A farmer used to say to his son when he was small: “When you reach the age of 15, I...

This sleeping ginger tabby must not have heard of the idiom “Cat on a hot tin roof”. Which describes those...

Every morning, around 10.30, she used to shatter the tranquility of the neighbourhood with her piercing cry: “Batlibai! Batlibaieyeah!” Sitting...

This cart of Lychees stopped me in my tracks. Literally. They are in season. And there it was. The classic...

A friend inherited this vintage German-made Pfaff 30 sewing machine from an elderly aunt who passed away some time ago....

I get inquisitive Crows on my window all the time. And squabbly Pigeons. Also energetic, chirping Sparrows. Sometimes, a raucous...

With the monsoon fast approaching, repair work has begun in my building. Masonry on the walls and stairwell has cracked...

The story goes that Nazim Hikmat, the great Turkish poet, once asked his friend Abidin Dino, a famous artist and...

I found him lying on the paved pathway of my housing society. On his back in dappled sunlight. Tiny arms...