bbq’s and birthdays…

Last year, November 27 was a strange strange time. I hadn’t said yes to k so the question hung heavy in the air. We were suspended in that odd, zingy place where you aren’t quite friends anymore, but you aren’t more either.At midnight we were at Hussy’s where we cut a piece of mithai and [...]

two to tango

as the wedding finally turns into a marriage, and I’m learning all those tiny little things about k that I said “yes” to so clearly and confidently, thinking I knew him so well at that time. Looking back, I wonder who I married compared to what I know of him today. Some wise old lady [...]

She’s Back!!

It’s a fantastic high to discover the my reading time was only messed up because of adjustments to lifestyle after marriage ( and lack of a book good enough to extricate me form my real world) and that I can still get engrossed in a book to the point of the world crashing around me, [...]

The Night Spent at Momma’s- Yet Another Much Awaited Moment in Married Life.

Right before I was married, lots of already married friends told me about the first night spent back at mom’s house and how familiarly unfamiliar it felt. They mentioned how much more appreciated they felt by the family, especially previously squabbling siblings and how the time spent together was “perfect in being short”. Austen would [...]

blurry good times…

As it is the wedding passes by so fast that one doesn’t get round to feeling much. Most emotions are in some kind of a radial blur tool and half the time you are ecstatically happy and the other half ferociously moody. Later on, many details crystallize with the help of photographs and home videos [...]

The Younger Woman

Maybe it’s the “gora chamra” like daddo says…or his pleasant smiling face like my mother insists, or perhaps aafi simply knows a good man when she sees one; whatever the reason, my tiny little niece is doing her best to lay on the charms, thick.
Whether it’s as subtle as coyly shy smiles and glances [...]

Master of My Own Fate.

A decade of eids spent in the back seat of my father’s car with my sisters, fighting over the music choices and I am finally the master of my own destiny. Or atleast the planner of my own eid route. I re-realized a lot of things about the relationships we keep with people. How little [...]

a new addition

this eid, we have a new addition to our room. we bought our first plant and he has lovingly been christened edouard. the nursery wala assured us hes a foreign type and that he will not die on us or wither away. eid is all about acceptance and thankfulness. so we accept edouard and are [...]