Look, its a girl!

This is for all those who have asked me whether my baby is a girl or a boy!!!

Notice the earrings? We got her ears pierced on 22nd oct!

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OOps I missed it again…

Diya – Eleven months..

Diya with her grand-father (our kaaku) during Narayan-Puja
Missed it thanks to the chaos prevailing at home, with wedding preparations going on, pending shopping trips and ‘Pujas’

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Arranged marriage

How much can you make out about a person through his pictures? A lot, if you would have asked Heena. Or perhaps that was the only way she could have sketched the kind of person she was going to marry. She had met him only once with a dozen other relatives for company. He was [...]

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There is something special about weddings –

They give you hope for a new life ahead.
Oh and on a more shallow note, they give you ample opportunities to shop and splurge, let you be what you are not (glamor and all!), beautify the bitching that goes around, justify family politics and also let your mind go numb with the chatter that takes [...]

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I think my mother in law is hiding something from me

Else how would you explain the normal and ordinary dish like ‘aloo-beans’ tasting so heavenly when cooked by her? Secret ingredient??

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Parenting is

God’s way of letting us learn and relearn life with all its nuances…

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Distance

She checked his Orkut account daily. It helped in painting the picture of the new life he had entered. Through the pictures posted, she could construct the place he lived in, meet his new friends, know what new places he had visited and what new dishes he tried. He had requested her not to keep [...]

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