This hardbound book was a set of two books that were put together at the same time, and go as a bundle - This Book of Photos, and this Book of Love Letters. Both are very special for different reasons -- while this book of photos takes a gorgeous trip down the visual memory lane…
Towards the end of May, they said it was summer. They also said we deserved a break. It was true though, that for 5 months through snow and shine (or winter and spring), M and I had hunkered down and worked pretty hard to land a job, and to complete a very full-time, very intense,…
This famous phrase is credited to Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, who so exclaimed upon visiting Niagara Falls. A fortissimo is a passage in music which is marked to be played very loudly; therefore we can only assume he was referring to the loud rush of the falls themselves. As new immigrants in Canada, situated only…
Our rented home in Seven Bungalows was chosen for two reasons. One, because it was located abutting a metro station, this implied good subsequent connection to the local train since our workplaces were far; and two, because the entire ground floor of the large building was a market where you could buy everything from a…
When the windows of all habitable rooms in your house open on the main spine of the road network that leads to a major beach in less than 3 minutes; and if Ganpati can choose to be taken for Visarjan on any of these 1.5, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 or 11 days, the thought…
Fun fact - M and I were born in the same hospital under the supervision of Dr.Dalal, 4 days apart from each other. We haven't usually made birthdays big, because we have celebrated most of them apart and had no means whatsoever to attach any undue importance to days of birth. However, last summer when…
I've waited a tad bit longer that usual to write of our visit to Baroda in April. It has become a pattern of sorts - of holding on to the precious precious memories of the last trip, keeping it swirling in the deepest of my heart, until a new journey comes close to becoming a…
A Ganesha shrine and the Badaam chowk greet as one steps into the Holkar's Fort
Anybody who's lived through a full, lengthy Canadian winter is parched to see colors other than the gray-whites of frost, storm, and cloudiness, and wistfully longs a pleasant outdoor walk without being hit by blasts of frigid breeze. I don't dislike the winter. Winter is charming for a few, but by the time one gets…
At the beginning of the pandemic last year, a certain anticaste artist/writer on Instagram, decided to curate hand-written love letters/notes in any and all languages, exchanged between inter-caste couples. Anonymous letters were accepted too, so I sent some of my letters to M and vice versa to be published on her profile, which was a…
After every holiday together, or one of our trips back home, they always made that familiar request - "Ye print karwake dena humko agli baar". Naana of course, has always been a collector - his books and magazines overflow the trunks, racks, shelves, cupboards of the library on the terrace, with the more recent additions…
Hampi had been on my list for the longest time now, and then one day, it became more specifically Shanthi Guest House at Hampi when someone who had stayed there spoke of it so poetically that I created this picture of it in my head -- one arrived into this part of the town only…
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