We’ve been having strange weather in Bombay the last two weeks. It’s blazing hot, dry heat during the day – 36 degrees and above (yesterday it was nearly 40 degrees and it feels like 43 degrees today) – but night temps have been as much as 20 degrees lower. Read more

After WEEKS of waiting for a monsoon that appeared to be hanging out in other places instead of Bombay where it was meant (according to various reports, the monsoon was in a: Kerala, b: Amsterdam, c: Edinburgh, d: North East India), it finally arrived at 4.31 am this morning. Read more

Last night, I used my quilt again.*

Hooray!

That’s because it rained for the last two days, and the temperature has come down considerably. Read more

All right, where is it?

Whoever’s got it, kindly hand it over right away, because I am SERIOUSLY running out of patience.

After all, I’ve been prepared for it since last week – the change of clothes is in place in my office locker, the holes in my house have been M-sealed, the mandatory ‘be prepared’ story has been done in the Mumbai edition of Brunch, Read more

 

I’m spring cleaning (high summer cleaning? Pre-monsoon cleaning?) my flat in preparation for a visit from my parents and all I can think about after a scour of various cabinets is – why on EARTH do I have so many plastic pouches from Kingfisher Airlines? What made me keep them? What made me TAKE them off the plane in the first place? What did I THINK I was going to do with them? Read more