Mumbai : my city – Page 51 – Twenty- five Seven

November 8, 2014

Help!

Household help One of the joys of living in India is the help one can get albeit at a price (I will get into that in another post). People are amazed at the facilities we Indians enjoy – the local baniya, the chemist, the vegetable vendor, the meat man, the egg man, the bread man, Read more

October 31, 2014

I can’t believe it’s the last day of October. For fear of sounding like a stuck gramaphone record ( do you remember those vinyl discs that played at 33 1/3 RPM on turntables that normally occupied pride of place in a room?) , I still feel this year has gone by in a whirl a Read more

October 25, 2014

Fire Crackers on Diwali night

The start of a new year Last night was a big Diwali night, the first night of the start of the merchant’s commercial calendar. As a harvest festival which commemorated the start of another agrarian cycle, Diwali’s Padva is considered one of the three auspicious days where any activity can be started without checking out Read more