Dear Yama/Chitragupta - How are you all doing? How is the temperature and weather patterns there? It has been a wild swing here so far. No one is sure how this is going to go. All we know is that it is not in the correct direction. Ennamo! Two years ago, I wrote to you about how countries are turning into regimes. Well, guess what happened south of the border - they elected Trump again! He has literally taken things into his own hands. You know how Chuchu would have reacted to this, right? Probably, would have agreed that it's all for good. Nesamani Ponnaiah! How is Chuchu mama doing? How is he shaping up? Is he eating well? Has he put on weight? What is he eating nowadays? I hope he is consuming more than a handful. Speaking of food, we've been cooking up a storm in his remembrance. Today, Praneetha made his beloved Kollu rasam - you know, the way he liked it, that perfect balance of turmeric and pepper that he would always critique until we got it just right. The potato fry w...
Each year, on or about Super Mar10 (Skanda's birthday), I write (on Facebook ) a yearly update to Stork about Skanda's progress through his age. I will be blogging as well, from now on. You'll be able to read the previous issues here . Dear Stork — A decade! Our "sapiens" (one of his favourite book - outside many others) has reached double digits. The warranty paperwork is still missing, but I'm hoping this is one of those lifetime guarantees rather than the planned obsolescence we see everywhere these days. Remember when you first delivered him with that coned head and no instruction manual? Now he's hitting milestones I can barely keep up with. The world has transformed since I last wrote. Trump has returned to the White House with policies (and reversals) even more bewildering than before. His trade wars with various countries, including Canada, have everyone on edge. I wonder if we all will make it to the end of his term! But enough about politics—thi...