My husband’s friend called him up yesterday. His excitement was palpable even on the phone. Their son had been accepted into California Institute of Technology to do his masters in Aeronautical Engineering. They were jubilant.They were going to the US to help their son settle down. As parents they were going to help their son …
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
Majuli A Treasure Island
Once upon a time, long long ago, there was a land through which flowed a hundred rivers. The Dihing, Disang, Dikhow, Subansiri, Kopili to name just a few. The mightiest of them all however, was a mythical male river Luit, commonly known as the Brahmaputra. It flowed down the lofty northern mountains, swift and deep….
Missing You Ma
The sun rose in the eastern sky for the last time in 2018 and my mother’s blue and green love birds that she cared for so dearly chirped and went about their morning business. They say that birds can sense a change in their environment. They were very quiet around the 29th of December. Was…
Holy Cow!
With all this tamasha going on in India about cow crusade and ‘Gau-Raksha’, I am reminded of a funny incident from my childhood related to the ‘gaiya’ or ‘goru’ as we in the Brahmaputra valley call the cow. By the way, ‘goru’ is also used as a harmless abuse in Assam. We use it to…
My Zen Mode
What does “me time” mean to you? do you think me time is important? how often do you give yourself time #MeTime This post is being written for INDISPIRE Edition 230Most of us go through life looking after home and hearth without spending any quality time with ourselves.I think it is very important to sometimes shut everything off…
A Brief Sojourn At Pine Mount School
My eyes were brimming with tears that threatened to roll down my cheeks.Sensing this my sister tightened her grip on my hand.I was 6 years old and my sister was 10.We were in a Meghalaya State Transport bus winding our way up the khasi hills towards our boarding school. Pine Mount School with its red…
Stone Ages and Other Age Issues
People say, “Age is just a number”, “You are as young as you think you are!” But people say all kinds of things! Someone said baby peacocks are born from tears and that GST was the magic wand our country needed. We live in denial most of the time. My close friends call me an…
Twilight musings
The morning alarm rings. I wake up with body ache. Something is not right with the left side of my body. My left hip joint is paining. My left shoulder feels stiff (O My God, I sound like a hypochondriac). In September, my blood test revealed I had hypothyroidism. So now, its hypertension, hypothyroidism, Perimenopause…
Parenting
My father was asked to deliver my sister’s lunch box to school. He was to say “Kaberi Das” and “4th grade” to the nun at the office. When my father reached the school, it transpired that there were two girls called Kaberi Das studying in the 4th grade! My father not having a clue about…
The Lazy Writer 