MOTHER HOOD
My life with kids.
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Books and Dreams
A note to readers – Here, I originally intended to simply tell you about two books: David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words. They are both really good, entertaining, yet antipodes for personal accounts on learning a foreign language which is something I have tried to do for many…
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The Making of a Bad Day
Bad days don’t announce themselves usually but wouldn’t it be wonderful if they did? I don’t even need to know the specifics really; I am quite happy dealing with the mystery of it all. I just need to know that it is going to be a bad one so that I can drink a few…
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In the Kitchen: Mango Pops
I am not sure if there is another group of people who are as obsessed with mangoes as me and my fellow Indians. And for good reason because there is little in this world that compares to the taste of a perfectly ripe mango. (Side note: American supermarkets usually don’t carry mangoes grown in India.…
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Full of purpose and still lost
Last summer I was reading Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberget’s The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee when a quote by Jackie Kennedy Onassis really jumped out to me. On parenting and family life, Jackie says: If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do…
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That in which Arjun Cooks Dinner.
One recent evening when my children weren’t being as grateful (and quick) as I would have liked at eating their perfectly good homemade dinner, I challenged them to cook something better. Well, why don’t you cook then, I had snapped back after their umpteenth complain of what I could have done differently. The next day…
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The Antibland Chronicles 