Recliner Reminiscences

The eldest member of the family, usually the male, would handle the finances, acting as both the Finance Manager and the Chief Executive....

In the old days, many from my generation would have been familiar with the term Joint Stock Companies . I believe, in some countries,...

The daughter of the family was an exceptional cook, especially when it came to making chapatis—it was an art in itself. She is the only...

The youngest boy in my mama-mami’s family was a truly gifted individual, almost a wizard in some ways. He had an impeccable sense of...

Both on my mother’s and father’s side, the family wasn’t very large. It was compact, which was quite unusual for those days when large...

Sometime before we moved from Pahar Ganj, a relative's family had moved into a house at the end of our street. I have a vague memory of...

I often forget the number of the previous blog and sometimes skip a number for the next one. This has happened before, and now Sherlock...

With the help of an Advertising Company Manager, with whom I had previously worked and had a bit of a misunderstanding, I managed to...

Please take note—it’s "freak," not "freaks." As I was writing, a flood of memories about freak incidents and accidents suddenly crashed...

After we moved from the famous Pahar Ganj to a place called Vinay Nagar, I met a boy, slightly older than me, who was the leader of the...

As I mentioned, shoes seem to turn their faces in disgust when they see me. When the time came for me to wear shoes regularly, what did I...

What could you do? Nothing, really. Just wash your clothes as you normally would. The slush would leave nice designer dots on your pants,...

What a benign topic—footwear. But I decided long ago that I should write about this, and here I am, without really knowing what to pen....

The one rule I did follow was "Nor a lender be." Even if I had wanted to break that rule, I couldn’t have. When I was borrowing myself,...

Am I an exception? Hardly. When temptation meets opportunity, we often yield. Counting how many times I’ve availed of a consumer loan...

One should never be born into a middle-class family—especially the lower middle class. As the saying goes, this class gets squeezed from...

When you talk about houses, how can interior decoration be ignored? Call it decor, ambience, or energy flow—whatever name suits. But at...

Now, let’s think about music. Remember how I mentioned my younger son, while still in university, knowing my craze for stereos, got me a...

Does this stop with just houses? Definitely not. Old is gold, but new is sold. For us old-timers, there’s an attachment to tradition,...

Let’s talk about the most important part—flooring. Starting with mosaic, we’ve now moved to vitrified tiles, Italian tiles, and so on....