Read more: Yours Affectionately - Papa Yaar
Just finished watching this show by Zakir Khan streaming on Netflix: At once hilarious, heartwarming and tear-jerking, each line of this show resonates with your own childhood experience and relationship with your father. With great wit and insight, Zakir Khan manages to capture universal truths about (Indian) fathers through the… Read more: Papa Yaar - The Midnight Library
Another book suggested by a friend. A novel this time. As usual, spoilers ahead. The story is simple: an unhappy young woman tries to end her life and finds herself in an in-between space — not quite alive or dead. She is in a library of infinite books, and her… Read more: The Midnight Library - The Courage to be Disliked
When I chanced upon this title a few weeks ago, my first response was: Ha! Why do I need that? Not the courage part, which one can always use more of, but the rest of it, which came so easily to me already! As an INFJ, having lived for 50+… Read more: The Courage to be Disliked - Why Men Suffer in Silence?
This morning, I visited a (neighbor)hood cafe Paassh, which came highly recommended by a friend living in another city, who ironically is often my source for what happens in Bombay! She would be happy to know I finally stepped out of my cave after the crazy rains of last week… Read more: Why Men Suffer in Silence?