Vasuki has written about his barber shop experiences. Reading it brought back memories of my visits to the beauty parlor. As I started to jot it down, I realized that I had a lot to narrate.
So I have divided it into three parts.
Hairy tale 1- the “Chinese cut” days
As a kid I remember visiting [...]
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Every summer holidays during school time was spent in davangere in my uncle’s house. My uncle would come down to Mysore and take me back with him .I would cry in the railway station while saying bye to my mom. I wanted to be brave so that my mom would be impressed but after 10 [...]
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Reading Vasuki’s blog on “pens” brought back so many memories and I was compelled to write this post.
Unlike most kids I did not go through a pen collecting phase.
In the convent I studied, having a good handwriting was paramount. Most people will ask you whether you are from CKC if you have [...]
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Second story on food:
Kai-tuttu
In our old house we had a big garden.In that garden we had two guava trees ,one cashew-nut tree among
many others..lot of rose shrubs..and we had two benches and right beside one of them was a paarijaatha tree.
More often than not,you would find me sitting on that bench with the fragrance [...]
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I was in 8th standard when I(along with my two other friends..let me call them A and what else..B) bunked classes to watch DDLJ..and that was when I fell hopelessly in love with LOVE!
We were three giggly girls…with this secret plan..we would sit under the school tree and plan for hours together…not even a [...]
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This is a kind of sequel to my previous scribblings…
As I grew….scribbling circles with different crayons on the walls of my room…ceased to be much fun…now I liked things to be of shape and a proper shape(my fav being an ugly house with two mountains behind it and the sun with a smiley face!).
I [...]
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As I sat looking outside the window of my bus..I grimaced!monday was back again…and it was back to work as usual:(I am not the kind of a person who wallows in self-pity(I am actually known to be irritatingly chirpy!).I gave myself a shake(mentally).. and I remembered those not-so-long-ago days…when I was just a [...]
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