by Manju Gupta
Once upon a time, long long ago, there lived a maiden who felt her kitchen needed remodelling. Far from a fairytale ? Read on, it ends like one too! This wasn’t a decision taken on whim. It was something I had been deliberating for quite some time. I needed a new kitchen. The old one just didn’t work. My husband wasn’t convinced and the fact that I hardly ever cook…
Its that time of the year again. While everyone is looking forward to new beginnings I am reflecting on the time bygone.Have I wasted a precious year of my life or do I have something to show for it? It’s a habit which was inculcated in early childhood. Dad, who is a major influence, would say that the first day of the new year is not as important as…
It so happened that we had to attend a lunch at a hotel in Gurgaon and I was running late. Mercifully the traffic conditions were favorable that day and we were at the NH8 toll plaza by 3. Tardy by international standards, but in India, just fashionably late.As we swung into the drive way of the hotel I was on the phone with a friend with whom we were planning…