Love Is In The Air

They chewed her brain and deprived her of sleep.....
They read stories through the night.....
They wanted nothing short of her special parathas....
They groaned when the glasses of Bournvita showed up, two in a tow....
They lunged for the mangoes barely off the trees.....
They shouted, they screamed, they yakked like today was their last day......
Not once she complained.....

No surprise it was smiles all round with Masi for company....

From the Valley

In Dehra Dun with Dad, where it all began with a scooty ride:


Where he liked flashing his camera skills:

To take pictures like these:

It's time to go, but we hate goodbyes:

You Know You Are Back

From India, when:
- Your kids don your Vietnamese straw hat on their neck, then start beating it like a drum and sing the swan song "Aam le lo, kelay le lo, Pyaaz le lo, Nimbu le lo..."
- They keep opening and slamming doors and re-orient themselves to the fact that only one door holds the window to the outside world.
- When they start looking at trees and wondering why there are no aams falling off them.
- When everything comes prefaced with Aaraam Naal and ends with Nahin.
- When the search for rickshaws continues while being seated in their taxi.
- When they mercifully putting the calculus embedded in their brain cells to good use by converting dollars into rupees and telling you "Wow, that's expensive, that's a lot of rupees."
- When they start looking for coolers in their air-conditioners.
- And continue gazing into their pocket map to figure out how much more they have to travel.

Lending More Than A Hand

Went looking for the charity pictures and found these to complete the series.