This is the first year since Kavya entered our kahani that we’ve been at home in our own flat. For the past few years, we’ve spent Christmas and New Year’s in California with my parents. This year, we went on…
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Our Last Christmas As A Trio in Atlantic City!
It’s been a few years since we’ve stayed on our home turf for Christmas. Last year, we were in California visiting my parents and a heap of cousins from India, who insisted on doing every tradition we knew about Christmas….
On Christmas Traditions: Lying To Our 3-year-old About Santa Claus and Other Rules of Being a Good Parent
No matter what part of the world we are in, whether we’re “home,” or away, Christmas is one of our favorite times of the year because of the different traditions involved, including our evolving ones. For Kavya’s first Christmas, I…
The Paranoid Traveller’s Data Backup Strategy
A few days after me and Sona returned from our six month honeymoon to India in 2007, our hard drive – a bulky Maxtor 350GB – failed, making that dreaded click of death. Data recovery experts quoted prices of $1500, which…
Eat This Page: British Blueberry Lemon Scones, Innit.
Scones. It couldn’t be anything else this morning. I wake up to the sounds of pitter patter on the air-conditioner, whose arse hangs outside the window. The first definitive indication that it’s raining. Most people would grumble because of rain…
Kiboshing Greece: How Having Kids Changes Travel
In 2009, about two years after our big India adventure, Navdeep and I had settled into a groove. We were both busy with work — him teaching English and creative writing at local universities, and I freelancing for places like…