Further to my previous post and my meeting with the Principal, Siddharth fell sick and did not attend school for the last week. He resumed this Monday and still has a cough and cold, albeit subsiding. I wrote an email to the Principal yesterday and there was prompt action today. To cut a long story … Read More →
My son had a very strange experience and his first taste of discrimination in school day before yesterday. He came home and told me that some boys had beaten him in school. I thought it must be one of the tiffs that children normally get into. He was in tears but he becomes teary-eyed real … Read More →
Every year, we totter on the brink of power crisis in this country. We start looking to the heavens to open up and fill our reservoirs to ensure a good power and water supply to its citizens. The rain Gods have not been relenting this far and look at the crisis we have gotten ourselves … Read More →
I was thinking that now that Gautam has begun school, I’d have much more time on my hands. Surprisingly, that is not so! I have to wake up latest by 6 everyday. I have 3 tiffins to pack for my three boys ;). Gurdev can eat in his office canteen on those days when I … Read More →
Nandan Nilekani – the co-founder of one of the biggest Indian IT companies Infosys has resigned from the company to take up a rank of a cabinet minister in the government. He is heading the UIC (Unique Identification Card) scheme. This is meant to provide a National foolproof biometric Identity card to each and every … Read More →
Since the controversy of ill treatment of Indian students in Australia has broken out, one argument which has been heard in many forums is how India as a country is very racist to its own people and the two ugliest dimensions of it manifest as the caste system and stereotyping of individuals according to their … Read More →
Today is the 100th Anniversary of Father’s Day and though I feel that most of these days are just commercial gimmicks meant to boost the sales of the greeting card companies, I like this one. I think fathers are very special. They are not as overt in showing their love as moms are. And, they … Read More →
The media circus continues about the failure of the Indian cricket team in T20 WC. Get on with it and move to other things. This need to unnecessarily prolong such trivial things is a feature of late in the Indian media. People succeed and fail, teams succeed and fail. It is surely not an issue … Read More →
He has started having a very pronounced and funny pout these days.As soon he steps out of the school ( I go to pick him up), he says school was good even before I can ask him :).His mood swings are maddening and for no reason he starts howling or feeling moody.He speaks in that … Read More →
Luckily for us, we stayed up only till midnight to watch the England vs. India game of the T20 WC. With England scoring just 153, we went to sleep thinking that India will do it comfortably. At least, our sleep was not ruined :). In the morning, shock of shocks India lost by 3 runs … Read More →