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I held up my favorite white dupatta which had stains of brown and maroon lipstick all over it. It looked as though someone had generously used my lipsticks and then decided that he/she would go without makeup and rubbed it off in a frenzy. I shrieked, “What the hell happened to my dupatta??!”, and the [...]

My daughter and I were having a quiet, pleasant walk to the nearby children’s park one Saturday evening. She was trying to test her hopping skills to see how far she would be able to hop on one leg and I had to keep pace with her, holding her hand. “Amma, how old am I?”“Don’t you know [...]

Just another of those “Nishu incidents” that .happened a couple of years ago, but wanted to share and document so that I relive the moments for many years to come:-)   Nishu had just started school and her life was full of colours(the red, blue, green, brown variety), standing lines, sleeping lines, leaning lines, half circles, full circles [...]

My daughter’s hero worship for King Khan took new dimensions one of the Sundays while we were lazily switching channels. She suddenly spotted Shahrukh in between channels and shrieked so loud that hubby almost dropped the remote! “Get back to that channel where they were showing Shahrukh!!”, she barked. How on earth could someone surf [...]

It was one of those question and answer sessions with my daughter which I so enjoy and dread at the same time! Here goes -Daughter : Where did I come from? Me : From my tummy of courseDaughter : How did I get in there, in the first place?(I’d waited till my 9th before that question had [...]

“I am bored!”, declared my daughter.“How can you possibly be bored when you have such a lot of playthings to play with?”, that was my mum.“why can’t I be bored? I’ve had enough of all those toys and I am booooooredddd”, she re-iterated.“Kids your age should never complain of being bored”, said my mumI knew [...]

It was rather late when my daughter and I reached my cousin’s place where we had planned to stay over. Just as we were opening the gate of her house, her neighbour’s mongrel started barking ferociously. Daughter and me were a little taken aback, but managed to keep our nerves intact while the cousin opened [...]

“Hey sweetheart, we’ll call up ammamma today. You know its Mother’s day today and since ammamma is my mum, I gotta wish her”, I said to my daughter. “What’s mother’s day?”, came the prompt question “Well, its like, um, a birthday of all the mothers in the whole world”“But you already had your birthday the other day”, [...]

My daughter accidentally stumbled upon my sanitary pads while searching for her favorite handkerchief in the wardrobe. She held it high in the air and came out in search of me to ask what it was. I was alarmed to find the pack in her hands and grabbed it from her and asked her where [...]