I watched my brother (who was born this day in 1957) go through the seasons of boys' games....gilli danda, kabaddi, cricket, kite-flying...and the marble-playing season. I never knew when one would wane and another would take over, but the boys seemed to know ( Read more... )

As I led the birding-nature walk for the 3rd Sunday outing, we walked through the village of Jaipurdoddi, adjacent to the Jaipurdoddi Reserve Forest. Walking through such settlements gives me glimpses into lives that are so different from mine...but now and then, there are elements that formed part of my own life, too ( Read more... )

KTB had International Day at her school a while ago, and as part of the Indian display, her mother decided to display a game that she calls "guttE"

You can read about it

here The game was very popular with the children...and amazingly, some of them picked it up immediately ( Read more... )

Playing with tops is a boy's sport in India ( Read more... )

I was away in the foothills of the Himalaya, very far away (the journey from Bangalore to Guwahati alone was 2992 km, and passed through 8 states...Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Assam!) and came back with such a variety of experiences ( Read more... )

Architecture....can be just solid oblongs of colour...


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My views have changed, after my daughter wanted a traditional wedding; ( here's what I said in a comment on someone else's LJ )