Life is easy kya karein

Sunday is the day of relaxation with family. Saturday afternoons are about taking your child for a birthday party. If lucky then a lunch sneaked in with hubby at an eatery one always wanted to go to. Saturday nights are for partying with friends. Friday evenings are to watch the joy on your child's face when he/she comes back from school. Monday mornings are heavy to leave home for the working crowd. Monday afternoons are about getting all work done and lazing as you think about the weekend gone. Monday dinners at home are all business as the routine sinks in. Tuesdays are little chilled and then prepare for Wednesdays. Wednesdays and Thursdays, life is at full speed. No time to breathe, no time to stand and stare. Fridays the pace is fast but the mood has taken a steep incline. The work is heavy but the feeling doesn't sink. The shoulders are high and can take on the world. Every day is the same but there is so much significance to th...

There is a movie called Kai Po Che. It has three men in it and as yet they are not the three men in my life. I was telling my child the meaning of the film. I have not seen the film and don't know if it is released. My child feels a film is 'releasing' means it is going away from the theatres. 'Release' as in then the prisoner goes away from the jail or the bird flies away from the cage.Now the six year old feels, the film wallahs are informing you that a new film will go away from the theatres on the releasing date and we must go and watch it before that. I am unable to explain these double entredres of the English language to myself or the child. Mumbai is hardly the kite flying place in India. The children have no clue how many afternoons were spent watching the kites in the sky. They were never lazy afternoons, we were super excited. Screaming "Bhakattaa" was a joy. So in my drive to give the child, all about India, its varied culture and customs, I...

Special 26 is the movie to watch with your Valentine. Director Neeraj Pandey has immense understanding of how to express love in films.The subtle nuances shown are so beautifully picturised. If I say more, its like the review posted by our Indian critics, they give the story away. To make Akshay Kumar act so subtle is no mean feat and then to make him act along with Manoj Bajpayee and Anupam Kher and still turn out good, is laudable. This was a movie where I fell in love with four men Akshay Kumar, Manoj Bajpayee , Anupam Kher and the creator of all these characters Neeraj Pandey. Another loved men are from the film Kahaani Satyuki, the cop with Daak naam Rana and Nawazuddin as the CBI director. The gentleness shown on Akshay s face. His pained eyes  and one finger moving on the balcony railing, asking the heroine not to cry. When he offers to leave the heroine to her house, she turns around and says How much more will you keep leaving me?...

Hav been wanting to tell you about him for a long time. It also means he is on my mind for long. We met through colleagues. As soon as we left from office after tea, we would stop and eat our second breakfast for the day. On one such pre noon snack, my colleague cum friend introduced me to him and his colleague. We all had our dosa and paid for it, talked and laughed and headed to our respective meetings. He had this rotund frame, curly hair, innocent baby face which one can use in ads and he was brown. He came from an MBA college in Chennai. I think it was still Madras at that time. All of them used to get into Citibank from there as that was the step to move to New York or Hongkong which was all students dream at that time, the MBAs with finance variety. The foreign banks used to give them the best Chummeries. Never knew a word like this till I started working. It meant an apartment where two or more colleagues were put up together. In cas...

Everyone has cell phone woes these days. From one, a cynic like me, now owns two cell phones. I am constantly checking both, lest I miss out some revolution of my times. My mom's family is still on BB and the husband has upgraded my life by providing an iphpne as a Diwali gift. Gone are the days of gold and diamonds as Diwali gifts from the spouse. This time from his trip to Miami, he said he is getting me a valentine gift. I was super excited and looking forward to some sexy beachwear which I will pass off in Mumbai, as lounge wear. He got me a small flat box. I said "Darling, please don't buy jewellery from abroad, I can always get the originals copied from Gautam bhai, our family jeweller. I could make out it was not Tiffany's packaging colour and did not look like my favourite Harry Winston.He just smiled and said"'Its your valentine gift, my love." Very carefully I opened the white packaging. And inside was this flat metallic purple box. Purple like...