Life As I Know It

Fenny Power: Within 15 days of having become our family member Fenny took ill. Her illness went to the extent of her having to live on drips. When we got her back home the vet told us that if we felt that we would require his services he would come over irrespective of the time. When a vet tells you that, you know it is not good news. That night my brother and I took turns to stay up with Fenny. By morning we knew she had taken a turn for better. The number of injections she had to take along with the drips and all this within 45 days of having made her entry into the world. You’d think we had the toughest time trying to get her to allow us to take her to the vet to get her poked with needles. But nah, she came with us, allowed the vet to poke her, held her paw up while she was given the drip. Not once did the child wince in pain or tell us she had had enough. That’s when we knew, that in spite of being the runt of the litter she was the strongest of her siblings. In November 2009 she...

I managed to dodge Karthik calling karthik, Houseful, Badmash Company, Kites etc… I thought I’d finally managed to separate the good movies from bad. Then I saw Raajneeti. Enough said. The only reason I sat on the edge of my seat with weary anticipation watching this bizarre political drama unfold on the screen was because my friend was threatening to sneeze on me. In case you have seen Godfather based on Mario Puzo’s book (or read it) and in your childhood have had the Mahabaratha drilled into your head you may read ahead. Otherwise I’ll have to screech spoiler alert . Obviously Godfather and Mahabharatha are the two tales that inspired Prkash Jha .I don’t know what he intended to tell us with his story. All I could gather from the story is – 1. That Indian politicians are the equivalent of the Italian Mafia ( Is this Mr. PJ’s way of telling our country that this in fact has happened considering we know who is our de facto PM?) 2. Behind every successful woman is a man....