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Anita Nair

The lockless door

On the day prior to Ayudha puja, most Hindu homes get a proper do-over. In my parents home, anything that resembled a gadget and remotely functioned as a device wasn’t ever spared.

The grass eating tiger

For me though the enchantment of the Sunday didn’t end with the Biriyani. Thereafter would be the Sunday movie

The long, lazy Sunday morning read

One of the greatest pleasures of my Sunday is the waking up at the crack of dawn. Perhaps it is sheer perversity but knowing that I have nowhere to go, nothing to do induces a ceratin pleasure in lying in and reading.

Spirited away

Nineteen years ago, when I first came to live in the Cantonment area of Bangalore, Thom’s Café was a little store on Wheeler Road which was part bakery, part grocery and part liquor store wreathed in shadows and middleclass-dom.

Virgin lands call

In the last five years, the roads have become even more non-existent. Where trees stood, little concrete boxes have mushroomed. Each one a little shop now

The hand of bananas

The other day in the process of reviewing one of my books, a literary critic brought to my and the world’s notice that the flavours of my happiness were many - 'my glory hallelujah husband, my clever son, funny dog and wrinkle free parents.

What is it about eggs?

The hen strutted across the yard purposefully. Then it leapt onto a stack of firewood and pretended to peer at the sky and suddenly with a manic squawck, it flapped its wings and fled into the bushes...My brother and I looked at each other in horror and...

Crisp bacon and hot house peaches

It is one of those rare coincidences that actually allow me to relish in what’s advocated by doctors, dieticians, generals and chefs: the hearty breakfast.
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