Ma

My post on May 22nd, 2008
Ma has cancer.
It came as a rude shock to me, and my family. Me, especially because I was all alone in a faraway land, and had only my husband to fall back on. But he had known her for a few hours only, and therefore would not understand what made [...]

Dada

My entry for May 22nd, 2008
My brother is nearly eight years older than me, and this gulf of time was deepened by the most profound differences of character. No two people, bound by blood, tied by upbringing, could be more dissimilar. We had nothing in common except our parents and huge glasses on our noses. [...]

Baba

My entry for May 22nd, 2008:
I hugged my father after very long the other day. And I felt myself feeling, for the first time in a long while, how much I was his, how much we are alike, and like being alike, in that pleasurable, comfortable way that somehow we had lost since, since when? [...]

Am Here Again

I happened to be working for a guy who knows nothing about professional ethics. Like a fool I accepted his offer for a blog and happily wrote a couple of entries in there. But then he scrapped it, and with it I lost posts and comments. So I have chosen not to depend on any [...]

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