Shail's Nest

Hmmm… I wonder if I should consider confining the green salwar-kameez to the unused section of my wardrobe. Of course I have not outgrown it though at the rate at which I am growing I might do just that in the days to come. Well might you ask what then I have against this particular [...]

I woke up from my deep slumber early morning today to find I had unexpected visitors. It turned out that there was only one of them, but the impression given by that solitary guest was there were a horde of them stomping around gleefully. Now, a word about myself: I am a very hospitable person. [...]

Dear Airtel, Real friends they say are hard to come by in this world. Friends who are there for you 24×7, who stand by you in your hour of need, who patiently wait for you to return from wherever it is you have disappeared to…. Yeah they are really hard to come by. So I [...]

“I stumbled upon the net one fine day a few years back and have felt like Alice in Wonderland ever since.” – Shail Mohan. There is something about the internet that’s curiously magical and uplifting. Where else can you, at a sedate fifty, with hair beginning to gray at the temples and wrinkles making their [...]

There is an old joke doing new rounds which I came across yesterday, for the umpteenth time. ‘Why is it called mother tongue?? Because the father seldom gets to speak it.’ You found that funny, right?? I did too. Especially when I remembered the n number of times that father, husband, sons, other male relatives [...]

“Heyyyyyyy!!” A few heads looked up from the consoles being monitored. “What’s that damn thing doing on that route??!!’ screamed the HEO. More heads jerked up and looked at each other questioningly. “It is NOT supposed to be there!” The Head of Earth Operations seemed to have found an anomaly in the green blips making [...]

This post is the second and concluding part for you Kirti, as promised. Continued from the first part:  “From cycling…. ” Exactly ten years later at 39, a special someone entered my life changing it forever. Oh I was married alright and a mother twice over. What has that got to do with it anyway?? [...]

This post  is for you Kirti as promised. I was all of a very young 29 when my Lord and Master decided to teach me to ride a bicycle. I don’t remember how exactly this came about, what turn of which conversation led to this enthusiastic decision on his part. I was all for it, [...]

The Honorable Galahad Threepwood aka Gally reminds me of a friend of mine, a very close one at that. Being unsure if he would take kindly to this comparison of mine I am not taking the liberty of revealing his identity. For all I know he might on hearing it, decide to dunk me in [...]

I have always delighted in telling anyone who is interested and also those not so interested for that matter, that I am a typical Cancerian. If ever there was a loony, moody, hypersensitive, emotional human crab, which is what Linda Goodman says someone born under the sun sign of Cancer would be, yours truly is [...]