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Chapter ?new beginnings? We recently have had some changes. After 6 years we have moved our sons school and also moved to a different complex which has better amenities etc. this is a different environment where the kids are more polished and the crowd is more upscale. Add to the fact that both the ...

Chapter "Not counting any more" Visiting site after more than a year. Thanks for all the thanks on previous posts. Life has fallen into a pattern naturally - and a pretty decent one at that. It takes a while to get fully acclimated and get into a groove so to speak - a year or 2 sometimes. We ...

SABKA SAATH SABKA VIKAS They say a little hope is a dangerous thing. Given that the current Modi govt has kindled so many hopes and upset so many apple carts - this may prove to be true for the combustible place called India at least. Before during UPA tenure when large scale scams kept surfacing ...

GRADE INFLATION - In the past few years quite a few of our friends kids have given 10th ISCE board exams. Almost all of them have scored above 90%. The marks range anything between 92% to 95%. In our time this would have been unheard of. The cutoff percentage in some of the colleges is also ...

CULTURAL EXCHANGE In the last couple of weeks, we had 2 families visiting from the USA who spent time with us. They also have kids around the same age of mine. We spent some time with them and it was illuminating in many ways. I have to say I love the American kids. They are very well sorted, mature ...

UTTAR KASI Modernization and globalization could mean that the world resembles one giant connected city. Yet there are places which take you back to thevery heart of culture. In May we visited Uttarakhand. We embarked on what we thought would be an adventure vacation with religious connect and we ...

GHANNAN GHANNAN GHIR GHIR AAYE BHADARAAA Its raining. Two simple words but what a wealth of meaning in them!!! What a story they tell!! I have to say - one of the things I missed the most and longed for the most in OC was the sub-continental monsoon. You cannot describe it, only experience it. The ...

ORGANIC AND EVOLVING Just returned from the mother of all adventure vacations. That one deserves a separate post. For now - moving my focus to something else. To begin with - I don't think that anyone can kid themselves of the fact that kids in India will NEVER get the kind of facilities in US - for ...

Visited Jaipur, Ajmer, Pushkar in March. For all our supposed immunity to poverty and human despondency - this place really brought it home. We visited hawa mahal which has to be the most overrated monument ever - jal mahal where we were privileged to get a distant view of a floating structure ...

THE DAY ARRIVES Had a lovely meeting with fellow R2iers today and found soulmates :). May the tribe flourish...lots of posts pending on the million and one events since the last blog ...will be posting when there is time to take a breather....phew!!!! when did life get so busy!!! Cant imagine that ...