I was trying to chat with my niece on the Internet. As I struggled to trace and strike the right alphabet keys to communicate with her, irritated at my miserably slow speed , my niece wrote, “Bua, so gaye kya?”(Aunt, have you gone off to sleep?) No, I had not dozed off. In fact, despite my best effort, I was not able to match up with her speed. I must admit I was painfully slow.
Emotionally Yours
My father-in-law’s room was like a big store house with piles of news papers, magazines, letters, pamphlets which no body dared disturb. There was an old record player Continue reading “Emotionally Yours”
The senior citizen dilemma
As the Railway Minister Ms Mamta Bannerjee announced proudly in Rail budget 2011-12 that women will now be eligible for senior citizen ticket concession at the age of 58, memory of an interesting episode flashed across my mind. My paternal uncle and aunt were travelling from Patna to Jalandhar by train. My uncle availed senior citizen concession for himself to which he was duly entitled, but he bought a concessional ticket for my aunt also who must have been in her late 50s but hardly looked her age. Continue reading “The senior citizen dilemma”
Loo Excursion
From a peep into the bathroom, to intrusion in the bed room and now making inroads into the toilet showing explicit ‘loo scenes’, Bollywood movies have come a long way. If the success of Aamir khan’s latest production is any thing to go by, we really have matured as an audience. Look, what a mature audience we are! We have made Delhi Belly, a movie in which toilet occupies the centre stage, a ‘farting’ success. Continue reading “Loo Excursion”
Ageing Blues
“Middle age starts at three and five 35”, this innocent prefix announced with the tambola number came as a bolt from the blue. At a time when I was crossing over to the other side of 30, the knowledge of the fact that I was not young any longer gave shivers down my spine. Continue reading “Ageing Blues”
