While most of my friends know by now about my Miss India stint, not many know about the fact that I had also taken part in the Miss Asia Pacific pageant in 1992. It was almost by default actually as I had taken part in the Miss Bombay contest then organised by Femina, the same… {Read More}
Lonavala
Just the name conjures up a plethora of memories for me. Every time I visit Mumbai, I do make it a point of visiting my favourite weekend destination – Lonavala. This is a small hill station located in the Pune district of Maharashtra, Western India. It used to be a ‘real’ hill station once upon… {Read More}
So nice to be back home but…
I am here now finally…after months of waiting…marking off the calendar….counting the days with my sons…we are finally back home in Mumbai, India for our summer holidays. Today is day 2….40 days more to go…and now that I am here…away from my very busy, very planned life I wonder what am I going to do… {Read More}
Good morning world, its 6 o’clock
Its 6:00 o’clock on a Sunday morning and here I am sitting at the computer talking to you. Something woke me up, a dream, quite hazy and quite odd. I saw my grandfather …I also saw my Julie. I was under these thick grape vines trying to carry Julie in one hand and my son… {Read More}
Birthday parties
As I sit in the bus going for one more birthday party I can’t help thinking about my elder son’s first birthday bash that we organised in the Yacht Club, Mumbai. It was the single most important event to occupy my mind months before the actual party. How do we celebrate it– on a big… {Read More}
Julie – end of a life, end of a ”tradition”
My English cocker spaniel, Julie a.k.a. Juliet breathed her last today- 31st May 2012. She passed away peacefully in my mother’s house in Mumbai where she had been living since the last 12 years of her life. She died in my mother’s arms, who had been her sole carer after I moved out of India…. {Read More}
Changing priorities
What I considered crucial to my life a decade ago has just faded away somewhere. Often I ask myself do I know who I am or what I want — the answer is always a “Sure I do” but that answer gets lost amongst the ifs and buts of life. When I was seven, my… {Read More}
