Shail's Nest

Making mud-pies Chattering like magpies Under the cool shade of the mango tree Little girls in frocks You and I… When the red ants bit You cried for mother My muddy hands wiped the tears Smudging your face; we laughed You and I…. Together always in mischief and games The oil baths and meals Arms [...]

I have a roly-poly brother in law. Don’t let those eyes pop out. I am in no mortal danger for making that statement. For one he stays across the ocean in far away lands. For another I am a good year older to him and am confident that respect to elders is something that has [...]

This is a blog about those who have bitten me, at one time or the other. Yeah, you heard right! Bitten me as with teeth. And right on top of the list comes the name of my sister. You are absolutely right! The one who goes about proclaiming, she’s the one and only one I [...]

Come early morn on 19th March, there I was at the Vadodara railway station being received by my one and only sis, yes the one who bit me. Catch me foregoing a chance to mention about the time more than four decades ago when she, a two-year old bit me, her elder sis, just above [...]