Look What I Made!
Saturday at Indu’s Excellent Tuition Centre is reserved for making a beautiful mess using coloured paper, sparkles, crayons, glue,...
How to Purchase a Slum Home
Getting on the property ladder in Saki Naka The Marwah side of the slum is currently a hive of building activity. Porous rust-coloured...
Intensive Care
Twelve-year-old Sohel, and Dinesh, who is about ten, walked ahead of us, their wiry arms flailing and gesturing wildly. They smacked each...
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the Humorous moments of 2015
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the Humorous moments of 2015 in no particular order because there is no order in India and I have come to...
Christmas in Saki Naka
Christmas is Christmas whether you're in the concrete jungle of Mumbai battling plus 30 temperatures and eating a samosa, or watching the...
It Seemed a Good Idea
A few weeks ago I had a dream about kids underwater that morphed to the nightmare stage when the children couldn’t be located. When the...
Decision Pending - the pleasure and pain of paying school fees
We stopped abruptly when Indu spotted the cobbler’s stall. Every year we head down this dust bin of a road, jammed into the back of an...
Gudiya’s Home Birth
Indu tapped on the scratched wood door with the flat of her hand to herald our arrival. We didn’t stand in the laneway longer than a few...
Immersed in Mumbai
Nikita, Indu, Yogita and friend celebrating Ganpati. It’s a dark and stormy night - really dark, until the lightening brightened the sky...
Worlds Away from Here
We pushed the heavy door open and stepped inside the cool comfort of the cavernous bookstore located in our city that is green with...
