Fish Curry & Rice

A sudden crash on the roof woke me up with a start. I sat up in bed and breathed deeply, my hands clutching the sheets on either side of me. I blinked and looked out the window. The rain lashed down, obscuring everything outside like a translucent, blurry blanket. I slid my legs off the …

Horses On the Highway

If you have ever driven through Central India, you already know that lanes mean nothing, lines on the road mean nothing, signals mean nothing and drivers are yet to discover the fact that we drive on the left. Blinkers, low-beam headlights and right of way too remain elusive concepts to these nascar drivers in-waiting. It was …

The Rajasthani Groom

The Rajasthani Groom is a uniquely Indian phenomenon. Nowhere in the world, in any industry does there exist homogenous concentration of so many people who are all exactly the same in every possible way. Every Rajasthani Groom's story starts and ends in exactly the same manner, with one or two minor plot variations and it …

New Beginnings

As I prepare to hang up my boots, seek a more stable future and move on to greener pastures (All puns intended) I find myself compelled to look back at the last 15 odd years in a way that I have never been able to before. A sudden detachment from everything I have ever known has …