Family
I sometimes joke about having been born under the poverty line to the non-Indians who I know will shrug off the comment with a laugh because it does sound preposterous, given that I am an articulate and snotty little Indian girl. I then go to other extreme and tell people
Family
I never realised how easily you fall into old habits till I found myself putting the chicken bone on my mother's plate. That has always been one of my 'thing's, along with collecting a bunchload of random factoids, reading every single scrap of paper in
Family
She looked at me with those big black eyes, accusatory in their fluidness. The question was sure to come. It was supposed to be a family dinner. The four of us were seated around a table, tucking into fish curry and rice. The conversation had been desultory till now. The
Family
The fan was creaking in the room; it was the only noise in the silence that had suddenly descended. This was the sort of silence where the participants smiled quick awkward smiles around which never meant anything special. She spent sometime looking up at the rafters of the house. The