One thing about being a writer who gets paid to write well is this incessant obsessing about GSP issues. Grammar, spelling, punctuation. When you are getting paid to do something, you have to be perfect – it’s an obligation, and I guess I am so attuned to it that even a few seconds back I [...]
Hi! I couldn’t stop myself from replying to this post as it is very close to my heart: Walking an INdog… At present I walk 3 of them – each one very dissimilar from the other. The questions that I face, right from which breed (commonest), to their age, or if they are neutered, to [...]
I was walking the dogs a couple of evenings back. Aru is usually the only one on leash, the reason being, he would otherwise invariably get into a fight with Poppy. You see, they are both in love with the same lady – but that’s a another story altogether. So I see three teenage boys [...]
Most of us are one of them – the dog walkers, and those of you who think this is a boring job, you can’t even imagine the interestingness that we encounter in our walks everyday. This chronicle remembers some such memorable incidents. People here in India are not at all accustomed to seeing INDogs being [...]
This is a question I urge all dog owners to ask themselves, because if you do not already know the answer, you may be harboring a grave misconception about yourself, and in the process, running the risk of possibly harming the canid kind with the decisions you take. What’s the difference between the two? Yes, [...]
At the beginning of this post, I would like to thank everyone who had stood behind me after Shundari suddenly passed away. I am grateful for the all the phone calls, the emails, and the kind words each of you had shared with me over the last nine days. Personal reasons have kept me away [...]
Several years back I used to work on the creative team of a leading e-greetings site. We were located in India, making cards for US occasions. It involved a lot of guess work, since most of us had never been to the US and our only window to the country and its culture were the [...]
I am writing this in a bit of a huff, so forgive me if I use strong words or foul language. Something very strange happened today. It has been raining incessantly for the last two days. As a result, the dogs have been couped up inside the house for most of the time. This evening, [...]
This week I do not have much to say. But I do have something to show you. It was a rainy Saturday afternoon. People were running around trying to find shelter from the incessant monsoon rain. Some smiled welcoming the relief from the heat; some frowned on Mother Nature for ruining their shopping plans. As [...]