What’s in a name?
Very close friends call me “Mad”. Some friends call me “Madhav”. My wife and thousands of my relatives call me “Madhu”, which means honey!
How to shock yourself to start the week?
How do you shock yourself to start the week? All of us need support from others to overcome difficult situations. Sometimes, it’s to just get up on a Monday morning. Nature Break All of us need support from others to overcome difficult situations. Sometimes, it’s to just get up on a Monday morning. This week […]
Vishu: A Gastronomic Delight
A Kerala sadya (multi course lunch) is a glorious treat, and a feast for the eyes. There is an approach in going through the process of enjoying a good sadya.
Kayaking on Big Creek
The meandering Big Creek takes you through the marshes, thick vegetation of the Carolinian forest, to the open waters close to Lake Erie on an approx. 9 km four hour paddle. For first time kayakers the experience of kayaking in Big Creek is ideal before getting into choppy waters elsewhere.
Nature’s brush strokes
The celestial dance of nature before the shimmering leaves gracefully drop down to the forest floor, be one with the earth, and sprout again with a spring in April next year.
The man and the man-eater
Our African adventure jogged a few memories. Stories about my grandfather heard in bits and pieces. Some narrated by his sons, some gleaned from his diaries I stumbled upon.
This business of marriage
Man may be incomplete until he is married. And then, he is finished!
Mistress of my soul
All these years, I had bottled up Conscience, the mistress of my soul, deep under multiple layers of fat accumulated over five decades.
I am sorry, it is cancer
Initially it was a search for answers, trying to find the strength to comfort my wife, and coming to terms with what we thought usually happened to someone else.
Sleep Clinic
Sometime in the middle of the night I woke up to a series of tremors. I felt I was standing in the middle of Grand Central Station sometime in the sixties watching the trains go by.
